Arrangement itj 



precious on the morning of a show; and returning 

 to the boxes with a bloom in each hand and a 

 couple between one's teeth, it is a sore hindrance to 

 remember another tree at the farthest point of the 

 Rosary, which possibly carries the best bloom of all. 

 Taste in arrangement consists with the exhibitor in 

 the harmonious grouping of his cut Roses, not in 

 the gracefulness of his ground or of his trees. He 

 appeals not to the general public, but to the con- 

 noisseur ; not to the court,^ but to the judge. 



In a Rose-garden not subject to any such restraint 

 — not the drill-ground of our Queen's Body-guard, 

 but the holiday assemblage of Her people — no 

 formalism, no flatness, no monotonous repetition 

 should prevail. There should the Rose be seen in 

 all her multiform phases of beauty. There should 

 be beds of Roses, banks of Roses, bowers of Roses, 

 hedges of Roses, edgings of Roses, pillars of Roses, 

 arches of Roses, fountains of Roses, baskets of Roses, 

 vistas and alleys of the Rose. Now overhead and 

 now at our feet, there they should creep and climb. 

 New tints, new forms, new perfumes, should meet us 

 at every turn. Here we come upon a bed of seed- 



^ A Lancaishire witness hearing words ascribed to him by a con- 

 ceited young barrister (with a new wig and a turned-up nose) which 

 he had not spoken, jumped up and wrathfully protested, 'Why, 

 yer powder-yedded monkey, I never said note o' th' sort — I appeal 

 to th* company 1 ' 



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