142 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



Roses of Ayr), and Thoresbyana — raised, a few miles from 

 my home, at Thoresby ; and among the Evergreens, Ade- 

 laide d'Orleans, Felicite Perpetuelle (who would not desire 

 to have a rose so named upon his house ?) — Myrianthes, 

 and the two Princesses, Marie and Louise. 



These Roses are also most appropriate for covering 

 bowers in the Rosarium, or arched entrances leading 

 to it. They are very effective upon the banks and 

 slopes which I have recommended at page Ii8, flooding 

 them, as it were, with a white cascade of Roses ; and 

 budded upon tall standards of the Brier, they may be soon 

 trained into Weeping Roses — into fountains of leaves and 

 flowers. 



Would that Burns had gazed and written upon the lovely 

 little Banksian Rose ! He would not have esteemed the 

 wee modest daisy one iota the less — he was too true a 

 florist for that ; but he would have painted for us in 

 musical words a charming portrait of this pocket, or rather 

 button-hole, Venus — this petite migjioniie, which, singly, 

 would make a glorious bouquet for Queen Mab's coachman, 

 or, en groiipe, a charming wreath for a doll's wedding, such 

 as I remember to have attended once in my childhood, 

 when, horribile dictu ! the bride upon her way to the altar 



