144 ^ BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



covering bowers in the Rosarium, or arched en- 

 trances leading to it. They are very eftective 

 upon the banks and slopes which I have recom- 

 mended at page ii 6, flooding them, as it were, 

 with a white cascade of Roses ; and budded upon 

 tall standards of the Brier, they may be soon 

 trained into Weeping Roses — into fountains of 

 leaves and flowers. 



Would that Burns had gazed and written up- 

 on the lovely little Banksian Rose ! He would not 

 have esteemed the wee modest daisy one iota the 

 less — he was too true a florist for that; but he 

 would have painted for us in musical words a 

 charming portrait of this pocket, or rather button- 

 hole, Venus — \M\'=y petite mignomie, which, singly, 

 would make a glorious bouquet for Queen Mab's 

 coachman, or, oi grojipe, a charming wreath for a 

 doll's wedding, such as I remember to have at- 

 tended once in my childhood, when, Jwrribile 

 dictu I the bride upon her way to the altar fell 

 prone from our rocking-horse (a nuptial grey), and 

 broke her bridal nose. The Banksian Rose is in- 

 deed 



" A miniature of loveliness, all grace 

 Summed up and closed in little;" 



and both the yellow and white varieties — the lat- 



