JUNE 131 



fame in a June glory which makes a portrait 

 unnecessary. I have no doubt but that Madame 

 Plantier was the most charming of her sex, or 

 why is she remembered, year after year, by 

 the flowering of the great, sweet, white, amber- 

 hearted roses found in all old gardens worthy 

 of the name? Paul Neyron was hardly an 

 enchanter, but from his counterfeit presentment 

 in the garden of gardens at Mount Vernon 

 arises such an all-encompassing cloud of 

 fragrance, as passing into the memory, lives 

 there in secret crypts, whence it issues at un- 

 expected hours, and brings back the sun- 

 shine that filters through the trees upon the 

 greensward that lights the quiet river into 

 silvery reflections, and touches the far-off hills 

 with a benediction of peace. 



That our forefathers cared little for rose-names 

 even although their homes were set about by 



" Sun-flecked roses by the score 

 More roses and yet more I " 



we may guess when we know that the first 

 catalogue was made by the rosarian Rivers, 

 in 1831, and gave only a modest list of four 

 hundred and seventy-eight names. Even there 



