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water, of course) to possess it. The blooms were cut, 

 be informs me, from a tree wbicb is grown in a 

 large span-roofed greenhouse, and makes a growth of 

 from fifteen to twenty feet, flowering freely. Gaudete 

 sodales ! Surely a wall covered with Charles Lefebvre 

 and Marechal Kiel in the middle of April will leave 

 nothing for the rosarian to desire, except a robust 

 climbing Marie Baumann with flowers as white as 

 snow. 



So always, and go where he may, the gentle 

 gardener shall find genial friends, and, though he 

 has left his apron at home, shall be recognized and 

 welcomed by the craft, just as we freemasons realize 

 our brotherhood, however far we have wandered from 

 our lodge. This I found to be specially certified, as 

 regards the former fraternity, in those fair gardens of 

 the duchy of Cornwall which it was niy happiness to 

 see ; and good reason had I to endorse the statement 

 of the old historian, Diodorus Siculus : " The natives 

 of that part of Britain which is called Belerium, to 

 wit, the Land's End, are not only hospitable, but 

 civilized in their living." Accordingly, when I had 

 finished my work, and, setting forth on a bright, 

 sunny morning for a holiday, with the glad conviction 

 that I had earned it, had strolled for a couple of 

 miles on the banks of the Fal vessels from Norway 

 unloading their great beams of timber on the right, 

 and great bushes of golden furze and silver black- 

 thorn showing on the left I saw on the opposite 

 bank of the ferry at Malpas (pronounced, with a 

 supreme disdain of its French appearance, Mopus) a 

 brother,, whom I hardly knew beyond the repute which 



