20 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



to see how much might be, and was, done in one 

 of these pleasant plots. There was something for 

 every season : — 



**The daughters of the year, 

 One after one, through that still garden pass, 

 Each garlanded with her peculiar flower." 



There, to cheer the ungenial days of winter, were 

 the Christmas Rose, the Aconite, the Laurestinus, 

 the Golden Holly, the Cheimonanthus fragrans on 

 its snug bit of southern wall, with the large yellow 

 Jasmine near, and the winter Violets beneath. 

 There, to follow in the spring, the Mezereon, the 

 Erica, the Berberis, the Snowdrop, Hepatica, Poly- 

 anthus, Crocus, and Tulip ; after these the Lilac, 

 Syringa, Laburnum, Ribes, and then the Royal 

 Rose. The straight standards, cleanly and closely 

 pruned, firmly staked and liberally mulched 

 (blessed be the boy with donkey and cart, who 

 goes to a cheap market, and sells accordingly!); 

 the Manetti Dwarfs, full of vigorous wood — not 

 the stock, but the scion this time ; the climbers 

 tastefully trained over *'the bower of Roses by," 

 dare I say, "Bendigo's stream," seeing that the 

 ex-champion is oft an angler in the waters of the 

 Trent, hard by; — all these acknowledge the royal 

 supremacy, and the loyal love of our second 



