1 84 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



the most palpable and objective form. Though it 

 may be difficult for us to understand why the 

 Pei'sian Yellow, brought to England from Persia 

 by Sir H. Willock, should have been promptly 

 described as an Aiistrian Brier* — and we are a 

 trifle perplexed to comprehend whence the latter, 

 discovered first in Italy, derived its appellation — 

 let us be sure that it was all plain, and clear as the 

 light, to them. 



But now that these summer Roses are no 

 longer paramount — rapidly disappearing, on the 

 contrary, before the superior and more enduring- 

 beauty of those varieties which bloom in summer 

 and autumn too ; now that several divisions for- 

 merly recognized are gone from the catalogues, 

 and others include but two or three able-bodied 

 Roses on their muster-roll — it would be advisable, 

 I think, to ignore altogether these minor distinc- 

 tions, and to classif;\' as summer Roses all those 

 which bloom but once. Not without a painful 

 sigh can we older Rosarians vvitness the removal of 

 our old landmarks — not without a io}'al sorrow do 

 we say farewell to friends who have brightened 

 our lives with so much gladness; but we cannot 

 lone: remember our losses, surrounded as we arc 



*- The two Rose-trees, it is true, are very similar in habit, but tlic 

 nomenclature is "just a muddle a'toogether." 



