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| | What Old Rose is This? - by Mrs. Frederick L. Keays, 1943 American Rose Annual (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Roses are generally classified as woody shrubs, and as such are largely deciduous, although a few are evergreen in favorable climates. |
 | | Roses may bloom from the tips of basal shoots, as Tea roses do; from laterals (side shoots from the main stalk) as climbing roses do; or from a third growth breaking out from the laterals, as the brier roses do. |
 | | The hips of China roses are never depressed, are often variable, and are more or less sloping into the peduncle, while the hips of Tea roses are brusquely globe-shaped at the base, glabrous and glaucous, on a thicker peduncle, often jointed, and itself glabrous or a little glandulous. |
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