204 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



Brennus (Hybrid China), Scipio (Gallica), Marechal Bugeaud 

 (Tea), Duke of Cambridge (Damask), Tippoo Saib (Gallica), 

 Generals Allard, Jacqueminot, Kleber, and Washington (all 

 Hybrid Chinas), Colonel Coombes, Captain Sisolet, &c. ; 

 and their counsel, like ]Moloch's, was for open war. They 

 said it was expedient to readjust their boundaries. They 

 unanimously advised an immediate raid upon the vegetable 

 kingdom which adjoined their own. They discovered that 

 they had been for years grossly insulted by their neighbours 

 (Aimee Vibert was almost sure that a young potato had 

 winked his eye at her), and the time for revenge was come. 

 No, not revenge, but for enlightenment and amelioration ; 

 seeing that these blessings must inevitably attend their 

 intercourse with any other nation, and that, consequently, 

 an invasion, with a touch of fire and sword, was beyond a 

 doubt the most delightful thing that could happen to the 

 barbarians over the way. Geant des Batailles (Hybrid 

 Perpetual) waved the standard of Marengo (ditto), and they 

 sallied forth at once. They routed the rhubarb, they carried 

 the asparagus with resistless force, they cut down the rasp- 

 berries to a cane. They annexed that vegetable kingdom, 

 and they retain it still. 



Yes, everything was made to subserve the Rose. My 



