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mean about the wrists, but inwardly — for immediate presentation, I 

 propose to cool him a little in the fresh pure air, taking him with me 

 to the summit of a breezy slope, which he, being of a rampant nature, 

 will rejoice to ascend, and then showing him, when pleasantly and 

 kindly " we've climbed the hill together," all the Roses ! 



Just out of Interlachen, the tourist on his way to Lauterbrunnen is 

 invited by his courier or his coachman to leave the main road, and, 

 walking up the higher ground on the right, to survey from the garden 

 of a small residence, which was used when I saw it as a pension or 

 boarding-house, one of the most lovely views in Switzerland — the two 

 lakes of Thun and Brienz. So would I now invite the amateur to 

 survey and to consider the Roses in two divisions. I would describe 

 those, in the first place, which are desirable additions to the rosarium, 

 either as enhancing the general effect from the abundance or colour of 

 their flowers, or as having some distinctive merit of their own, and 

 which, not being suitable for exhibition, I would designate as Garden 

 Roses ; and I would then make a selection of the varieties which pro- 

 duce the most symmetrical and perfect blooms — that is to say, of 

 Show Roses. 



And I advise the amateur, beginning to form a collection, to appro- 

 priate unto himself a good proportion of those Roses from the first 

 division, which, being of a more robust growth than many of the Show 

 varieties, are more likely to satisfy and to enlarge his ambition. I 

 hardly think that I should have been a rosarian had not the wise 

 nurseryman who supplied the first Roses which I remember, sent 

 strong and free-blooming sorts ; and I have known many a young 

 florist discouraged who attempted, without experience, the cultivation 

 of plants which required an expert, or who had received from some 

 inferior or shortsighted purveyor weakly and moribund trees. Where- 

 fore, writing with the hope that I may in some degree promote and 

 instruct that love of the Rose from which I have derived so much 

 happiness, I exhort novice and nurseryman alike, as ever they hope to 

 build a goodly edifice, to lay a deep and sure foundation. Let the 

 one order robust varieties, and the other send vigorous plants. 



Then, should the educated taste of the amateur lead him to prefer 

 the perfection of individual Roses to the general effect of his rosary — 

 should he find more pleasure in a single bloom, teres atque rotunda^ 

 than in a tree luxuriantly laden with flowers, whose petals are less 

 gracefully disposed — if, like young Norval, he has heard of battles, and 

 longs to win his spurs — then must these latter lusty, trusty, valiant pion- 

 eers make way for the vanguard of his fighting troops. Let him not 

 disband them hastily. If, surveying the Roses of these two divisions, 

 and having grown them all, I were asked whether I should prefer a 



