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June is National Rose Month and before the month goes to seed, let's put on those rose-colored glasses and investigate the various roses in our lexical garden.

Botanists count more than one hundred species and thirteen thousand varieties of the beautiful and fragrant rose. Shakespeare asserted that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but we'd bet that, given a choice, most people would choose a brier rose over dog rose, (at least until they found out that those are two different names for the same European wild rose).

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