. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Emblem ofJames I of England. CHAPTER XVI OUR GRANDMOTHERS ROSES. ** To be chronicled, and chronicled, and cut and chronicled, andall-tO-be-praised. — Worthies of England. Thomas Fuller. WO Rose-books are to meabsolute authority for Rose-knowledge of one hundredyears ago, ere the Rose-treas-ures of China were lavishedon our gardens. One is Mil-lers Gardener s and Botanisf sDictionary^ London, four volumes are of greatweight, literally, being nearlynineteen i
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Emblem ofJames I of England. CHAPTER XVI OUR GRANDMOTHERS ROSES. ** To be chronicled, and chronicled, and cut and chronicled, andall-tO-be-praised. — Worthies of England. Thomas Fuller. WO Rose-books are to meabsolute authority for Rose-knowledge of one hundredyears ago, ere the Rose-treas-ures of China were lavishedon our gardens. One is Mil-lers Gardener s and Botanisf sDictionary^ London, four volumes are of greatweight, literally, being nearlynineteen inches in height. I think this vast size andweight has kept them from frequent consultation,hence the perfect condition of the lovely binding. Itis a splendid work, so temperate and lucid in descrip-tion; in it forty species of Roses are given with thedifferent varieties of each — about two hundred in second book is beloved of all Rose-lovers, LesRoses par P. J. Redoute. Two of the illustrationsare reproduced, but colorless, on pages 2S2 ^^^ 354*At first sight of the exquisite Roses which bloom onthese pages they seem to be hand colored by some 333 334 Sun-dials and Roses of Ye
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