Roses of Yesterday 
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other flowers. I know not whether it comes from cen- 
turies of establishment as a race-symbol, or from some 
inherent witchery of the plant, but it certainly exists. 
The variety of Roses known to old American 
gardens, as to English gardens, was few. The Eng- 
lish Eglantine was quickly established here in gar- 
dens and spread to roadsides. The small, ragged, 
cheerful little Cinnamon Rose, now chiefly seen as a 
garden stray, is undoubtedly old. This Rose dif- 
fuses its faint cc sinamon smelle ” when the petals are 
dried. Nearly all of the Roses vaguely thought to 
be one or two hundred years old date only, within 
our ken, to the earlier years of the nineteenth cen- 
tury. The Seven Sisters Rose, imagined by the 
owner of many a Southern garden to belong to colo- 
nial days, is one of the family Rosa multiflora , intro- 
duced from Japan to England by Thunberg. Its 
catalogue name is Greville. I think the Seven Sisters 
dates back to 1822. The clusters of little double 
blooms of the Seven Sisters are not among our beau- 
tiful Roses, but are planted by the house mistress 
of every Southern home from power of association, 
because they were loved by her grandmothers, if 
not by more distant forbears. The crimson Bour- 
saults are no older. They came from the Swiss Alps 
and therefore are hardy, but they are fussy things, 
needing much pruning and pulling out. I recall that 
they had much longer prickles than the other roses 
in our garden. The beloved little Banksia Rose came 
from China in 1807. The MadamePlantieris a hybrid 
China Rose of much popularity. We have had it 
about seventy or eighty years. In the lovely garden 
