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name to it ; it had a bloom somewhat like a 

 monthly rose, only smaller and very sweet ; 

 the foliage resembled that of the burnett rose, 

 which is, however, generally white ; it may 



Recollection of Kelmscott Rose. 



have been a red burnett rose, but I never 

 saw one before like it, and believe it some 

 old-fashioned sort that has lingered on in 

 this old garden, possibly elsewhere obsolete. 

 Morris took us by a short cut across his 

 standing-crop of grass and bade us a most 



