178 IN A GLOUCESTERSHIRE GARDEN 



the foreground, and which U well known to collector* 

 of mezzotints as forming one of the fine engraving* by 

 Earlom in 177?* from the Houghton picture*. 



But I leave theac few douMe* to *pe*k of tome of 

 the wild specie* of ro*o* which, though little grown 

 except in tatanical collection*, art? full of neauty and 

 in to rent. There arc al*oul fifty |ecic* of the grntu 

 /.Vi/i, found in all quarter* of the world, hut only in 

 the north temperate zone. Plenty of r*e* arr grown 

 in Australia, New Zealand, ami the Ca|*, Kul they 

 have leen introduced ly colonist*. Of course I can- 

 not njxvik of all the.*o fifty *j^< ir., I can out select a 

 few. In (Jreat liritain there are (according to Sir J. 

 Hooker) neven gol njxvie* with many varieties, of 

 which at lea*t two are garden favourite*. One in the 

 Hurnet roo, a very pretty little n*c an found on our 

 neAfthnrc*, and the parent of all our Set itch nM* ; and 

 the other i the itweet hrier. Thi* i* certainly the 

 eglantine of Sjcn*er, Shake.|Kan\ Miltn, nnd all 

 the old writer*, and though not common an a wild 

 plant, it can le found in many jiart* "f KngUrul, 

 r#|M*cially in the chalk district*. It him jerhap* the 

 mont delicate perfume of all roae*. and of all Hritinh 

 plants, and it has the faculty, e*|*-< ully after rain, 

 which all weet~*conted flower-* have not. of giving 

 out it* scent without lein: picked tr handled. It U 



