. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. arise in the mind after witnessing thedevoted homage given to the Rose by all poets fromHafiz and Ferdousi to Swinburne. The last-namedpoet is as lavish in his praise of white Roses and redas any Persian poet. Not being able to read Hafizor Ferdousi in their own language it is not easyto realise their poetry, but the worship of theRose by them is unmistakable, and the source oftheir verses seems in a great part to be the Rose. InEngland we cannot connect the nightingale with theRose, as he will not s
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. arise in the mind after witnessing thedevoted homage given to the Rose by all poets fromHafiz and Ferdousi to Swinburne. The last-namedpoet is as lavish in his praise of white Roses and redas any Persian poet. Not being able to read Hafizor Ferdousi in their own language it is not easyto realise their poetry, but the worship of theRose by them is unmistakable, and the source oftheir verses seems in a great part to be the Rose. InEngland we cannot connect the nightingale with theRose, as he will not sing in our climate when the Roseblooms: it is perhaps different in Persia. I am, how beauty of the landscape inmany Gooseberry bushes,must have been extensivespeculator having, it wasmanufacture of attar. St,H^hed in 1845, and it is athe many recent travellersto these Rose gardens, but any greater degree than sobut the cultivation therein his time, one Europeansaid, 30,000 acres for the:. Johns travels were pub-little singular that none ofin Egypt have ever alludedfrom the sameness of the. Fig. I.—MARCGRAVIA PARADOXA. Showing cells and stomata. from under adpressed surface ofleaf, and peculiar irregular hairs. colour there can be little poetry in the prospect. Myown recollections of the Rose gardens of France,another classical Rose division of our planet, are gene-rally associated with a hot ride in a ricketty third-class carriage, a tramp over fields knee-deep in dust,an interview with a sunburnt genial and enthusiastccultivator, whose energies are devoted to pointing outthe beauties of a seedling or seedlings which he isanxious to introduce to the English Rose speculator,receiving in return a substantial share of the wealthsupposed to exist everywhere in England—the Rosesbeing intermixed with crops of Wheat, Hemp,Poppies, and agricultural products generally, and the a romantic shadow to the garden in the evening andshade from the sun at noonday, a greensward with astream
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