The picture above is a rosebush in one of our beds on the neighbor's side of the house. This is from Orchard and Garden: A Guidebook for Beginners, by Benjamin Wallace Douglass (1918):
"Flowers help to make life worth the living, and anything which helps bring this condition about has what we may call a money value. Some people can understand a subject only when it is presented to them in terms of cash. They eat their food by the calorie and do not realize the wealth they miss in the beauty of life around them. And yet even such as these will pay more for a house that has some trees around it, some flowers in the door yard and a vine over the entrance, than they would for a house that stood bare and unattractive. They are paying their hard cash for beauty-for flowers- but they probably never thought of it in just that way."
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