. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . resentation on page 332proves his badge a very pretty one. On the coins struck for the coronation of CharlesI, 1633, was a great Thistle with the motto : Heregrow our Roses. QueenAnne had on her seal a Roseand Thistle springing fromthe same stem, and themotto, Concordes. The pres-ent royal badges were settledin 1801, and that of Englandis a white Rose within thered Rose. Thus has theRose felt the very heart-beat of English history. May we not, then, in therecollect
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . resentation on page 332proves his badge a very pretty one. On the coins struck for the coronation of CharlesI, 1633, was a great Thistle with the motto : Heregrow our Roses. QueenAnne had on her seal a Roseand Thistle springing fromthe same stem, and themotto, Concordes. The pres-ent royal badges were settledin 1801, and that of Englandis a white Rose within thered Rose. Thus has theRose felt the very heart-beat of English history. May we not, then, in therecollection of all this alliedRose history, glow with the pleasure of retrospectionallied to present gratification in the sight of a beau-tiful York and Lancaster Rose ? This storied Rosehas been pushed aside for many years by the hybridperpetual Roses; but now that the love for old-fashioned flowers has risen with such force, it isagain offered for sale, and promises to have muchpopularity. It is a brave creature, having a clean-cut, bold striping, and mingling of pure white andbright red. It is sturdy, too, in growth, not a cling-. 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 wor
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