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Old Time Gardens 



gladden the heart of Omar Khayyam, where two or 

 three acres of ground were grown over heavily with 

 old-fashioned Roses. These were only the common 

 Cinnamon Rose, the beloved Cabbage Rose, and a 

 pale pink, spicily scented, large-petalled, scarcely 

 double Rose, known to them as the Apothecaries' 



Madame Plantier Rose. 



Rose. Farmer-neighbors wondered at this waste of 

 the Masons' good land in this unprofitable Rose 

 crop, but it had a certain use. There came every 

 June to this Rose garden all the children of the 

 vicinity, bearing milk-pails, homespun bags, birch 

 baskets, to gather Rose petals. They nearly all 

 had Roses at their homes, but not the Mason 



