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A BOOK ABOUT KTOS-ES. 



CHAPTER I. 



CAUSES OF FAILURE. 



He who would have beautiful Roses in his 

 garden must have beautiful Roses t7i his heart. 

 He must love them well and always. To win, 

 he must woo, as Jacob wooed Laban's daughter, 

 though drought and frost consume. He must 

 have not only the glowing admiration, the en- 

 thusiasm, and the passion, but the tenderness, 

 the thoughtfulness, the reverence, the watchful- 

 ness of love. With no ephemeral caprice, like 

 the fair young knight's, who loves and who rides 

 away when his sudden fire is gone from the cold 

 white ashes, the cavalier of the Rose has semper 

 fidelis upon his crest and shield. He is loyal and 

 devoted ever, in storm-fraught or in sunny days ; 

 not only the first upon a summer's morning to 

 gaze admiringly on glowing charms, but the first, 

 when leaves fall and winds are chill, to protect 

 against cruel frost. As with smitten bachelor or 



