. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . w arenot our Purple and Black Roses. Curiously enough,the poorest to my mind of all, the Striped Provins,still are grown in England, among them RedoutesGros Provins Panachees and Gallica versicolor; thisis called by Redoute the Rosamond. Our Grandmothers Roses 343 The Rosa lucida is the Rose called in Englandby the pretty name Rose damour. This is atrue American Rose, a native. I have seen itgrowing this sum- mer many times,and a very cheer-ful bush it is,with its
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . w arenot our Purple and Black Roses. Curiously enough,the poorest to my mind of all, the Striped Provins,still are grown in England, among them RedoutesGros Provins Panachees and Gallica versicolor; thisis called by Redoute the Rosamond. Our Grandmothers Roses 343 The Rosa lucida is the Rose called in Englandby the pretty name Rose damour. This is atrue American Rose, a native. I have seen itgrowing this sum- mer many times,and a very cheer-ful bush it is,with its shiny,glossy leaves turn-ing a gay lightyellow, with somecrimson red inautumn, and bear-ing many odd flat-tened hips. Ingardens its floweris sometimesdouble and some-times single, witha few inner half-rays of petalswithin the perfectrow. It is a verydiflerent pinkfrom the ProvenceRose or CabbageRose, — a redderpink, — and hasnot the beautiful fragrance ; in fact, it is one of thefew Roses whose scent is distinctly distasteful. The only truly American roses seen universallyin our gardens are the beautiful climbing Prairie. Baltimore Belle. 344 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday Roses [Rosa rubifolid). These were originally anative of Michigan and other Western states ; andthe clear pink single variety, known as the MichiganRose, still is grown, and an arch of it is a perfectthing. About 1836 the Feast brothers, florists inBaltimore, developed this Rose, and gave to us thebeautiful Baltimore Belle, the Queen of the Prairie,Anna Maria, and Gem of the Prairies, which last isslightly scented sometimes,— not always, I find. These all have large rough dark-green leaves offive to seven leaflets. They are the hardiest climbersknown, and are far more rapid in growth than theAyrshire Roses. And they come, too, when manyother summer Roses are gone, when the Hundred-leaved Rose and the York and Lancaster are are not so delicate as the climbing Tea-Roses,but they are more ge
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