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their own in an ignoble place under some standards, 

 and failing sadly still. Spenser, also, in which I 

 indulged freely without any experience to guide 

 me, turned out to be scentless, and though in most 

 years an admirable doer, it is consequently devoid 

 of charm for me. It is a sport from Baroness 

 Rothschild, or from her progeny Her Majesty, and 

 inherits this bad quality from her. 



EATS ALL THE BLOOMS HE CAN REACH 



July 75. Crimson Rambler over a bower is 

 looking exquisite. It ought to be grown with 

 The Garland, if any combination is desired with 

 it. The two bloom together, and the white and 

 crimson look well intermixed. An old-fashioned 

 evergreen rose, Flora, on a north wall is good in 

 many useful respects. It makes rampant wood, 

 and one can cut great boughs of it for the house. 

 Its shell-tinted little blossoms are beautiful of their 

 kind, though they would not satisfy those persons 



