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those lines of Spenser, in which he tells the secret of success 
in every pursuit and aim of life:— 
“ In vain do men 
The heavens of their fortune’s fault accuse, 
Sith they know best what is the best for them $ 
For they to each such fortune to diffuse 
As they do know each can most aptly use. 
For not that which men covet most is best, 
Nor that thing worst which men do most refuse; 
But fittest is, that all contented rest 
With that they hold : each hath his fortune in his breast.” 
In selecting roses for quality, you must know in what 
quality consists. You will soon discover that there are many 
kinds of roses of kigli quality which revolve, as it were, like 
planets around the central Ideal Rose that grows only in 
the innermost chamber of the Amateur’s cerebrum. Every 
individual rose, when you come to play critic, will be found to 
have its own defects as well as its own excellences, and there 
will be a separate reason, therefore, in every separate case for 
growing that particular rose. To enter into a discussion of 
properties, however, would carry us far beyond reasonable 
limits, and therefore we make short work of this part of the 
subject by a series of brief explanations of the terms em¬ 
ployed in the description of exhibition roses. 
The leading contours of roses may be comprised under 
the following heads: Globular, Reflexed, Expanded, Cupped, 
and Half-cupped, or Tazza-shaped ; which forms will result 
from the centre, the face, the profile, and the size, shade, and 
depth of petal. 
1st, The Globular is almost invariably double, and well- 
formed, the centres being full of 
small leaflets, the exterior petals 
sometimes folded over at the 
^ j/ points with great elegance and 
J regularity, as in Chabrilland and 
d Senateur Yaisse. A variety of 
globular, this form sometimes arises from 
the whole of the petals being incurved as in Madame Pierson 
and Robert Eortune. The petals are large, and profile 
deep. 
2nd. The Reflexed has a high centre, from which the 
ItEFLEXED. 
