. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . herine Mermet, but richer,and of finer foliage, and colored beyond all other Roses, noteven excepting Gloire de Dijon. It is hardy in Tennessee;here in New York I dare say it would not live out. Oldbushes give the best flowers, and those which opened onthe very edge of the forest were always finest of all. Theheart was variable but generally creamy pink with goldensuffusions. The outer petals run between deep red bronzeand copper-yellow. It was, I think, one of the
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . herine Mermet, but richer,and of finer foliage, and colored beyond all other Roses, noteven excepting Gloire de Dijon. It is hardy in Tennessee;here in New York I dare say it would not live out. Oldbushes give the best flowers, and those which opened onthe very edge of the forest were always finest of all. Theheart was variable but generally creamy pink with goldensuffusions. The outer petals run between deep red bronzeand copper-yellow. It was, I think, one of the earliesthigh-colored Teas perfected. It grew rampantly, and hadso much red blood that the leaves and flowers at firstunfolding were almost as high-colored as the flowers. Itis my Rose of Roses. One great question must be ever in a Rose garden,— whether to plant only Roses, or to cover theground with some low-blossoming plant, or somegreenery? One friend has planted under everyRose-bush blue Tansies. Some were very pale blue,some a cheerful dark blue, but a pure sapphire colorprevailed; as the Roses in bloom when I visited. co c S-i o o e o X o E oo II co I co c i- > c :3o cO oDC Our Grandmothers Roses ^^6^ this garden were nearly all yellow tinted Tea-Roses,this garden seemed to me in perfect taste. My sisterhas the best cover-ground I know in the firstyears growth of Adlumia, what we always calledVirgins Bower. It is as graceful as Maiden HairFern and crowds her garden. I saw a Rose garden last June at the country houseof a friend, — a house which had been the homesteadfor a hundred and fifty years, when the question ofplanting had been solved with little planning orpondering. It was simply a narrow bed around theedge of the semicircular brick wall of a little walledgarden or recess ; on it were trained Seven SistersRoses, and all the varied pinkness of Prairie the beds blossomed only the few Roses of ourgrandmothers, and oh! the inefi^able fragrance!Damask Ro
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