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EARLY WILD ROSE. 
The leaves of rosa blanda are pale underneath; leaflets five to 
seven; flowers blush-pink ; stem not very prickly; fruit red and 
round ; the bush from one to three feet in height. 
Another of our dwarf wild roses, R. lucida , is widely diffused over 
Canada; it is found on all open plain-lands, but shuns the deep shade 
of the forest. 
The bark of this wild rose is of a bright red, and the young wood 
is armed with bristly prickles of a greyish colour. When growing in 
shade, the half opened flowers and buds are of a deep pink or car¬ 
mine, but where more exposed in sunny spots, the petals fade to a 
pale blush-colour. This shrub becomes somewhat troublesome if 
encouraged in the garden, from the running roots which send up many 
shoots. In its wild state the dwarf rose seldom exceeds three feet 
in height; it is the second and older wood that bears the flowers ; the 
flower bearing branches become almost smooth or only remotely 
thorny. The leaflets vary in number from five to nine; they are 
sharply serrated at the edges, and smooth on the surface ; the globu¬ 
lar scarlet fruit is flattened at the eye ; of a pleasant sub-acid taste. 
This beautiful red-barked rose grows in great profusion on the 
huckleberry plains above Rice Lake, clothing large tracts of hill and 
dale, and scenting the evening air at dew-fall with its delicate fra- 
grance. 
There is, or used to be, a delicate pale flowered briar rose, having 
small foliage and numerous blossoms of a low branching habit grow¬ 
ing in the high oak-hills in the township of Rawdon. I have never 
seen the flowers myself, but have heard the plant described as a rare 
species. The Swamp Rose, Rosa Carolina , is not uncommon • it is 
