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numbers of them have been bred in England. 

 I rather think it is because we English have 

 not sufficient poetry or imagination to give 

 pretty names to our nice things ; so we write 

 our dinner menu in French, and any new 

 fashionable colour is generally introduced 

 under a Erench name. In old times we were 

 a little more proud of our nationality and 

 displayed a certain amount of good taste in 

 these matters, some of our old-fashioned roses 

 still retaining their very pretty names, "the 

 maiden's blush," "eglantine," "five sisters," 

 "the velvet" and "moss rose." But it is 

 rather sad that nowadays when English names 

 are provided not only for new roses, but for 

 many other flowers, generally denominated 

 " florists'," that our national snobbishness 

 should so much prevail. Thus we have Dukes 

 of Albany, Edinburgh, Connaught, Teck, and 

 Wellington, Baronesses and Countesses of this 

 and that, and Mr. Gladstones, &c., without end, 

 with hosts of names of people of lesser or no 

 fame .at all. One rose is called " Lord Bacon," 



