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TEA ROSE MADEMOISELLE CECILE BERTHOD. 



WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 



|UR illustration of this pretty new Tea Rose is drawn from a specimen 

 furuislied from tlie collection of Mr. W. Paul, at Waltliam Cross. The 

 variety has been shown at some of the Spring metropolitan exhibitions, 

 and won a First-class Certificate, being, as we think, very deservedly 

 rewarded. The rose is of good free habit, blooming abundantly, and the 

 flowers are large and full, of a fine pure sulphur-yellow colour, the backs of the 

 petals being almost white. Our collections of Tea Eoses have received some 

 very useful accessions during the last year or two, and amongst the novelties thus 

 obtained we believe the variety now figured will be found to hold a foremost 

 place, and will not disappoint those who cultivate it. — T. M. 



ROSES AND ROSE-CULTURE. 

 Chapter XVII. — Old Eoses.* 

 ' LD Eoses ! how charming the sound ! what pleasing associations are bound 

 up in those words ! At memory's bidding, hundreds of almost forgotten 

 favourites slowly emerge from the dim haze of the past, conjuring up 

 T^ \asions of pleasant scenes, and awaking joyous reminiscences. Kind old 

 friends, now sleeping beneath the clods of the valley, revisit us in the pleasures 

 of memory, and discuss with us the properties and merits of the respective 

 flowers. It is surely good to cultivate flowers in early life, if only for the sake of 

 the retrospect. As we look backward, so much that is fresh and bright — may 

 we not add, even endearing ?— still hovers around those idols of the past. Yes, 

 the remembrance of those familiar old flowers is sacred and indelible ; their 

 sweetness and beauty fancifully exaggerated a thousandfold by the talismanic 

 touch of youthful associations. Is it, then, to be wondered at that we should love 

 these old favourites, cherish them, plead for them, nay, if needs be, zealously 

 fight for them, against the ceaseless innovations of modern times ? But in this 

 battle let us take heed lest we degenerate into mere party combatants ; let us not 

 lose sight of truth, but remember that this is a world of progress, as well as of 

 change. 



It is now more than four hundred years since the Red Rose and the White 

 Rose were made famous in history as badges of the contending factions of York 

 and Lancaster, and we find in the oldest books on gardening a place of honour 

 assigned to the Rose. John Parkinson, in The Garden of Pleasant Flowers, 

 published in 1G29, devotes ten pages of a folio volume to its description. He 

 tells us that he has " thirty sorts at the least, every one notably differing from 

 the other," exclusive of wild sorts having "no beautie or smell." From the 

 article on Roses in the seventh edition of Miller's Gardener's Dictionary^ pub- 

 lished in 1759, we should infer that little improvement had taken place in this 



* This chapter on Old Eoses was written originally for the Rose Annual, but as that work is nearly 

 out of print, and will not be reprinted, the writer has thought it desirable to include it in the present series. 



3ed series. — VI. H 



