Il6 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



earnestly, but has only room for these in his heart. He 

 must have all his trees so disposed that they may be readily 

 surveyed, approached, and handled. Specimens of the 

 same variety must be planted together, that he may quickly 

 compare and select. Time is most precious on the morn- 

 ing of a show ; and returning to the boxes with a bloom in 

 each hand and a couple between one's teeth, it is a sore 

 hindrance to remember another tree at the furthest point 

 of the Rosary which possibly carries the best bloom of all. 

 Taste in arrangement consists with the exhibitor in the 

 harmonious grouping of his Roses, not in the gracefulness 

 of his ground or of his trees. He appeals not to the general 

 public, but to the connoisseur ; not to the court, but to the 

 judge. 



In a Rose-garden not subject to any such restraint — not 

 the drill-ground of our Queen's Body-Guard, but the holi- 

 day assemblage of her people — no formalism, no flatness, 

 no monotonous repetition, should prevail. There should 

 the Rose be seen in all her multiform phases of beauty. 

 There should be beds of Roses, banks of Roses, bowers of 

 Roses, hedges of Roses, edgings of Roses, pillars of Roses, 

 arches of Roses, fountains of Roses, baskets of Roses, vistas 

 and alleys of the Rose. Now overhead and now at our 



