ARRANGEMENT. II3 



He wins all points, who pleasingly confounds, 

 Surprises, varies, and conceals the bounds." 



But what, it may be asked, has all this to do 

 with the Rosary ? And I answer, Everything ; 

 because nowhere is the formal, monotonous, artifi- 

 cial system of arrangement more conspicuously 

 rampant. It almost seems, in some cases, as 

 though the owners had copied the methodical 

 Frenchman, who, having received an assortment 

 of Rose-trees of various heights from the nursery, 

 planted them all at the same distance above the 

 ground, that he might preserve the unities of an 

 even surface. Does not a dead level, bearing the 

 old pattern of stars and garters, generally encircle 

 the Rose-temple, over which the disgusted right- 

 minded Rose-trees always object to grow ? It 

 looks like a dismal aviary from which the birds 

 have flown ; but with a little bright paint and gild- 

 ing externally, and a loud barrel-organ within, it 

 might form a brilliant lucrative centrepiece for a 

 merry-go-round at a fair. 



When the Rose is grown for exhibition exclu- 

 sively, the geometrical system in its simplest form, 

 and minus the temple, is desirable, as being most 

 convenient to him who purposely sacrifices beauty 

 of arrangement as regards the general appearance, 



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