CAUSES OF FAILURE 



II 



gloom. So there the poor Rose-trees stand — through 

 the winter, ludibrium ventis, or without any air at all, 

 and in the spring a rialto, rendezvoi^s^ common-room, 

 and tap for all the riff-raff of the insect world — an 

 infirmary for all the diseases which the neglected 

 Rose is heir to. Some few, perhaps, may brave all 

 and bloom ; but they no more resemble the glorious 

 flowers which my lady saw at the Crystal Palace 

 than my little boy's toy railway train resembles the 

 Scotch express. 



In my next chapter I will tell what may be done 

 in a very small garden, by a ver)' poor man who 

 really loves the Rose. 



