From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).

From Queen Nature's Fairy Helpers by Alice Edgerton, 1921.

From Ethos, 1964.

From the Innis Herald, 1990.

From Hyde Park's 1895 yearbook.

From Roses and Other Plants Seeds, 1888.  (Thanks for the tip from Clawmarks.)

Great news -- "Life's a bed of roses!"  From The Film Daily, 1941.

From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.

From Woroni, 1991.

In our experience, there's so little that a little cleansing oil and a crystal rose can't solve.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.

From the Estherian Literary Society's 1914 yearbook.

Last we checked, the hardcover of this one was approaching a thousand dollars: A Queer Kind of Death by George Baxt, 1966.

A rose is a rose, unless a daisy is a rose.  On the cover of this manual, we see a field of white squares and a single red one, as if all the other roses in the garden were changed into daisies.

From Visual Machine /System Product Editor User's Guide, Release 6, 1988.

A rose is a peacock feather.  From Rosa Amorosa by George Egerton, 1901.

From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.

"So they followed the rose past the pretty houses of the flowers."  From The Wonderful Land of Up by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by Neely McCoy, 1918.

"The Skull and the Rose."  From The Singing Mouse Stories by Emerson Hough, 1910.

"What a lovely thing a rose is."  From The Strand (1893).