Roses of Yesterday 



461 



placed first. This York and Lancaster Rose is the 

 Rosa mundi^ — the rose of the world. A fine plant 

 is growing in Hawthorne's old home in Salem. 



Opposite page 462 is an unusual depiction of the 

 century-old York and Lancaster Rose still growing 



Violets in Silver Double Coaster. 



and flourishing in the old garden at Van Cortlandt 

 Manor. It is from one of the few photographs which 

 I have ever seen which make you forgive their lack 

 of color. The vigor, the grace, the richness of this 

 wonderful Rose certainly are fully shown, though but 

 in black and white. I have called this Rose bush a 

 century old; it is doubtless much older, but it does 



