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rhod, meaning red, and from this he assumes that red 

 must have been the prevailing colour of the Rose. 



Shakespeare made numerous references to a flower 

 that he clearly knew and loved well ; and some of them 

 are of great beauty, as the following excerpts will 

 show : 



" Of Nature's gifts thou may's! with Lilies boast 

 And with the half-blown Rose." 



King John. 



" So sweet a kiss the morning sun gives not 

 To those fresh morning drops upon the Rose." 



Love's Labour's Lost. 



In the exquisite Sonnet LIV. Shakespeare makes beauti- 

 ful use of the odour of the Rose, and of its distillation 

 to form the famous attar of Roses, which has been 

 manufactured for many centuries in Turkey and else- 

 where. The fragrance of the Rose is indeed one of 

 its greatest charms, and it lives in most of the newer 

 varieties. It is true that a scentless sort wins favour 

 now and then, owing to exceptional beauty of bloom 

 the varieties Her Majesty and Frau Karl Druschki are 

 cases in point but they are few. From the "tea" 

 scent of the varieties of Rosa indica to the rich, full 

 perfume of the Damask, Monthly and modern Hybrid 

 Perpetual Roses all are deliciously sweet. 



Some Species of Roses. It is a pleasurable but an 

 involved task to trace the origin of modern Roses. We 

 have a number of classes, the distinctive names of 

 which convey a definite meaning to experts, but are 

 none the less indefinite. Few amateur growers realise 

 how numerous these classes are. With many Rose- 

 lovers there are only Hybrid Perpetuals, Teas, and 

 Hybrid Teas ; all the rest are " climbers." But even 

 climbers must be classified. Let us glance at a few 



