garden-roses

Updated: May 31, 2025

She impregnated it, too, not with a wild-flower scent, for wildness was no trait of hers, but with the perfume of garden-roses, pinks, and other blossoms of much sweetness, which nature and man have consented together in making grow from summer to summer, and from century to century. Such a flower was Phoebe in her relation with Clifford, and such the delight that he inhaled from her.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - House of the Seven Gables