38 THE FRIENDSHIP OF NATURE 



de Margottin has a better shape, and 

 Anne de Diesbach is a perfect globe. 

 Will you have blush pink? Here 

 are Captain Christy and the Silver 

 Queen. Will you have buds? Here 

 are pink and white moss-buds, and still 

 another, without a single thorn, whose 

 petals are the hue of some rosy, curled 

 sea-shell. For pure white clusters we 

 must beg of Madame Plantier, who 

 vies in purity with the Coquette des 

 Blanches. Pass by that Persian yel- 

 low; its saffron disks smell badly, and 

 gather instead the eglantine, for its 

 leaf is even sweeter than the flower. 



Here by the trellised wall are name- 

 less guests, the relics of more simple 

 days when roses had no royal names, 

 and cuttings from a neighbour's bush 

 spread east and west. There are the 

 cinnamon rose with brownish bark and 

 dull-red spicy flowers, and the red rose 



