468 Old Time Gardens 
Among the several hundred things I have fully 
planned out to do, to solace my old age after I have 
become a “ centurion,” is a series of water-color 
drawings of all these old-time Roses, for so many of 
them are already scarce. 
The Michigan Rose which covered the arches in 
Mr. Seward’s garden, has clusters of deep pink, 
single, odorless flowers, that fade out nearly white 
after they open. It is our only native Rose that has 
passed into cultivation. From it come many fine 
double-flowered Roses, among them the beautiful 
Baltimore Belle and Queen of - the Prairies, which 
were named about 1836 by a Baltimore florist called 
Feast. All its vigorous and hardy descendants are 
scentless save the Gem of the Prairies. It is one of 
the ironies of plant-nomenclature when we have so 
few plant names saved to us from the picturesque 
and often musical speech of the American Indians, 
that the lovely Cherokee Rose, Indian of name, is a 
Chinese Rose. It ought to be a native, for every- 
where throughout our Southern states its pure white 
flowers and glossy evergreen leaves love to grow 
till they form dense thickets. 
People who own fine gardens are nowadays un- 
willing to plant the old u Summer Roses ” which 
bloom cheerfully in their own Rose-month and then 
have no more blossoming till the next year ; they 
want a Remontant Rose, which will bloom a second 
time in the autumn, or a Perpetual Rose, which will 
give flowers from June till cut off by the frost. But 
these latter-named Roses are not only of fine gardens 
but of fine gardeners ; and folk who wish the old 
