. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . d the pleasures of the from all that was vicious, he wasmore than tolerant of what was harmless and calculnted to afford pleasure, brighten thelabours of life, or alleviate its cognisant of human infirmity, he wasever ready to put a charitalile interpretationupon matters which others would havetreated with cold aversion or perhaps resent-ment. Was there ever one, for instance, whocould turn aside the wrath of a discontentedexhibitor as he could do? Was there ev(ra publi
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . d the pleasures of the from all that was vicious, he wasmore than tolerant of what was harmless and calculnted to afford pleasure, brighten thelabours of life, or alleviate its cognisant of human infirmity, he wasever ready to put a charitalile interpretationupon matters which others would havetreated with cold aversion or perhaps resent-ment. Was there ever one, for instance, whocould turn aside the wrath of a discontentedexhibitor as he could do? Was there ev(ra public speaker who could, on fitting occa-sion, more fully attract the sympathy of his by his Book about Hoses can never be ade-quately estimated. It is not scientific, itis not technical, one would not turn to itas a book of reference; but it is literary,and it has the inestimable quality of sym-pathy. It is almost impossible to read itwithout sharing the writers many were tempted to become Rose-growers from reading his pages is Hole was born at. the rev. S. R. HOLE, , VICAR OF CAUNTON, IN 1870. audience by his playful banter and drollhumour than he could ? As to his career, we all know what it was,and the daily papers have instructed the out-side pul)lie who were not familiar with from his ecclesiastical duties, whichby the way were performed with a zeal andearnestness which were novel when heentered the Church, he was a good exampleof the English country gentleman—culturedbut not pedantic, fond of country life,addicted to sport, passionately fond of hisgarden, and of Eoses in particular. Howmuch pleasure he bestowed on his fellows Caunton Manor, Newark, in 1819. In duetime he proceeded to Brasenose College,Oxford. Oxonians will remember with relishhis humorous stories of Oxford in the earlyforties. He took orders, and became first ofall Curate, afterwards Vicar of Caunton, andat the same time squire, fulfilling both
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