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Plan . Ay, sharp and piercing to maintain his truth ; 
Whiles thy consuming canker eats his falsehood. 
Som. Well, I’ll find friends to wear my bleeding roses, 
That shall maintain what I have said is true. 
Warwick. And here I prophesy this brawl to-day, 
Grown to this faction in the Temple-garden, 
Shall send between the red rose and the white 
A thousand souls to death and deadly night. 
With such a tradition the Temple Garden should 
never be without its roses. They are one of those 
friendly plants which will do their best to fight against 
fog and smoke, and flower boldly for two or three years 
in succession: so a supply of red and white, and the 
delightful Rosa mundi , the “York and Lancaster,” 
could without much difficulty be seen there every 
summer. Certainly some of the finest roses in existence 
have been in the Temple Gardens, as the Flower Shows, 
which are looked forward to by all lovers of horticulture, 
have for many years been permitted to take place in these 
historic grounds. How astonished those adherents of 
the red or white roses would have been to see the colours, 
shades, and forms which the descendants of those briars 
now produce. The Plantagenet Garden would not con¬ 
tain many varieties, although every known one was 
cherished im every garden, as roses have always been first 
favourites. Besides the briars, dog roses, and sweet 
briars, there was the double white and double red, a 
variety of Rosa gallica. Many so-called old-fashioned 
roses, such as the common monthly roses, came to Eng¬ 
land very much later, and the vast number of gorgeous 
hybrids are absolutely new. Elizabethan gardens had a 
fair show of roses with centifolia, including moss and 
Provence roses, and York and Lancaster, Rosa lutea , musk, 
