1 88 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



high on poles, or midway on the Brier, these 

 Roses are aHke effective, charming. To these T 

 would add La Ville de Bruxelles, having bright 

 pink flowers of a compact form, and so complete 

 my selection of Summer Roses for the general 

 collection. 



''Wait a moment," it may be said; "do you 

 mean to tell us that such Roses as Blairii 2 and 

 Charles Lawson are onl)^ garden Roses, and not 

 good enough for exhibition ?" Yes, I do mean to 

 tell you that it is with these Roses as with those 

 which we discussed before them. If you could 

 bring the British public to them, they would be 

 rewarded with the highest distinctions, but the 

 process of conveying them to the British public 

 takes the exquisite freshness from Charles Law- 

 son's beauty, and too often produces in the junior 

 Miss Blair a transition from the blushing graceful- 

 ness of girlhood into the rubicund stoutness of 

 middle age. Again and again, charmed by their 

 loveliness overnight, I have given them a place in 

 my boxes : as often I have been obliged to con- 

 fess that the impulse of the evening did not satisfy 

 the morning's reflection. On this subject I shall 

 have more to say ; meanwhile let us snift" — 



The Sweet- Brier ; and let no Rosarian lightly 

 esteem this simple but gracious gift. " You are 



