158 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



pleasing effect in other places away from the Rosarium — 

 in those plantation-walks, for example, which are attached 

 to many of our country residences ; and these Climbing 

 Roses might be planted by landlords of generosity and 

 taste, so as to make unsightly buildings ornamental, and 

 to render many a plain cottage more cheerful and home- 

 like. I should like to see them more frequently at our 

 railway stations — and why not upon our railway bridges 

 and embankments ? How striking and beautiful thereon 

 would be such a torrent of white Roses as I have seen at 

 Sawbridgeworth, covering the bank which slopes to the 

 road from the house of the great Rose king ! 

 Coming down from the Climbers to the 



Tall Standards, 



I take leave to say that, although where windows and walls 

 are otherwise inaccessible, a long spider-broom in the hands 

 of an efficient housemaid deserves the admiration with 

 which we watched it in our youth, few persons would think 

 of cutting it in twain, and of setting the upper half in a 

 garden of Roses. Yet have I seen objects suggestive of 

 such an operation in some of those remarkably tall stan- 

 dards which are still extant, but which, were I Czar and 



