"Begin the art of finding peace. 

 Beloved: it is art, no less. 

 Sometimes we find it hid beneath 



The orchards in their springtime dress; 

 Sometimes one finds it in oak woods, 



Sometimes in dazzling mountain-snows; 

 In books, sometimes. But pray begin 

 By finding it within a rose." 

 — With a Rose, to Brunhilde — Vachel Lindsay. 



CHAPTER XV 



Roses and Their Special Culture 



OF all things the rose is the most adaptable, 

 so whatever the style or the size of a garden 

 there are roses suitable for it — roses that are 

 shrubs, others that are climbing and will grow 

 where there is room for nothing at all, and still 

 others that require as exclusive possession of 

 their particular situation as the haughtiest vege- 

 table. Which is not the far-fetched simile that 

 it may appear, since I know of nothing that is 

 more exacting than almost any vegetable at all ! 

 Do we not give them free rein and cater to all 

 their little fads as if they were royalties — as in- 

 deed they are.? 



