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and here a bricklayer, and there a glazier, had made 

 his handicraft subserve his amusement; but the 

 accommodation, as a rule, was meagre, and I could 

 hardly believe that the grand Roses which we had 

 just left could have come, like some village beauty 

 out of her cottage dwelling, from such mean and 

 lowly homes. But there were the plants, and there 

 were the proprietors, showing me proudly the stems 

 from which such and such favourites were cut, and 

 pointing to various healthy and handsome rose-buds, 

 which, though belonging to junior branches of the 

 family, gave promise of equal beauty. 



How was it done ? De V abondance du cceur — 

 from a true love of the Rose. ' It's more nor a mile 

 from my house to my garden,' said one of these 

 enthusiasts to me, * but Fve been here for weeks, 

 in the winter months, every morning before I went 

 to my work, and every evening when I came from 

 it, and not seldom at noon as well, here and back, 

 and my dinner to get, between twelve and one 

 o'clock.' * How do you afford,' I inquired from 

 another, * to buy these new and expensive varieties 'i ' 

 and I would that every employer, that every one 

 who cares for the labouring poor, would remember 

 the answer, reflect, and act on it. * I'll tell you,' 

 he said, ' hov/ I managed to buy 'em — by keeping 

 away from the beershops 1 ' 



