474 
Old Time Gardens 
gladden the heart of Omar Khayyam, where two or 
three acres of ground were grown over heavily with 
old-fashioned Roses. These were only the common 
Cinnamon Rose, the beloved Cabbage Rose, and a 
pale pink, spicily scented, large-petalled, scarcely 
double Rose, known to them as the Apothecaries’ 
Madame Plantier Rose. 
Rose. Farmer-neighbors wondered at this waste of 
the Masons 5 good land in this unprofitable Rose 
crop, but it had a certain use. There came every 
June to this Rose garden all the children of the 
vicinity, bearing milk-pails, homespun bags, birch 
baskets, to gather Rose petals. They nearly all 
had Roses at their homes, but not the Mason 
