TREES 



than half the low-growing Roses were dead 

 to the ground, and the budded ones have 

 this Summer grown only Sweet Briar bushes 

 a warning lesson never to buy Roses ex- 

 cept on their own roots. 



The hybrid Perpetual and other Roses 

 that survived, produced great quantities of 

 flowers. I have never seen finer blooms of 

 Baroness Rothschild, Margaret Dixon, and 

 Kaiserin Augusta Victoria than those of this 

 year in my garden. 



As I walked about my beloved garden on 

 that April day and saw the sad havoc 

 wrought among the plants by the cold Win- 

 ter, sorrow and despair, such as the gar- 

 dener will understand, took hold of me. 

 Tears are the most futile things in the world 

 and serve only to make one homely and un- 

 attractive and a nuisance to others, but when 

 the men went off to dinner I retired to the 

 farthest corner of the place and, with only 

 my dog to see, who whined in sympathy, 

 wept bitterly. But courage and a determi- 

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