INTRODUCTION. 21 
As for out-of-door roses, who may state the 
favorites among so many of the fair? Let 
each one decide their merits for himself; and, 
revelling in their wealth of beauty as it un- 
folds with each recurring blossom-tide, re- 
peat with Omar: 
ook to the blowing Rose about us—‘‘ Lo, 
Laughing,” she says, ‘‘into the world I blow, 
At once the silken tassel of my Purse 
Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw.” 
GEORGE H. ELLWANGER. 
ROCHESTER, Oct., 1892, 
