how does one identify roses? i've been looking at pictures and descriptions on the net and this one looks most like the one i've got, but i can't be certain and am hampered additionally by ignorance about different kinds of roses - modern and ancient, pre- and post- chinese influence, rambler or climber or shrub, wild or cultivated, before or after 1950, hybrid or not ... all i can tell is that our flowers are definitely double-petalled, and that the blooms are about the size that this description mentions, and the colour looks about right, but with only these vague characteristics i imagine many others fit the bill. as i ponder this problem there arrived in my mind an utterly tangential thought of remote applicability: if anyone in the family got married we could provide our own corsages.