(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.