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good as beautiful — the same, like a true lady, 

 in an exalted or a low estate, on a standard or 

 on the ground, alone or in group, composed, 

 graceful, not having one of its pale pink delicate 

 petals out of place. Both of these Roses thrive 

 well in pots, but they are most attractive, I think, 

 on their own roots out of doors, in a bed of rich 

 light mellow loam, pruned according to vigor of 

 growth, and pegged down when their shoots are 

 supple, so as to present a uniform surface. 



When speaking of the Moss-Rose generally, I 

 anticipated the little which I had to say of the 

 Moss Perpetual (p. i8o), and, passing on to the 

 Damask Perpetual, have but two Roses to com- 

 mend, and these only where space is unlimited 

 and the love of Roses voracious. A tender sad- 

 ness comes to me thus speaking of them, a melan- 

 choly regret, as when one meets in mid- life some 

 goddess of our early youth, and, out upon Time ! 

 she has no more figure than a lighthouse, and al- 

 most as much crimson in her glowing countenance 

 as there is in its revolving light ; and we are as 

 surprised and disappointed as was Charles Kirk- 

 patrick Sharpe when he met Mrs. Siddons at Ab- 

 botsford, and " she ate boiled beef, and swilled 

 porter, and took snuff, and laughed till she made 

 the whole room shake again." I do not mean that 



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