138 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES 



adverse the position or the aspect, off they go Hke 

 lamp-lighters. With their shining leaves, and their 

 pretty clusters of white, pink-tinted flowers, they will 

 flourish where no others can grow — in the waste 

 places of the earth, in damp, dismal corners, under 

 trees, and up them, if you wish. Upon the blank 

 wall of two new rooms, having a western aspect, 

 I planted * Rampant,' sempervirens. Owing to the 

 proximity of another wall and of intermediate 

 shrubs, he was only gladdened occasionally with 

 a few kindly smiles from the setting sun ; and 

 though I gave him plentifully good soil and good 

 manure, I left him hoping against hope. The first 

 year he did little. I thought he was dying in his 

 dreary dungeon, but he was only planning his escape; 

 and out he bolted the next summer, making shoots 

 like salmon - rods, some more than 20 feet long. 

 * Rampant' must have had adult baptism, and was 

 well named by his sponsors, always reminding one 

 of a Lancashire anecdote, how a poor client waited 

 upon one Lawyer Cheek of Manchester, with a long 

 bill in his hand, and sighed, as he put down the 

 brass on the table, ^ They dunna call thee Cheek for 

 nought.' 



Other members of these two families are alike 

 successful in surmounting hardships — e.g,y among 

 the Ayrshires, Dundee Rambler, Queen of Belgians, 



