94 THE PERPETUAL DAMASK ROSE. 



in 1812, in the gardens of the palace of Saint 

 Cloud, then under the direction of Le Comte 

 Lelieur, and named Eose du Koi ; owing, I sup- 

 pose, to Louis XVIII. soon after that time being 

 restored, and presenting an opportunity for the 

 Court gardeners to show their loyalty : it is not 

 recorded that its name was changed during the 

 hundred days to Eose de 1'Empereur! It is 

 asserted that it was raised from the Eosa Port- 

 landica, a semi-double bright-coloured rose, much 

 like the rose known in this country as the Scarlet 

 Four Seasons, or Eosa Psestana; which, Eustace 

 tells us, in his Classical Tour, grows among the 

 ruins of Pcestum, enlivening them with its brilliant 

 autumnal flowers. This proves to be a traveller's 

 tale. 



In France the Crimson Perpetual bears seed 

 abundantly, but its produce are, for the most part, 

 varieties partaking largely of Eosa Grallica ; it is, 

 however, like our old and exccellent Provence 

 Eose, liable to sport : in this way it produced the 

 Eose Bernard ; and more recently a good variety 

 has been originated in the same manner ; but, like 

 most good roses, it has more than one name. 

 Eose du Eoi a fleurs pourpres is its legitimate 

 appellation. A cultivator in France, un peu de 

 charlatan, named it Mogador, soon after the 

 French victory over the Moors. It has proved, 

 indeed, a superb rose : colour, brilliant crimson, 

 slightly shaded with purple: shape, cupped and 



