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BY THE WAYSIDE AND HEDGEROWS. 



"The dew yet lingers on the gras*, 



As down the long green lane von pass, 



Where o'er the hawthorn's snowy wreath 

 The woodbine's honied perfumes breathy 



And the wild roses' arching spray 

 Flaunts to the breeze above your way. 



"What palace proud what city hall 



Can match these verdant boughs that fall, 

 Vaulting o'er banks of flowers that glow 

 In lines of crimson, gold, and snow I " 



roses bloomed when the rose was made 

 the insignia of St. George and merrie England ? 

 Saint George's Day ia the 23rd of April, and the 

 faintest blush of a wild rose cannot be perceived until 

 summer is at hand. But now we may begin to look 

 on their arched sprays for the clustered buds, which 

 will succeed the hawthorn and sweet-scented May. 

 The common Dog Eose (Rosa canina), with its pale 

 pink flowers, sweet-scented and delicate, is the most 

 frequent of them all. I have noticed that the dog rose 

 is called the "canker flower" of Shakespeare. The 

 "canker" was the mossy excrescence the "fairies* 



