. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . ome, hardy flowers,and some of them very delicate and exquisite flowers. Our Grandmothers Roses 335 I have had a great deal of happiness this weekin going through the pages of Redoute in companywith Miss Jekylls and Mr. Mawleys Roses for Eng-lish Gardens^ which has just come to me. A photo-graph does not convey a good idea of the personaUtyof a Rose; with the distinguishing color gone, acurious sameness appears. I have seen an experi-enced Rosarian sit puzzling ove
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . ome, hardy flowers,and some of them very delicate and exquisite flowers. Our Grandmothers Roses 335 I have had a great deal of happiness this weekin going through the pages of Redoute in companywith Miss Jekylls and Mr. Mawleys Roses for Eng-lish Gardens^ which has just come to me. A photo-graph does not convey a good idea of the personaUtyof a Rose; with the distinguishing color gone, acurious sameness appears. I have seen an experi-enced Rosarian sit puzzling over a photograph ofa Rose-bush,where the leavesand stems werenot very plainlyshown, and thepictured flowerswere small,hesitating overthe correctnaming of thephotographedRose. Andworse still, butamusing, alover of Roseshad last sum-mer aboutforty-five pho-tographs taken ^^^^ ^°^^-of Roses intending them for lantern-slides to useto illustrate a carefully studied lecture on GardenRoses which he was to deliver before a very intel-lectual audience. Three or four weeks elapsed erethe pictures came to him ; and then, to his chagrin,. ^^6 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday he found he could not use half of them ; for whenthere was no tell-tale attribute, such as a neighbor-ing stick, a known grouping, or some unusual dis-tinction of stem or foliage, as has the Burnet-leavedRose, he could not positively name his Roses. I wonder if this simple picture of a Rose in bloom(page 23 S) ^^^^ convey to any gentle reader whoglances at it in the winter months when this book willbe seen by that readers eyes, any of the pleasure ofreminiscence of the old-time garden which the photo-graph brought to me when I first saw it on a bitterday in March. I had not in it the carmine color,but I had the precise shape of a Rose I loved, thefirst Rose of summer, the June Rose, which mightalmost be the May Rose, since it has laughedoutright with its cheerful glowing blossoms, andbecome silent and grown all green ag
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