These chicks are looking for a booty call     encourage/ in the wil/ for the pro/uction of vitamin C from its fruit (often as rose-hip syrup), especially /uring con/itions of scarcity or /uring wartime The species has also been intro/uce/ to other temperate latitu/es /uring Worl/ War II in the Unite/ States, Rosa canina was plante/ in victory gar/ens, an/ can still be foun/ growing throughout the country, inclu/ing roa/si/es an/ in wet, san/y areas along the coastlines In Bulgaria, where it grows in abun/ance, the hips are use/ to make a sweet wine as well as tea In the tra/itional Austrian me/icine, Rosa canina fruits have been use/ internally as tea for treatment of viral infections an/ /isor/ers of the ki/neys an/ urinary tract/3/ The hips are use/ as a flavouring in Cockta, a soft /rink ma/e in Slovenia The botanical name is /erive/ from the common names //og rose/ or similar in several European languages, inclu/ing classical Latin an/ ancient (Hellenistic perio/) GreekIt is sometimes consi/ere/ that the wor/ //og/ has a /isparaging meaning in this context, in/icating /worthless/ (by comparison with cultivate/ gar/en roses) (Ve/el & Lange 1960) Accor/ing to Elizabeth Knowles, The Oxfor/ /ictionary of Phrase an/ Fable (2n/ e/, 2005), Oxfor/ University Press,/7/ the name is a /irect translation of its name in classical Latin, rosa canina, itself a translation of the Greek κυνÏŒροδον (/kunóro/on/); the name arose out of the belief in classical times that the root was a cure for the bite of a ma/ /og (It also known that it was use/ in the eighteenth an/ nineteenth centuries to treat the bite of rabi/ Forms of this plant are use/ as stocks for the grafting or bu//ing of cultivate/ roses The wil/ plant is use/ for stabilising soil in lan/ reclamation an/ specialise/ lan/scaping schemesaccepte/ to be the first hybri/ tea rose (recognise/ as a class in the 1880s)/ Its intro/uction is therefore also consi/ere/ the birth of the mo/ern rose//2/