OLD GARDEN ROSES 13 



pretty things, they are of less value in the garden 

 than the striped Damask Rosa Mundi. But there is 

 an old garden Rose, the Blush gallica, much more 

 double, and that grows into very strong bushes, that 

 is a good Rose for all gardens. It will put up 

 with any treatment. I have it on the top of a dry 

 wall where it tumbles over in the prettiest way and 

 blooms even more freely than the bushes on the 

 level. 



These two names, Provence and Provins, for two 

 classes of garden Roses of the same kind of growth 

 and use, are so much alike that they are one of the 

 puzzles that the Rose amateur has to get clear in 

 his mind in the earlier stages of his education. 

 Provence is the Cabbage Rose {R. centifolia) \ Provins 

 is Rosa gallica, the garden kinds being mostly striped ; 

 pretty, but not of the first importance ; the best as 

 far as my own knowledge and judgment go being 

 Reine Blanche (if it be a true gallica^ and the full 

 double Blush gallica. 



Near the Provence Rose, in sentiment as well as in 

 a sort of natural garden classification, comes the 

 Damask, charming also with its delicious though 

 fainter scent and its wide-open crimson flowers. 

 The Damask Rose, with some of the older Gallicas, 

 may be considered the ancestors of many of our 

 modern Roses, and though there is no record of 

 the earlier pedigrees, those who are old enough to 

 remember some of the first Hybrid Perpetuals will 

 retain the recollection of some Roses such as Lee's 

 Perpetual in which such parentage, probably passing 



