Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems (1902)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York; London : Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 452
oots, withstrong, small thorns and rather bluish green leaves,which were easily ravaged by Rose enemies. Therewere two or three, or even five, Roses in a grouptogether—not in a thick cluster, like the SevenSisters — but always with one Rose a bit biggerand finer than others of the group. This… … The White Rose. Our Grandmothers Roses 347 and when they dropped, almost blue-white. Occa-sionally a single lovely snow-white Rose would ap-pear in bloom on this bush in the autumn, and wasa great prize, to be carefully gathered and set inthe slender, wrought-silver vase. It used to be in…
Sundials · Roses · Rosicrucians
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