June Is Abloom
Roses, roses everywhere, but ne’er a scent of fragrance.
How did it happen that roses have become more and more beautiful while all the while becoming less and less fragrant? Perhaps we have to go back to the heirloom varieties. Everywhere, roses are blooming and climbing—tea roses, floribunda roses, prickly roses such as Rosa rogusa, hybrids, and the occasional species or cultivar with the faintest of whiffs of the essence of rose. Seeing this bush of single-petalled roses in early June put me in a rosy mood.