CAUSES OF FAILURE. 1 3 



county. From my heart I pity that gardener. They 

 might as well have brought him Bob's hack, and told him 

 that if he could not win the Derby and the St Leger with 

 him, they really must find somebody who could. He is not 

 even allowed to choose a situation. The tall ones are to be 

 planted on each side of the broad walk, and the little ones 

 opposite the boudoir window. The broad walk may be as 

 bleak as a common, or, under the shade of melancholy 

 boughs, as dank as a mausoleum ; and the dear little bed 

 opposite the boudoir never sees the sun until mid-day, 

 when it is grilled for three mortal hours, and then given 

 back to gloom. So there the poor Rose-trees stand — 

 through the winter, htdibrmm ventis, or without any air at 

 all, and in the spring a rialto, rendezvous, common room, 

 and tap for all the riff-raff of the insect world — an infirmary 

 for all the diseases which the neglected Rose is heir to. 

 Some few, perhaps, may brave all, and bloom ; but they no 

 more resemble the glorious flowers which my lady saw at 

 Kensington or the Crystal Palace, than my little boy's toy 

 railway-train resembles the Scotch express. 



In my next chapter I will tell what may be done in a 

 very small garden, by a very poor man, who really loves 

 the Rose. 



