NOVEMBER 193 



their rich pink when dried. Lucille, an old- 

 fashioned climber famous for the charm 

 of its bud promises well on the wire rose- 

 arches. To these have been lately added 

 the long-desired old Celestial rose and the 

 Jacobite white rose. This last is a gift 

 straight from a garden in the Chanonry, 

 Aberdeen Old Town, where * it has always 

 been,' as one says. It is the very rose 

 they loved and wore for Prince Charlie. 

 Rosa cinnamomea (the Willow rose), 

 grows most luxuriantly with us, and even 

 threatens to become tiresome. Its flowers 

 are marked by the lovely peculiarity of a 

 little round pink pointal. Yet even as I 

 write, a doubt arises whether after all it is 

 really cinnamomea ! or whether it be not 

 rather rosa pomefera major, the great 

 Apple Rose of Parkinson. Portions of his 

 description of each would suit in part either 

 of these two roses, while a third ' the 

 rose without thorns,' or the 'marbled 

 rose,' is still more like. 



I would not quarrel with my Parkinson; 

 but certainly his descriptions of the roses 

 of his day, are perhaps somewhat involved. 



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