(Signed) Will Carleton.

LIII

Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live.

Napoleon.

A rose to the living is sweet. Clara Barton.

The roses are sweet, and blessed be they who bring them into one’s life. Clara Barton.

A heaven-sent gift, and blessing, is the rose,

Its grace inspireth aspirations high. E. G. Browne.

The red rose has been blazoned with a boar’s head on the Barton crest ever since the War of the Roses.

Dr. William E. Barton.