Various roses grow along the sidewalk southwest of the Farmhouse.
Roses have been popular
plants since antiquity. They were much valued then, as now, for their blooms,
fragrance, and attractive forms. They are generally bushes, or sometimes
take on a semi-climbing habit by producing very long canes. Mostly native
to the Northern Hemisphere, the limits of various species' range is, however,
difficult to establish because the species so readily hybridize and have
been so widely planted. Roses are used in landscaping as specimens, masses,
screens, ground cover and hedges. The wild rose species are the easiest
to cultivate, growing in most moist soils (except wet, acid soil) and require
little pruning once established.
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