[…] the trellis-work of lace and ruffles […]

A man giving a gift of roses is wooing a woman.

The plant from Heald Brow is terricole, occurring on loose sandy calcareous earth about the entrances to rabbit-holes, in a very dry locality, Heald Brow being a dry hill on the scar-limestone.

The feeling is difficult to describe, but not unpleasant.