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delightful corner, with an eastern aspect ; put in 

 one hundred Briers ; budded them last summer ; 

 manured them abundantly this ; and am now, 

 between ourselves, and stib rosa, in such a bump- 

 tious condition, that you'd think I'd made the 

 Roses myself." 



There is, alas ! one locality, beneath that dark 

 canopy of smoke which hangs over and around 

 our large cities and manufacturing towns, wherein 

 it is not possible to grow the Rose in its glory ; 

 and many a time as I have stood in the pure air 

 and sunshine among my own beautiful flowers, I 

 have felt a most true and sorrowful sympathy for 

 those who, loving the Rose as fondly as I do, are 

 unable to realize its perfect beauty. Well, no man 

 can have his earthly happiness just in the Avay he 

 wills ; but every man, as a rule, has his equal 

 share, and these men, I doubt not, have other 

 successes as solace and compensation. Nay, are 

 not their Roses, which we, more favored, should 

 regard as disappointments, successes to them, 

 great and gratifying ? If Mr. Shirley Hibberd, 

 for example, whose ''Rose Book" I commend to 

 urban and oppidan amateurs, can grow good 

 Roses within four miles of the General Post-Office 

 — and I have seen the proofs of his skill and per- 

 severance at one of the great London Rose-shows, 



