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two roses, you may remember, were combined 
in a much more conventional way in 1485, as 
the badge of the Tudors, and these Tudor roses 
are often to be seen carved or emblazoned on 
the buildings of that date. This double rose 
was formed of Henry the Seventh’s Lancastrian 
badge joined with the white rose of Elizabeth 
of York, or, as the rhyme puts it— 
King Henry the Seventh did the roses unite ; 
His own was the red, and his wife’s was the white. 
A very large number of the roses most 
familiar in gardens to-day have been formed, 
like the Tudor rose, by combining two of the 
“ type ” roses that grow wild in some distant 
part of the world, and producing what is called 
a “garden hybrid.” Gardeners are so skilful 
in doing this (especially French gardeners) that 
every year there are new roses being brought 
out to add to the many hundreds that already 
exist. Comparatively few of the roses now 
grown in gardens are what are called “ type 
roses,” or those which have not been altered 
by cultivation, although some of these types 
are very beautiful and sweet, such as the 
cinnamon rose or the Macartney rose. But 
roses are still classed more or less with the 
groups under the names of the kind from 
which' they sprang, such as Rosa gallica, or 
