Roses of Yesterday 461 
placed first. This York and Lancaster Rose is the 
Rosa mundi, — the rose of the world. A fine plant 
is growing in Hawthorne’s old home in Salem. 
Opposite page 462 is an unusual depiction of the 
century-old York and Lancaster Rose still growing 
Violets in Silver Double Coaster. 
and flourishing in the old garden at Van Cortlandt 
Manor. It is from one of the few photographs which 
I have ever seen which make you forgive their lack 
of color. The vigor, the grace, the richness of this 
wonderful Rose certainly are fully shown, though but 
in black and white. I have called this Rose bush a 
century old; it is doubtless much older, but it does 
