36 Woodside. 



As we leave this delightful nook a cottage comes in sight r 

 and we notice that 

 " The honeysuckle round the porch hath woven its wavy bowers," 



whilst over the walls and in the garden are the most lovely 

 roses, and wild roses festoon the hedges and woods around. 

 Indeed, many of the hedges of this country lane might have 

 been that which Keats described as 



"A filbert hedge with wild brier overtwined, 

 And clumps of woodbine, taking the soft wind 

 Upon their summer thrones." 



Tor "filbert" we must read "hazel," and then the 

 portrait is exact, for most of the hedges here are fragrant 

 with the delicious scent of the honeysuckle, and o'erhung 

 with the pendent branches of the brier. 



Lovely rose ! the floral emblem of England, the symbol of 

 love, the ideal of beauty and of fragrance ! Does not *the 

 poet give perfect life to the ideality of its fragrance in the 

 beautiful lines 



" You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. 

 The scent of the roses will cling to it still " ? 



Have you ever examined our wild roses ? If not, do so as 

 you take your walks abroad whenever and wherever you may 

 find them. On dry sandy banks, especially near the seashore, 

 grows a rose whose stem is thickly covered with slender 

 prickles, and which has a large, solitary, cream-coloured 

 flower. This is called the Burnet rose (Fig. 11). Then 

 in our country lanes, more especially those of our northern 

 counties, there is another kind which forms an upright bush 

 about three feet high ; its leaves are very hairy, and its 

 flowers appear very early in the summer. This is well 



