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A Rose Garden Planting Scheme 



PAUL'S ROVAL NURSERIES, 



IValtham Cross, Herts. 



(WM. PAUL AND SON.) 



" With the Rose the name of Paul is almost as 

 intimately associated as that of Stephenson with rail- 

 ways or Cobden with Free Trade." — The Field. 



" The Roses of Mr. Paul are things to see once 

 and dream of for ever." — The AthencBuyn. 



These nurseries were founded about 60 years ago 

 by the late Mr. William Paul, F.L.S., V.M.H., one of 

 the pioneers of Rose-growing as now practised, and 

 the author of The Rose Garden, a standard work on 

 Rose culture, which, first published in 1848, reached 

 its loth edition during the author's lifetime, and was 

 translated into several European languages. In ad- 

 tion to The Rose Garden, ^Ir. Wm. Paul published 

 other works on Roses, and was a frequent contributor 

 to the horticultural Press on all matters pertaining to 

 Roses, whilst as a practical cultivator his successes as 

 a grower and exhibitor of Roses and a raiser of new 

 varieties procured for the nurseries a world-wide repu- 

 tation. At the death of Mr. Wm. Paul in [905, the 

 business was converted into a private limited com- 

 pany, under the direction of his son and partner, Mr. 

 Arthur W'illiam Paul, who still retains the manage- 

 ment, and in whose hands the earlier successes of the 

 establishment have been well maintained. On the 

 raising of new varieties Mr. A. W. Paul has read 

 papers in public on various occasions, and he has also 

 lectured on the Literature of the Rose, his collection 

 of which in various languages is one of the most com- 

 plete in existence. Among the many new Roses that 

 have been raised at Waltham Cross in recent years 

 may be mentioned the ever-beautiful Ophelia, the bril- 



