IHfl IN A GLOUCESTERSHIRE GARDEN 



another reaped the Austrian brier i* different from all 

 other roues. We naturally connect roses with a sweet 

 scent : 



' The rM look* fair, btjt f airr-r v it doem 

 For that wrt cxtotir that doth in tt live.' 



Yet many of the modern hybrids are quite scentless, 

 and the Austrian brier ha* actually an offensive scent, 

 so that it was called by the old writers 4 /to*i /</i</<i/ 

 4 IluM ijr*\r<ft.t\tn.t fimjdfj Aorf fjSuJ ni^ro in/wj /M/^O," while 

 a modem writer says, ' liay says that the flowers smell 

 like honrv ; to me thev smdl more lik<> bupi ' I can 

 <>ily say for mys*If that the ovil smoll is much ex- 

 aggerated . it exists, but is very li^ht, and must be 

 sought fr. Hut it is not n |wpular nw. because it is 

 ditlifiilt of cultivation, or rather capricious. The I>ean 

 >f IJiM-hivHtor, the threat master in n< % growing, has said 

 that he cannot prow it. I ^row it, but not as well as I 

 should wish, while in a neighbour's garden it grows 

 like a wei>|. sending up suckers in every direction , and 

 in a neighbouring village the rectory house h.id once a 

 grand specimen [trained to an eo.nt w.-ill. .^ri'l in the 

 (lowering season (unfortunately a short one) the plant 

 seen in full sun with many flowers open was really a 

 gorgeous sighL And that reminds me to say that this 

 in a very good way of growing the sweet-brier. I do 



