Our garden is putting in order by a man who bears a remarkably good character, has a very fine complexion, and asks something less than the first. The shrubs which border the gravel walk, he says, are only sweetbriar and roses, and the latter of an indifferent sort; we mean to get a few of a better kind, therefore, and at my own particular desire he procures us some syringas. I could not do without a syringa, for the sake of Cowper’s line. We talk also of a laburnum. The border under the terrace wall is clearing away to receive currants and gooseberry bushes, and a spot is found very proper for raspberries.
Jane Austen to Cassandra
February 8, 1807
Jane Austen to Cassandra
February 8, 1807
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variants: or sweetbrier
Definition of sweetbriar
: an Old World rose (especially Rosa eleganteria) with stout recurved prickles and white to deep rosy-pink single flowers
— called also eglantine
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