the histo0ry of roses?

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Well, how odd that you have not gotten any response at all. You left this so open-ended, I guess.

You know that the rose is very ancient, because it has been used as a symbol for so very long. The history of roses in America has one interesting twist I will offer: basement roses. When a person would put roses by their cottage or cabin, they would often outlive the cottage itself. Especially if the place had a basement (really just a crawl space under the cabin, used for storage), so that water would collect in the hole and be available to the deeper roots of the roses by the door. The door would be long gone, but the roses just went wild. Feral, if you will.

In the trek westward, many a home left roses. And if you go there now, they may be growing still. Maybe there will be a fragment of wall or an old wagon wheel, and there are the roses, doing their own thing. Lovely antique varieties.

Hybrids are what most people think of when they think of roses, because that's what's used by the florists when they make up a commercial bouquet. But those lovely old cabin hole roses are antiques that can tell you what a rose was when the wagons went west.