VIU PREFACE TO THE TENTH EDITION. 



themselves. From the former I have culled the 

 choicest and the sweetest, bidding adieu to many 

 old varieties, on account of their being surpassed 

 by some that are new, but retaining those old 

 roses not to be surpassed, i.e. those that are abso- 

 lutely perfect in their form and colouring, which 

 will all be found in their places : for it would 

 indeed be unjust to neglect a good old friend with 

 sterling qualities. 



In cultivation much improvement has taken 

 place ; and rapid progress has been made in the 

 culture of roses in pots : under this head I have 

 given fully the results of my experience. In the 

 articles on propagation, the fruits of more than 

 thirty pleasant years' unceasing attention are 

 given with candour. I have nothing withheld, 

 nor, I trust, aught forgotten. 



A practical cultivator, in writing on cultiva- 

 tion, labours under a disadvantage ; he almost 

 obstinately supposes that everyone must know 

 something relative to these, with him, every-day 

 operations : he is apt, therefore, not to go suffi- 

 ciently into detail. I have strenuously combated 

 this feeling, and humbly trust that what I have 

 written on that subject will be found sufficiently 

 explicit. 



BoifKS Hill, Sawbridge-worth, Herts : 

 November, 1872. 



