CONVERTING UGLINESS TO BEAUTY 65 



rough-built arbour, for they rush up and clothe it 

 with most cheerful willingness. 



The back-door region and back-yard of many a 

 small house may be a model of tidy dulness, or it 

 may be a warning example of sordid neglect ; but 

 a cataract of Rose bloom will in the one case give 

 added happiness to the well-trained servants of the 

 good housewife, and in the other may redeem the 

 squalor by its gracious presence, and even by its 

 clean, fresh beauty put better thoughts and desires 

 into the minds of slatternly people. 



What a splendid exercise it would be if people 

 would only go round their places and look for all 

 the ugly corners, and just think how they might be 

 made beautiful by the use of free-growing Roses. 

 Often there is some bare yard, and it has come within 

 my own experience to say to the owner, "Why not 

 have rambling Roses on these bare walls and arches?" 

 and to have the answer, " But we cannot, because the 

 yard is paved, or perhaps asphalted." Is not a grand 

 Rose worth the trouble of taking up two squares of 

 Egging or cemented surface ? 



