Il6 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



dictate — to work as one who counts such service 

 its own reward and honor. If before the Fall, 

 before the earth brought forth brier or thorn, man 

 was put into a garden to dress it and to keep it, 

 with his will and with his might must he labor 

 now in that plot of ground where he fain would 

 realize his fond idea of Eden. He must work 

 hard, but only as one who copies some great mas- 

 terpiece — not as one who designs, but restores. 

 He must keep order, but only as replacing an 

 arrangement which he has himself disturbed. 

 Thus and thus only he may hope to make himself 

 a garden 



"Where order in variety we see, 

 And where, though all things differ, all agree." 



Were it my privilege to lay out an extensive 

 Rose-garden, I should desire a piece of broken 

 natural ground, surrounded on all sides but the 

 south with sloping banks, " green and of mild 

 declivity," on which evergreen shrubs should 

 screen and beautify by contrast the Roses bloom- 

 ing beneath ; and in the centre I should have, at 

 irregular intervals, Rose-clad mounds high enough 

 to obstruct the view even of Arba, great among 

 the Anakims, which would enable me to surprise, 

 to vary, and to conceal, according to the golden 



