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Z YORK AND LANCASTER 
ROSE. 
e Rosa Damascena, 
HY, it may be asked, is this old 
© favourite of the English earden 
presented as a rose of Damas- 
cus? The reason is that the 
true York and Lancaster rose is 
a variety of Rosa Damascena ; 
and if in this little work we 
recognise Latin names at all, 
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we must be as nearly correct 
us possible. There are several 
distinct roses known as repre 
senting the two great families 
and the healing of their feuds, 
one of the best known being a 
variety of Rosa Callica, But 
the “proper” symbolie flower is a striped damask rose, 
with green branches and pubescent leaves, and the habit 
of the old monthly roses. 
As Shakespeare tells the tale it makes a profound im- 
pression. We see the foundations of the feud laid in 
the success of Bolingbroke and the cruel murder of the 
king as the curtain falls on the fine historical tragedy 
of “ Richard Il.” We see it ripen in the first part of 
“King Henry VI.” in the famous scene in the Temple 
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