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ters of white pink-tinted flowers, they will flourish where 

 no others can grow — in the waste places of the earth, in 

 damp dismal corners, under trees and up them, if you wish. 

 Upon the blank wall of two new rooms, having a western 

 aspect, I planted Rampant sempervirens. Owing to the 

 proximity of another wall and of intermediate shrubs, he 

 was not even gladdened occasionally with a few kindly 

 smiles from the setting sun ; and though I gave him plenti- 

 fully good soil and good manure, I left him hoping against 

 hope. The first year he did little. I thought he was dying 

 in his dreary dungeon, but he was only planning his escape; 

 and out he bolted the next summer, making shoots like 

 salmon-rods, some more than 20 feet long. '' Rampant " 

 must have had adult baptism, and was well named by his 

 sponsors, always reminding one of a Lancashire anecdote, 

 how a poor client waited upon one Lawyer Cheek of Man- 

 chester, with a long bill in his hand, and sighed, as he put 

 down the brass on the table, " They dunna call thee Cheek 

 for nought." 



Other members of these two families are alike successful 

 in surmounting hardships — e.^., among the Ayrshires, Dun- 

 dee Rambler, Queen of Belgians, Ruga (with its faint odour 

 of the ancestral Tea, which intermarried, it is said, with the 



