CULTURE. 89 



the amateur blase with cultivated feeauty, a 

 rose garden should have a waste corner given 

 up to a tangle of Wild roses. They are beautiful 

 in early summer, and very beautiful again in the 

 end of the year, when bright with the autumnal 

 wealtli of the clusters of scarlet heps. Utilitarian 

 agriculture is banishing the Wild .Rose from our 

 hedges, and in a few years its bright pink and 

 pearly blossoms will be as rare as the pretty old 

 rose, the ' Village Maid.' What prettier sight is 

 there than a group of little village maidens with 

 their Wild rose decorations, and with what eager 

 delight a ramble to gather Wild roses is hailed 

 every year by the juniors, even of a rose-loving 

 and cultivating family! Let the Wild roses have 

 a niche in the garden. 



