60 FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS. 
had also the sweet-brier rose, with its elegant carmine- 
coloured flowers, and the downy rose, with its neat white 
flowers; the emblems ‘of the pending strife were not want- 
ing, but no one can now say what they were. 
As remarked above, there are two roses that represent 
the desire of Richmond to “unite the white rose and 
the red.” The true York and Lancaster we believe to be 
a striped damask rose; but there is another that often 
bears the name, the proper name of which is Losa 
mundi, and its allance is with the French rose (Rosa 
Gallica). These are not the only striped roses known to. 
cultivators, for im truth there are many ; but not one of 
the throng has ever been much prized by eritical enthu- 
siasts—that is to say, by rosarians, for that is the fashion- 
able designation of the modern rosomaniacs—to which 
excitable and exacting fraternity the writer humbly con- 
fesses his attachment. 
