LETTER X 



Names of Roses Old- Fashioned Names Snobbishness of Modern 

 Nomenclature " Florists' Flowers" Open Roses China 

 Roses Plants about Roses Thick Planting in a Border 

 Example of Lavender. 



DEAR MARCO I was gathering some roses 

 the other day, to send to a friend in town, 

 my little girl Lyclia was helping me, I re- 

 gretted to her how few white ones there were 

 in the garden, but I remembered that I had 

 just received a present of two nice roots of a 

 rose called " La Reine Blanche," whereupon 

 Lydia wanted to know why they so often 

 give roses French names. It is not a very 

 easy question to answer. All the roses with 

 Erench names were not originated in France, 



