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Excerpt from Good Words for 1881 Making up his mind to the manner of mankind, with a cultivator's patience, he passed beneath clusters encroaching on the headway, and went into a tiny transept parted from the rest of the house by a narrow door of glass. Here was a separate shrine for flowers, intolerant of heat, and demanding air, beyond the young vine's capacity. Choice geraniums lived here, and roses, heaths and epacrids, and double violets, lilies of the valley, sweetest of all bloom, Daphne, and the graceful deutzia, pansies also freaked with velvet braid, the double black polyan thus, and the white chalice of azalea. But best and dearest of all to him, and set in a separate nook, as in a glazed bureau with lifting glass, that exquisite flower of exclusive worship, that gorgeous instance of nature and art combined to do their utmost, the magically beautiful auricula. No gardener is worth his manure, who has not a fine conceit of his own skill. I should like to have some of those Lancashire fellows, or a few of those Kentish braggarts here, this man said aloud, being apt to encourage his thoughts, when alone, with the company of words 3 if I know anything of the matter, this green-edged seedling, beauti fully named 'dartmoor Oasis, ' by my Rose 3 and this grand self, one could gaze at all the day; and above all this white-edge, this glorious white-edge, worthily entitled Cream of Devon, ' - have they anything fit to hold a candle to them? Consider the paste, take the measure of the thrum, dwell upon the band, can you spy a single slur? Above all, if you have a particle of judgment, observe the equality of the pips, the perfection of ful ness, and true circle of the truss, and the grand, columnar, mealy, magnificent, staunchly upright, and splendidly proportioned - really you might say, pillar of the stalk l Overpowered, alike by his eloquence and the beauty that produced it, he stopped for a moment with some gravel in his hand, with which he was going to top-dress his pots, when the little door was opened, and his Rose came in 3 after which the most rapturous gardener might scarcely look even at his own auriculas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
