"But, on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose bush, covered in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to off their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went it, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him."
I think the rose bush is trying to represent that their is hope and salvation even in the darkest places. Hawthorne says it offers it's delicate gems to the prisoner as he went in and the condemned criminal as he came forth his doom.
The rose bush has been kept alive even after the fall of the gigantic pines and it being overshadowed by the oak. Hawthorne uses an allusion to Ann Hutchinson. She was a strong women that stuck with her beliefs. She was accused of antinomianism, so she was abolished from Massachusetts Bay Colony. Then she moved to Rhode Island and was the first women to establish a town in America. The rose is compared to her because no matter what it went through it still stuck out and stayed strong.
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