. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Emblem of Queen Mary ofEngland. 33^ Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday ing, gentle flower, but one fit to be associated withthe history of wars. The Rose we here call York andLancaster was called Rose versicolorby Parkinson in his Paradius in Sole,Paradisus Terrestris — A Garden ofall Sorts of Pleasant Flowers. founded a Parkinson Societyto promote a love of old-fashionedflowers; but Parkinsons book istoo rare to be of influence I inquired through


. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Emblem of Queen Mary ofEngland. 33^ Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday ing, gentle flower, but one fit to be associated withthe history of wars. The Rose we here call York andLancaster was called Rose versicolorby Parkinson in his Paradius in Sole,Paradisus Terrestris — A Garden ofall Sorts of Pleasant Flowers. founded a Parkinson Societyto promote a love of old-fashionedflowers; but Parkinsons book istoo rare to be of influence I inquired throughout ourpublic libraries in 1901, not a copywas to be found in America. For-tunately I secured for my daugh-ters collection of old herbals and flower-books,begun when she was a little girl, a copy of Parkin-sons Paradisus in Sole in the first edition, and theconstant reference to it and Gerardes Herball (thesecond edition) have been an infinite pleasure to would I could quote Parkinsons words in fullupon the York and Lancaster Rose 1. Emblem ofJames I of England. CHAPTER XVI OUR GRANDMOTHERS ROSES


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