Vita Sackville-Westさんのイラストまとめ

Huguenot refugees popularized them in England, and by the latter part of the 17th century many new varieties had been raised to which some charming and fanciful names were given such as the Fair Virgin, the Alderman, the Matron, Prince Silverwings.m

—trying to make her way home from the little colony at the foot of Table Mountain. The canny Yorkshiremen picked them up, since when Vallota [Cyrtanthus elatus] has always been familiarly known as the Scarborough Lily. https://t.co/h2XaK9eHJP https://t.co/kFDWJ2w6pG

The rest of this brilliant little company should not be too ruinous. A few shillings will go a long way for a start and one can always add more during ensuing years. They take up so little room and are so welcome in the months when spring seems to be so endlessly laggard.

There seems to have existed once a rose known as the Velvet Rose. Nobody knows with any certainty what particular rose was meant by this name, but it is supposed that it must have been a Gallica. Nobody knows the place of its origin: https://t.co/IWiWrdlwVa

Why the Christmas rose, which is white, should be called black in Latin I could not imagine until I discovered that the adjective referred to the root; but I still cannot imagine why people do not grow both these varieties more freely. https://t.co/7x4onUA1Z9

It is a charming word; I have always used it and shall continue to use it, whatever the great OED may say; and shall now take my neighbour’s tussie-mussie as a theme to show what ingenuity, taste and knowledge can produce from a small garden even in February.

The only question is which rose are we to regard as the true York-and-Lancaster? For the one which most people hail cheerfully by that name in gardens, very often turns out to be not York-and-Lancaster at all, but Rosa Mundi.

[Some Flowers’37] The Wars of the Roses being fortunately now over, making one war the less for us to reckon with, we are left to the simple enjoyment of the flower which traditionally symbolizes that historic contest. https://t.co/t0HeFAevg8

The second grievance concerns changes of botanical name. I admit that it is very puzzling to be brought up in our childhood to call lilac Lilac and syringa Syringa; and suddenly to be told in our middle-age that we must call lilac Syringa and syringa Philadelphus.

We should all rush to look up strobiliformis or quintuplinervius, only to discover that it meant shaped like a fir-cone, and five-veined in the description of a leaf.
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