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their memory lives on, after we have passed 
away, just as the petals of real roses, even 
though withered and dead, retain 
All the fragrance of summer, 
When summer is gone. 
Moore. 
As the rose is the emblem of England, it 
must be specially dear to every English child. 
The only kinds which grow wild in Great 
Britain are the single dog-roses, pink and 
white, and the sweet-briar. The many large 
double roses with which we are now so familiar 
have all come from abroad, most of them 
having been brought from China, and from far 
away in Eastern Asia, during the last hundred 
years. Long ago in England a few double 
ones were grown in the old-fashioned stiff-walled 
gardens, and they were very highly prized, such 
as the damask, the Provence, and the moss rose. 
The poets of olden time—Chaucer, Spenser, and 
Shakespeare—often sang of their beauty, for 
said Chaucer— 
I love well sweet roses red. 
A quaint survival of the time when roses 
were the badge of the two contending parties 
in England, during the civil wars, is the striped 
red and white York and Lancaster rose. The 
