Growing on the three trellises against the south wall is David Austin's very first, and according to some, his most spectacular, English Rose - a rambler named Constance (really Constance Spry). There are three of these vines, so we have found three ladies of that name in English literature. Chaucer's Custance, whose name is a form of the name Constance, is set adrift and chastely "rambles" all over the seas of Europe in "The Man of Law's Tale," as our rose rambles over her trellis. The second Constance rose represents a woman holding the rank of "lady," and her rambling is far from chaste: on one occasion her gamekeeper-lover decorates her intimately with wildflowers. Our third Constance is the betrayed lover of Scott's poem "Marmion," who becomes gallant in her last moments. Everyone has heard of the sexy novel about Connie and the gamekeeper (____ _________ ______ by _ _ _______), but fewer have encountered Chaucer's Custance or Sir Walter Scott's Constance, so you are not asked to play the guessing game on these two roses.