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not even gladdened occasionally with a few kindly- 

 smiles from the setting sun ; and though I gave 

 him plentifully good soil and good manure, I left 

 him hoping against hope. The first year he did 

 little. I thought he was dying in his dreary dun- 

 geon, but he was only planning his escape ; and 

 out he bolted the next summer, making shoots 

 like salmon- rods, some more than 20 feet long. 

 ** Rampant" must have had adult baptism, and 

 was well named by his sponsors, alway reminding 

 one of a Lancashire anecdote, how a poor client 

 waited upon one Lawyer Cheek of Manchester, 

 with a long bill in his hand, and sighed, as he put 

 down the brass on the table : ** They dunna call 

 thee Cheek for nought" 



Other members of these two families are alike 

 successful in surmounting hardships — e.g., among 

 the Ayrshires, Dundee Rambler, Queen of Bel- 

 gians, Ruga (with its faint odor of the ancestral 

 Tea, which intermarried, it is said, with the Roses 

 of Ayr), and Thoresbyana — raised, a few miles 

 from my home, at Thoresby ; and among the 

 Evergreens, Adelaide d'Orleans, Felicite Perpe- 

 tuelle (who would not desire to have a Rose so 

 named upon his house?) — Myrianthes, and the 

 two Princesses, Marie and Louise. 



These Roses are also most appropriate for 



