The scented garden by Rohde Eleanour Sinclair

Author:Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Floriculture, Flowers, Perfumes
Publisher: London : Medici Society
Published: 1900-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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Of the history of the rose during the last century much has been written. Much too of the rose in art and its use as an emblem. The rose is indeed indissolubly linked with the history of the human race. Since 1461 it has been the emblem of this nation. In Henry VIFs chapel, in Westminster Abbey, wherever one looks there is the Tudor Rose ' looking down from the balconies of heaven, companying with angels and archangels, token of perfect beauty.'

1 Dry roses put to the nose to smell do comfort the brayne and the herte and quickeneth the spryte.' To those of us who love the old roses there is no fragrance to equal theirs. It is from their petals that the sweetest potpourris are made. We cannot improve on the old instructions for gathering and drying roses. ' In summertime when roses blowe gather them ere they be full-spred or blowne out, and in drie weather pluck the leaves.'

They should be gathered before they are full-blown because full-blown flowers when dried retain neither their colour nor their perfume. They should be gathered on a sunny day when the dew has dried off them and spread out on sieves, for this ensures quicker drying than laying the petals out on tables or trays. No bought potpourri is so pleasant as that made from one's own garden, for the petals of the flowers one has gathered at home hold the sunshine and memories of summer days, and of past summers only the sunny days should be remembered.

It was formerly the custom also to dry flowers in sand. Sir Hugh Piatt, in his Delights for Ladies (1594), says, 1 You must in rose-time make choice of such roses as are 136

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