Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker - Wild Rose Flower Fairy

Wild Rose

Rosa acicularis
The wild rose is deciduous, flowering shrub about 4' with alternate leaves with five to nine leaflets. Its stems usually covered with slender, straight bristles or prickles. The roots are fine, in the upper 8" of soil, with deep roots to 55". Wild rose flowers are pink or rose-colored with numerous stamens, borne singly on lateral branches. The fruit is small fleshy, red or orange-red hip, each 0.15 to 0.2" long with stiff hairs along one side.

Native Americans made medicinal tea from wild roses which was used as a remedy for diarrhea and stomach maladies. They sometimes smoked the inner bark. The Crow used a solution made by boiling rose roots in a compress to reduce swelling. The same solution was drunk for mouth bleeding and gargled as a remedy for tonsillitis and sore throats; vapor from this solution was inhaled for nose bleeding.

Uses: Attractive ornamentals but need careful pruning.
Juice extracted from hips by boiling and used to make jellies and syrups. Pulp from the hips, after seeds and skins are removed, used to make jams, marmalades, and catsup. Other juice or fruit is sometimes added for flavoring.
Rose hips may be preserved by drying and then ground into a powder that may be added to baked goods.
Green hips can be peeled and cooked, and young shoots have been eaten as a potherb.
Leaves, flowers, and buds can be used to make tea; teas made from flowers and buds may relieve diarrhea. Flower petals are also sometimes eaten raw and may be used for perfume.
Hips are high in vitamin A and and are a winter source of vitamin C.

Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker - Wild Rose Flower Fairy

I am the queen whom everybody knows: I am the English Rose; As light and free as any Jenny Wren, As dear to Englishmen; As joyous as a Robin Redbreast's tune, I scent the air of June; My buds are rosy as a baby's cheek; I have one word to speak, One word which is my secret and my song, 'Tis "England, England England" all day long.
	Wild Rose Rosa acicularis The wild rose is deciduous, flowering shrub about 4' with alternate leaves with five to nine leaflets. Its stems usually covered with slender, straight bristles or prickles. The roots are fine, in the upper 8" of soil, with deep roots to 55". Wild rose flowers are pink or rose-colored with numerous stamens, borne singly on lateral branches. The fruit is small fleshy, red or orange-red hip, each 0.15 to 0.2" long with stiff hairs along one side. Native Americans made medicinal tea from wild roses which was used as a remedy for diarrhea and stomach maladies. They sometimes smoked the inner bark. The Crow used a solution made by boiling rose roots in a compress to reduce swelling. The same solution was drunk for mouth bleeding and gargled as a remedy for tonsillitis and sore throats; vapor from this solution was inhaled for nose bleeding. Uses: Attractive ornamentals but need careful pruning. Juice extracted from hips by boiling and used to make jellies and syrups. Pulp from the hips, after seeds and skins are removed, used to make jams, marmalades, and catsup. Other juice or fruit is sometimes added for flavoring. Rose hips may be preserved by drying and then ground into a powder that may be added to baked goods. Green hips can be peeled and cooked, and young shoots have been eaten as a potherb. Leaves, flowers, and buds can be used to make tea; teas made from flowers and buds may relieve diarrhea. Flower petals are also sometimes eaten raw and may be used for perfume. Hips are high in vitamin A and and are a winter source of vitamin C.