

46 THE ROSE. 



Hundred-leaved Rose, which the poets sang, and 
it was almost the only one to which the painters 
paid homage; since Redouté (a celebrated painter 
of flowers) their pencils have delineated many 
of the lovely varieties which our gardens have 
produced; but look at the paintings of the 16th, 
17th and 18th centuries, and you will see none 
but the Cabbage (100-leaved) Rose, the English 
White and Red Roses of York and Lancaster, and 
the Yellow Rose, which only became really dou- 
ble about a hundred years since. We must admit 
the Cabbage Rose, as the Dutch formed it, has 
never yet been surpassed by any of the produe- 
tions of our florists; none had even approached it; 
and it has the advantage of flowering twice a 
year like the Roses of Peestum, whieh were prob- 
ably a kind of four seasons’ Rose. In almost 
every country these roses are apparently as old 
as the hills; but it is from the Asiatic hundred- 
petaled rose tribe that man has everywhere his 
first delight. 
The Rose of Provence, down to the time of the 
crusades at least, the only famous rose in France, 
was the first of these oriental visitors acelimated 


