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HE highest horticultural achievement of Nature 
and man is unquestionably the Rose. So great 
has the love of this flower grown that a great 
literature has sprung up from it, and a great industry. 
Many associations and societies have been formed for 
the purpose of studying the Rose, of publishing the 
facts concerning it. 
It is beyond the province of this book to cover the 
large field occupied by all the forms and phases of this 
flower, but it should call attention to that. group which 
justly belongs to the flowering shrubs. In this group is 
all the loveliness and delicacy that a flower can express. 
The wild Rose stirs fragrant memories and arouses sweet 
and happy emotions. There is no reason why we should 
not enjoy the companionship of these simple, beautiful 
species as well as that of their more cultivated, pampered 
sisters of the Rose-garden. 
