wichurianas

Updated: July 9, 2025

Folks'll never persuade me that the old H.P.'s don't do best for Cornwall; but when you go in for exhibition there's the judges and their fads to be considered, and the rage nowadays is all for Teas and high centres. . . . When first I heard as that parcel of ground was likely to come in the market, I sat down and planned how I'd lay it out with three long beds for the very best Teas, and fence off the top with a rose hedge Wichurianas or Penzance sweet briars and call it my Jubilee Garden; next year bein' the Diamond Jubilee, you know.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Hocken and Hunken