i6o A BOOK ABOUT ROSES 



some such a Rosary as I have suggested in the 

 chapter on Arrangement, together with a large 

 budding-ground annually devoted, fresh Briers or 

 Manetti on fresh soil, to the production of show 

 Roses. As a rule, the amateur who becomes a keen 

 exhibitor will eliminate the varieties which he cannot 

 show ; and the amateur who studies tout ensemble — 

 the completeness of the scene, diversity, abundance — 

 will rest satisfied with his exhibition at home. He 

 will grow, of course, the more perfect Roses, enume- 

 rated hereafter as Roses suitable for exhibition ; but 

 not requiring them in quantity, he will have ample 

 room to combine with them those varieties which, 

 though their individual flowers are not sufficiently 

 symmetrical for the show, have their own special 

 grace and beauty — the garden Roses, which I now 

 propose to discuss. 



He must not omit the blushing, fresh, fragrant 

 Provence. It was to many of us the Rose of our 

 childhood, and its delicious perfume passes through 

 the outer sense into our hearts, gladdening them with 

 bright and happy dreams, saddening them with lone 

 and chill awakings. It brings more to us than the 

 fairness and sweet smell of a Rose. We paused in 

 our play to gaze on it, with the touch of a vanished 

 hand in ours, with a father s blessing on our heads, 

 and a mother's prayer that we might never lose our 



