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be an outer promenade of gravel, smooth and dry for 

 the thinnest boots, when the turf is damp with rain 

 or dew. 



I would have the approaches to a Rosary made 

 purposely obscure and narrow, that the visitor may 

 come with a sudden gladness and wonder upon the 

 glowing scene, as the traveller by rail emerges from 

 the dark tunnel into the brightness of day and a fair 

 landscape ; or, as some dejected whist-player finds, at 

 the extremity of wretched cards, the ace, king, and 

 queen of trumps ! I should like to conduct the 

 visitors to my Rosarium between walls of rock-work, 

 thickly set with those unassuming but exquisite 

 Alpine plants, of which my friend, Mr Robinson, to 

 whose book on Arrangement I just now referred, has 

 given us such a complete and charming history,^ 

 or through high fern-covered banks ; and, by a 

 sudden turn at the end of our avenue, to dazzle him 

 into an ecstasy. He should feel as Kane the 

 explorer did, when after an Arctic winter he saw the 

 sun shine once more, and ^ felt as though he were 

 bathing in perfumed waters.' 



Although water offered itself in a fair running 

 stream for introduction into the Rose-garden, I should 

 hesitate timidly as to its admission. Charming as it 



1 'Alpine Flowers.' London: Murray. 



