The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-07-21
Old-lraSlliOnetl Roses.

Ill Gilc present craze lOr baCQ Qu9mlnOtS
and Marechal Niels and Bon S1lenes,
few people remember any of the beau
tiful old fashioned roses that delighted
tue hearts Of people generation ago.
Years ago tho cabbage roso was oonsid-
ored aim ost the very perfection of rosos.
Now the variety Is nearly extinct. Some
persons will remember u few old speci-
mons, never to be forgotten Oh account
OF their tall, spreading, woody bushes,
their large, glossy, dark-green leaves
and their gorgeous masses Of deep pink
bloom. Those who think tho corolla of
the fashionable Jacquemlnot big should
have seen those They were literally;
as tho name indicates, respectable. sized
cabbages. The Baltimore belle was
onco the fancy rose. Now it is scarcely
ever seen, except clambering over old
fashioned porches and arbors. 1t is n
hardy, luXllriant climber, and ut the
same time delicate, graceful one. 1t
bears wealth OF bloom, sometimes the
green being scarcely visible under it's
veil OF crimson. The color is deep
crimson, velvety rs Il royal robe. The
flowers arc not very double, having III
their centres protusion of bright vel
low stamens.
But though the Baltimore Belle is
beautiful the Champney far surpasses it.
Not ono in a hundred of the present
race Of readers knows what Chnmpney
roso is. A single specimen is Ii lrdly
obtainablo anywhere. TIC bush is low
and speeding, somewhat after the man.
ncr OF the wild rose, and it blooms ut
the rate of hundreds at time. The
blossom resembles that of the Baltimore
Belle in that it is but slightly double.
with n profusion of yellow stamens, but
it differs in color, being of dainty,
creamy white, shading into faint pink.
All old gardens displayed m abundance
OF the hundred leaf OF crown rose. This
seemed we'll named, for tho too. abundant
petals were literally packed together to
form blossom raised in the centre like
crown. In color it was of q reaI go
called rose pink and had the character
istic fragrance SO we'll known in roso
water. Now, whenever seen, the hun
dred leaf roso bushes arc usually de-
generate prey for rose bugs. Beautiful
half blown buds may sometimes be OH.
tanned. but very seldom can one find n
perfect flower.
Tho Old fashioned yellow rose has
disappeared almost ED Dtlrely. The plants
were little, tho clustered leaves very di.
minutivo and the stems and seed vessels
very prickly, but the blossoms were
large and glowing, like n small sun, more
beautiful by far than the nodcu, el,t.6
sunllower.
The bIighted roso once was quite
curiosity; and so it is now-in tho few
places in which it may still be seen. Ono
single plant sometimes spread itself like
miniature thiokot, q tangled mass Of
greenery. TIE rather largo, very dou-
bio blossoms were pure white upon their
outer edge and delicate pink in the cen.
tro, similar Ill this respect to what is
now known as the blush rose. But tho
blghtcd rose had one pecullarity. Re.
fore the centre had fully developed the
outer edge had begun to fade, so that
1t was no uncommon thing to Sc the
pink heart surrounded by a fringe of
wlthered petals. Sometimes the outcr
layer showed strcaks of brown even in
the bud.
Inc real moss rose of which the poets
have sung is now little moro than n
memory. 1t rcscmbled the crown rose
except that it was larger, of q deencr
pink and had n green mossy Growth
upon its calyx. The moss roso is stll
initiated by art, but how far this in,ta-
ton is successful few of the people Of
the present day have much opportunity
of Judging.
me dog rose is perhaps the rarest of
all the roses formerly cultivated, though
1t 's said to grow wild in some parts of
Pennsylvania. This resembles the
swectbrer and ran over, perhaps, Yards
OF space, with the same native lnxurI.
ance. Its blossoms were single, like
those OF the wild rose, with five simple
petals, nut larger and of deep velycty
pink. Other roses thero were of which
scarce the name or the memory romans
Ono OF these WAS like double swami
rose' forming thickets like bramblcs.