Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16

of their follicles were increased or their
banks became covered with soft silky
threads which constituted kind of a
garment.
Furthermore. their dispersion was rem
tached along the wall of the fruit so that
they became more easily detached.
Roses thus improved became known as
he clothed" One Of the most interest
ng Of this group of roses is the Rosa
ericea, discovered by the great botanis.
4indley. and found originally in the
iimalayas and Tibet; it's clothing" of
llky threads, which in the young con-
lllon are red and are interspersed with
arge winged thorns, its leaves, like MIN
osa, and its flower, which is the only
ose with four petals. make it quite a dis
met and remarkable type
The next variety is the .ThornIess ="
The seeds of the rose trees, waited FIR
ma wide on the breeze, sprang up in
Countries where the air was more
strengthening and less rude and under
hese happier conditiorA of life the roses
gradually dropped their needles and their
ilky coverings and pushed out toward
less devoid of thornS. Their dispersion
vas again rendered easier by the ar
ahSement of the seeds along the sides
If the fruit.
lhen roses grew i'm mountainous re-
Sions; but We next find the variety Of
horned rose proper. They grew in the
'lalns which We're covered with forests
INA, having come i'm contact with this
uXurlant vegetation, they tried to at
-ach themselves to It,; their branches he
anne crooked and covered with sharp
horns; In fine. they now resembled the
Common roses of our hedge rows and
plains today
Another variety of the rose is thar
which in ancient times reached places OF
higher temperature which thickenao
he superior wall of their leaves ana ran
Tered them soft and brilliant. 50 as n
'''i,'''iSh 'helr surface of evaporation and
MANI '"eih more resisting to the suns
'c'ioi'' theE became- at the same time
more vinelike
Flhany those which reached countries
whose climates were tempered nv tbo
sea bfeezes We're able to develop at thi,
case they pushed out long tendrils lie
vines, which clambered and climbed nm
declivities and rocks. Their sole \obiect
I'll HE being to perpetuate themselves
ana make the perfectionments which thew
nad acquired so laboriously more durable
Crossing with other varieties .became
easier; their hitherto closed up pistis
opened out, so that it was EASY for tho
wlnd to carry the pollen and TINS ,p;x
tbo
ihis last variety of roses, which is the
one so much admired today, is known IS
the perfect-organed roses.
rms brief enumeration of the different
types of roses covers a range of over
ninety different species of rose trees.
The rose was distinguished from other
flowers at very early age and by most
Oh the aicient races of Asia, with the ex-
ception of the Assyrians and the He
orews, who seem only to have spoken of3
It after the advent of the Grecian inau- |
ence. Similarly the Egyptian records |
have no traces of it before the time of |
he conquest of Alexander
The cult of the rose in the East was
rom the first surrounded by legend. The
sacred books of the Parsees explain that
he rose was born without thorns, and
vas only armed after the appearance Of |
he genius of evil on earth
The two earliest roses known by name
the Rose Of the Magis and the Rose of
he Chaldeans-were identified from the
lend-Avesta, which has reported the ira
litions of these ancient peoples.
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