112 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



they ? O doleful memories ! O blissful hopes ! O dread- 

 ful earthly darkness! O dazzling heavenly light! The 

 morning cometh, as also the night. 



But what do I see, as the mist clears } A garden which, 

 like a thousand others, has obeyed the command of im- 

 perious Fashion, — Away with your borders, your mounds, 

 and your clumps ! Away with walks and with grottoes, 

 nooks, corners, and light and shade ! Down with your 

 timber ! To the rubbish-heap with your lilacs, laburnums, 

 and blossoming trees ! Stub, lay bare, level, and turf; 

 then cover the whole by line and measure with a geo- 

 metrical design. Do you require examples } Copy your 

 carpet, or the ornaments on your pork-pie. Then purchase 

 or provide — for the spring. Bulbs by the sack ; for the 

 summer. Pelargoniums by the million ; for the winter, baby 

 Evergreens and infant Conifers — brought prematurely from 

 t/ie nursery into public life, like too many of our precocious 

 children — by the waggon-load ; introducing, among the 

 latter, narrow little walks of pounded cockle-shells, broken 

 glass, gypsum, brick-dust, sheep's trotters, &c. &c. 



I am well aware that the geometrical system, especially 

 when it is combined with terraces, staircases, balustrades, 

 and edgings of stones, is very effective and appropriate 



