The Greatest Rose Garden in the World 
The 
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CANDLES 
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since the end of the 18th Century to our 
days. It is from hybridizing these with 
the rosa gallica that contemporary 
horticulturists obtained, during the 19th 
Century and these last few years, the 
prettiest of our roses, particularly the 
climbing hybrids and the tea roses. 
The uncovered parterres of the cen¬ 
tral part thus have been reviewed. 
To the left are the roses created dur¬ 
ing the last few years right in the L’Hay 
gardens. Here can be admired “Mme. 
R. Poincare” and “Victorious France”. 
Then come the new roses which were 
awarded prizes at the annual Bagatelle 
flower fair, such as, “Marquise de Sine- 
ty”, awarded first gold medal at Baga¬ 
telle in 1907, “Rhea Reid”, created by 
E. Gurney Hill, of Richmond, Indiana, 
and the “Lyon Rose”, “Jonkeer J. L. 
Mock”, “Sunburst”, “Mme. Edmond 
Rostand”, “Beaute de Lyon”, “Queen 
Alexandra”, “Nevrow Nora Van Tets”, 
“Paul’s Scarlet Climber”, the admir¬ 
able “Wichuriana” which has such won¬ 
derful scarlet petals, the beautiful yel¬ 
low roses of Pernet-Ducher “Benedicte 
Seguin’’, “Souvenir de Claudius Pernet”, 
and “Mrs. Weym Quin” of Dickson, 
also “Los Angeles”, the American suc¬ 
cess of 1918, introduced by Howard & 
Smith of Los Angeles. 
It might be worth pointing out that 
when I intended establishing a rose gar¬ 
den in the reconstituted gardens of 
Bagatelle, in 1905, Mr. Gravereaux of¬ 
fered me all the rose plants which 
formed our first collection, all taken 
from the L'Hay gardens. 
In the “Roserie de Madame”, Ma- 
dame’s own rose garden, are found the 
varieties of the most coveted roses of 
today, such as the “Ulrich Brunner”, 
“Caroline Testout”, “Mme. Abel Chat- 
enay”, “Lady Hillingdon”, “Mme. Ra- 
vary”, “Laurent Carle”, “Clos Fougeot”, 
“Juliet”, etc., and besides the great 
flowers, the small roses which were at 
one time so popular in America for 
men's wear and house decoration. 
Then, at last, comes the experimental 
plot where are gathered the new roses 
obtained by Mr. Gravereaux, patient 
and careful selections for the produc¬ 
tion of rose essence. He has named 
this division “The Collection of Per¬ 
fumed Roses”. There are, together with 
the hybrid varieties which he obtained, 
other varieties of roses cultivated in 
territories widely known as producers 
of rose essence, such as Bulgaria, Tunis 
and Provence. 
Mr. Gravereaux has put the finishing 
touch to his work by forming a Rose 
Museum. Everything that mentions the 
rose or has been inspired in its form 
and decorative worth; all sorts of 
woven fabrics, china, sculptures, paint¬ 
ings, metal and wood carvings, etc., are 
represented in the collection of the 
charming little rustic house, built within 
the gardens, facing the central par¬ 
terres. 
One day, when Mr. Gravereaux was 
showing the contents of his little mu¬ 
seum to the poet D’Annunzio, he even 
showed him a collection of postage 
stamps adorned with roses. “You are 
right,” said the poet soldier smiling, 
“when love is the guide, extremes are 
always attainable.” This sentiment is 
shared by all horticulturists and lovers 
of roses who have derived from Mr. 
Gravereaux’ achievements so much as¬ 
sistance and inspiration. 
The Stars and Flowers 
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Old English Herbals”, recently publish¬ 
ed, has some particularly striking herbal 
magic in Anglo-Saxon peasant, she 
says, “went to gather his healing herbs 
he may have used Christian pravers and 
ceremonies, but he did not forget the 
goddess of the dawn. It is noteworthy 
how frequently we find the injunction 
that the herbs must be picked at sunrise 
or when day and night divide, how often 
stress is laid upon looking towards the 
east, and turning ‘as the sun goeth 
from east to south and west’. The 
ceremonies are all mysterious and sug¬ 
gestive, but behind them always lies 
the ancient ineradicable worship of 
Nature. To what dim past does that 
cry, ‘Erce, Erce, Erce, Mother of 
Earth’ carry us?” Miss Rohde quotes 
from a twelfth-century herbal a prayer 
to Earth which begins thus: “Earth, 
divine goddess, Mother Nature who 
generatest all things and bringeth forth 
anew the sun which thou has given to 
the nations. . . . Hear, I beseech thee, 
and be favourable to my prayer. 
Whatsoever herb thy power dost pro¬ 
duce, give, I pray, with good will to all 
nations to save them and grant me 
this my medicine.” 
From one of these early herbals she 
gives the instructions for gathering the 
“joyous flower” of the marigold: “It 
must be taken only when the moon 
is in the sign of the Virgin, and not 
when Jupiter is in the ascendant, for 
then the herb loses its virtue. And the 
gatherer, who must be out of deadly 
sin, must say three Pater Nosters and 
three Aves.” Of a strange flower called 
Asterion or Lunary she quotes this 
romantic information: “The stalk of 
this herb is red and thyse herb semeth 
as it were musk and the joyce thereof 
is yellow and this groweth in the New 
Moone without leve (leaf) and every 
day spryngeth a newe leave to the ende 
of fyftene dayes and after fyftene days 
it loseth every day a leave as the Moone 
waneth and it springeth and waneth 
as doth the Moone and where that it 
groweth there groweth great quantitie.” 
Lunary was supposed to be very effi¬ 
cacious in the cure of “the falling 
evell.” 
There is a pretty Christian legend of 
great imaginative suggestiveness thus 
retold by Mr. Charles M. Skinner in 
his “Myths and Legends of Flowers, 
Trees, Fruits and Plants”: “The little 
flower we call Star of Bethlehem, whose 
bulb is roasted and eaten by orientals, 
is part of that very light which shone 
in the heavens at the birth of Christ: 
for after it had led the wise men and 
shepherds to the manger it burst, like 
a meteor, scattering acres of flowers 
about the fields. It was as if it had 
been drawn from the glorious company 
of the skies by the great glory of the 
Babe. Joseph, going out at dawn, 
gathered handfuls of these blossoms 
from the wintery earth, and, pouring 
them into the lap of Mary, said, ‘See, 
the star in the east has fallen and borne 
fruit in kind’.” 
Here is a symbol which crystallizes 
in a beautiful, simple form man’s im¬ 
memorial poetic sense of a mysterious 
connection between the flowers of the 
sky, and the stars of the earth. In a 
world where, for all our accumulated 
science, everything remains mystery, 
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