VI PREFACE TO THE ELEVENTH EDITION. 



raising ; the English seedlings are now fully as 

 good as any raised in France, and we may hope 

 that the improvement will continue. It is hardly 

 possible in a work like the book I venture to pub- 

 lish to keep a list of the most recent varieties 

 written up, but the new sorts are generally pointed 

 out in those weekly journals which may be said 

 almost to possess a Eose literature, so constant 

 and so numerous are the contributors. I conclude 

 in the hope that some day every man in England 

 will possess a cottage and garden, and that rose- 

 growing will be considered as one of the fine arts 

 calculated to refine both minds and manners. 



Sawbridgeworth : 

 Sej)temher 1877. 



