CAUSES OF SUCCESS 29 



wages, and something less than a good gardener's 

 house, show what earnest love can do ! Whenever 

 I see at an exhibition a white tie behind a box of 

 Roses, I know (although I may in days of youth- 

 ful exuberance have irreverently exclaimed to my 

 clerical friends, ^ Hollo, Butler! are you bringing 

 breakfast ? ') — I know that, almost as a rule, bright 

 gems shine within that case. And who but he can 

 tell the refreshment, the rest, the peace, which he 

 finds in his little garden, coming home from the 

 sick and the sorrowful, and here reminded that for 

 them and him there is an Eden, more beautiful 

 than the first, a garden where summer shall never 

 cease ! 



Here I would ask permission to digress briefly, 

 that I may confirm a very interesting statement 

 which was made after a florist dinner at Leicester^ 

 by the editor of The Gardener, and received with 

 hearty acclamations. He had been told, he said, 

 by a Scotch clergyman, that in his visitations from 

 house to house he had never met with an ungenial 

 reception where he had seen a plant in the window. 

 It was a promise of welcome ; it was a sign that 

 there dwelt within a love and yearning for the 

 beautiful ; it was an invitation for the sower to 

 sow. What tender memories, solaces, and hopes 



^ During the Provincial Show of the Royal Horticultural Society. 



