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other Roses have to some degree. The color of the 
Cabbage Rose is very warm and pleasing, a clear, 
happy pink, and the flower has a wholesome, open 
look ; but it is not a beautiful Rose by florists’ stand- 
ards, — few of the old Roses are, — and it is rather 
awkward in growth. The Cabbage Rose is said to 
have been a favorite in ancient Rome. I wish it had 
a prettier name ; it is certainly worthy one. 
The Hundred-leaved Rose was akin to the Cab- 
bage Rose, and shared its delicious fragrance. In its 
rather irregular shape it resembled the present Duke 
of Sussex Rose. 
One of the rarest of old-time Roses in our gar- 
dens to-day is the red and white mottled York and 
Lancaster. It is as old as the sixteenth century. 
Shakespeare writes in the Sonnets : — 
“The Roses fearfully in thorns did stand 
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One blushing shame, another white despair. 
A third, nor red, nor white, had stoPn of both.” 
They are what Chaucer loved, “ sweitie roses red, 
brode, and open also,” Roses of a broad, flat expanse 
when in full bloom ; they have a cheerier, heartier, 
more gracious look than many of the new Roses 
that never open far from bud, that seem so pinched 
and narrow. What ineffable fragrance do they pour 
out from every wide-open flower, a fragrance that 
is the very spirit of the Oriental Attar of Roses ; all 
the sensuous sweetness of the attar is gone, and 
only that which is purest and best remains. I be- 
lieve, in thinking of it, that it equals the perfume 
of the Cabbage Rose, which, ere now, I have always 
