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poraries of Pope ; and, later again, of those 

 who directed these matters for George III. 

 and his surrounders. 



Worlidge considered that the rose should 

 be placed between the tulip and the gilly- 

 flower, and he preferred the yellow Provence 

 rose. How the latter was obtained he thus 

 explains : 



" It hath been obtained by budding a single yellow 

 rose to the stock of a flourishing Frankfort rose, near 

 the ground ; when that single yellow is well grown in 

 that branch, inoculate your double yellow rose ; then 

 cut off all suckers and shoots from the first and second, 

 leaving only your last, which must be pruned very near, 

 leaving but few buds. ..." 



He furnishes us with a long catalogue of 

 roses then grown, and adds the Gelder-rose, 

 which he not improbably supposes to be a 

 corruption of Elder-rose, from the resem- 

 blance of the foliage to that of the so- 

 named tree. 



The Provence rose seems to have been 

 sufficiently familiar in Shakespeare's time to 

 have been worn as an article of ornament, 

 for in Hamlet, iv., 2, the Prince of Denmark 



