CHAPTER XI 



GARDEN ROSES — {continued) 



I COMMENCED my selection of garden Roses — that is, 

 of Roses which are beautiful upon the tree, but not the 

 most suitable for exhibition — with the Provence and 

 the Moss, because these were the Roses which I loved 

 the first. They had but few contemporaries alike 

 precious to our eyes and noses in the garden of my 

 childhood — namely, the York and Lancaster, and 

 some other Damask Roses, the Alba,i China, Gallica, 

 and Sweet Brier. 



To the York and Lancaster — thus called because it 

 bears in impartial stripes the colours, red and white, 

 of those royal rivals who fought the Wars of the 

 Roses, recalling Shakspere's lines — 



* And here I prophesy. This brawl to-day, 

 Grown to this faction, in the Temple Garden, 

 Shall send between the red Rose and the white 

 A thousand souls to death and deadly night.' 



^ ' Albion insula sic dicta ab albis rupibus quas mare alluit, vel ob 

 ^w^i-fli//^^^ quibus abundat.' — Pliny, Hist. Nat., iv. i6. 



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