[ANSTHRLD] Since I have seen it...

[tmcd at panix.com]

A "garden rose' is not a "a rose with a stem and a couple of leaves".
That's a rose slipped and leaved.

A (heraldic) rose is a stylized flower, usually but not always with
five petals.  A garden rose is a naturall-looking modern rose, with
lots of petals.  Garden roses are unknown to period heraldry
(so far as we have ever seen), and we currently registere them
blazoned as "roses".  A garden rosebud (a modern rosebud) is
(so far as we know) two steps from period practice and is now
unregisterable.

Daniel de Lincolia
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Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com; tmcd at us.ibm.com is my work address