"Everything a rose will ever need for absolute perfection, God has has provided in air, earth and possible nurture, and God put somewhere into the seed the possibility of its becoming. So God sets in our world the simple beauty of the wild rose and the glory of the cultivated rose, that we may come to realize that our own souls, and our own lives are designed for equal transformation. As we work among our roses, let us never rest content until we know in our own selves some such transformation as that of the rose."
-- The Reverend Milton S. Kanaga
Vicar, St. Hubert's Chapel, Kirtland Hills, Ohio
1951 American Rose Annual