6 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



weather, Mitchell, Paul, Perkins, Pochin, Smith, 

 Turner, Veitch, and Wood. 



In the trade, Mr. Bennett of Stapleford, as a 

 raiser of new Roses ; Mr. Prince of Oxford, as the 

 introducer of the Seedling Brier; the Messrs. 

 Ewing of Norwich, as large growers for sale — 

 have become important allies ; and Mr. Jowett of 

 Hereford, growing Roses by the acre, and bring- 

 ing them to the shows in trucks, Mr. Burnaby- 

 Atkins of Halstead, Mr. Soames of Ivnham, Mr. 

 Hawtrey of Slough, and Mr. Scott of Wimble- 

 don, have achieved victories for the volunteer 

 corps. But we ought to have young knights 

 coming by scores to tilt in our merry jousts, and 

 new candidates for royal honors should appear at 

 every levee of our Queen. 



We must pass from the public Rose-show to 

 the private Rose-garden to see in its saddest 

 phase the difference between what is and what 

 ought to be — the feeble harvest of good Roses 

 from the broad acres of good Rose-trees. These 

 collections remind us of Martial's description of 

 his works : " Sunt bona, sunt qucedam mediocria, 

 sunt mala plural We can hardly say of them, as 

 an Edinburgh Reviewer (was it Sydney Smith ?) of 

 a volume of sermons, criticised in the first number 

 of that work : '* Their characteristic is decent 



