IIO THE ROSE. 
disparity of size is imperceptible. Trans- 
gress this rule, and the result will be dis- 
astrous, ludicrous, as when some huge Lon- 
don carriage-horse is put in harness with the 
paternal cob, or as when some small but am- 
bitious dancer runs round and round the 
tallest girl at the ball in the gyrations of 
the mazy waltz. ... The arrangement of 
roses with regard to their color has not been 
studied as it deserves to be. The amateur 
with more leisure than the man of business 
for the study of the beautiful, and for the 
most effective display of his fewer flowers, 
ought to excel, but, asarule, does not. His 
roses are very rarely made the most of in 
this respect, but are frequently marred and 
spoiled, the colors clashing and contending 
with each other instead of combining against 
their common adversary. It is told of a 
highly sensitive dame whose silly pride was 
in dress, that she went into hysterics before 
a large party when her great rival in milli- 
nery came and sat upon the ottoman beside 
her in a grand garment of the same color as 
her own, but of a much more brilliant and 
effective dye; andI have seen many a rose 
which would weep, if it could, aromatic rose- 
water, subdued by alike despair. Once upon 
a time six pretty sisters lived at home to- 
