96 THE ROSE. 



the intermediate in the middle of your hoxes. 

 They become by this arrangement so gradually, 

 beautifully less, that the disparity of size is im- 

 perceptible. Transgress this rale, and the result 

 will be disastrous, ludicrous, as when some huge 

 London carriage -horse is put in harness with the 

 paternal cob, or as when some small but ambi- 

 tious dancer runs round and round the tallest girl 

 at the ball in the gyrations of the mazy waltz. 

 . . The arrangement of roses with regard 

 to their color has not been studied as it deserves 

 to be. The amateur with more leisure than the 

 man of business for the study of the beautiful, 

 and f 01 the most effective display of liis fewer 

 flowers, ought to excel, but, as a rule, does not. 

 His roses are very rarely made the most of in this 

 respect, but are frequently marred and spoiled, 

 the colors clashing and contending with each 

 other instead of combining against their common 

 adversary. It is told of a highly sensitive dame 

 whose silly pride was in dress, that she went into 

 hysterics before a large party when her great 

 rival in millinery came and sat upon the ottoman 

 beside her in a grand garment of the same color 

 as her own, but of a much more brilliant and 



