. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . difficulty, and which hadneeded most constant care. Every known and un-known insect seemed to assail it, and every blemishand blight. John Holmes had spent many an hourbathing with care each delicate leaf and stem withtobacco water, or intently searching for injuring in-sects. The green fly did not deter him, nor whitescale, nor even the loathly worm, the slug,—these he attacked bare-handed. But this Rose-bushseemed fated to disaster; when a great limb wasblown fro
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . difficulty, and which hadneeded most constant care. Every known and un-known insect seemed to assail it, and every blemishand blight. John Holmes had spent many an hourbathing with care each delicate leaf and stem withtobacco water, or intently searching for injuring in-sects. The green fly did not deter him, nor whitescale, nor even the loathly worm, the slug,—these he attacked bare-handed. But this Rose-bushseemed fated to disaster; when a great limb wasblown from the elm tree it was borne by the windand hurled on the Rose-bush. When the strongacid for a solution to assail the Rose-beetle came 2 E 41S Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday with misprinted directions, — the word gram insteadof grain, — it was this tender Rose-bush which re-ceived the withering hquid in its cruel they despaired of rearing it, and withsensible reasoning tried to persuade themselves intodigging it up and destroying it. But as with adelicate child or pet of any kind, they really loved. Chinese Pedestal for Dial, Floral Park, Long Island. it the more for the very labor they spent on it —and they loved it, too, though they had never seen itin bloom. Mercy said a little impatiently that she never expected to see that Rose-bush year, by the extraordinary advice of a Rose-growing and avowedly Rose-wise friend, they pickedoff the buds to try to strengthen the sickly bush ;then came a curious blight ever unexplained; then a Rural Saints and Prophets 419 frost — and in June, too — a frost hoary enough tonip again the promise of bloom. But this year theRose-bush bore in triumph a beautiful crown of ascore of pressing, rounded buds, a glorious promiseof fullest beauty ; but it was part of the fate of theRose-bush and of Mercy, that on the day when thisrich coronal burst into its fulfilment of glowingruby bloom — patient Mercy di
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