2 BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS 



garden without feeling an impulse to grow flowers not merely 

 to put them into the ground, but to arrange them in such a 

 way that they form harmonies of form and colour? That im- 

 pulse conies to the meanest of human beings, and it proves two 

 things : the first, that poor, wayward humanity is capable of being 

 swayed by emotions which make for peace and beauty ; the second, 

 that f&p&&- ft&Me, t the power of awakening those dormant feelings. 

 A/gartJisrU .th'Sfti becomes more than a mere minister to the grosser 

 appetites.' It 'is hot simply an instrument of pleasure. 



The Rose of our love is not the Rose of the show tent, but of 

 the flower-bed, arch, pillar, and pergola. It is the Rose that swings 

 golden, and pink, and crimson clusters lightly in the summer 

 breezes. It is the Rose of the Rubdiydt of Omar Khayyam : 



" Look to the Rose that blows about us, Lo, 

 Laughing, she says, into the world I blow : 

 At once the silken tassel of my purse 

 Tear, and its Treasure on the garden throw." 



it is the Rose of Shakespeare (Henry VI.): 



"Then will I raise aloft the milk-white Rose 

 With whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed." 



It is the Rose of Dunbar, the Scottish poet, who wrote, long 

 years before Shakespeare was born : 



" Nor hold none other flower in sic dainty 

 As the fresh Rose of colour red and white; 

 For if thou dost, hurt is thine honesty, 

 Considering that no flower is so perfite, 

 So full of virtue, pleasaunce, and delight, 

 So full of blissful, angelic beauty, 

 Imperial birth, honour and dignity. 1 ' 



We will learn a little about the most beautiful types of Roses, 

 and further, how to use them in the ways that Nature teaches. 



We read of Perpetual Roses, Tea Roses, Hybrid Tea Roses, 

 Damask Roses, China Roses, Moss Roses, and Monthly Roses. 



