GARDEN ROSES. l8l 



shall suggest, if you please, our onward route 

 through the land of Roses. 



First, then, with reference to the York and 

 Lancaster — thus called because it bears in impar- 

 tial stripes the colors, red and white, of those 

 royal rivals who fought the Wars of the Roses — 

 although I cannot commend its flimsy flowers as 

 gaudily and as scantily draped as the queen of a 

 baUet or burlesque, I must claim a place in the 

 Rosary for a few variegated Roses very superior 

 to their prototype. CEillet Parfait is so truly 

 named, that a skilful florist, seeing a cut bloom of 

 it for the first time, would only be convinced by a 

 close inspection that it was not a Carnation but a 

 Rose. With a clear and constant variegation of 

 white and crimson stripes, it is marvellously like 

 some beautiful Bizarre ; and Perle des Panachees, 

 another gay deceiver, white and rose color, is al- 

 most as efiective. CEillet Flammande and Tricolor 

 de Flandres, though not so striking and distinct 

 — their triple colors, white, lilac, and red, being 

 somewhat dingy and confused — are always 

 curious, and sometimes pleasing. These variegated 

 Roses are easily cultivated, growing freely on the 

 Brier with liberal treatment and moderate pruning. 

 They are affiliated in the catalogues to the family 

 of Gallicas. But what are Gallicas ? 



