PREFACE. 
4g) TERE have been so many works 
on the Rose produced within the 
past twenty years, several of them 
being very valuable and interest- 
ing, that a few words may not be out of place, 
to explain why it was thought desirable to 
add tothe number. The most useful of these 
compilations are English works, but the dif- 
ferences of climate, etc., render necessary, 
for this country, a modification and change 
in the directions for culture. The same rea- 
sons will lead us to select a somewhat differ- 
ent list of varieties for general cultivation 
from what would be chosen by English Ro- 
sarians; besides all this, there is the expect- 
ant feeling which impels all authors, that the 
half has not been told, that in a subject like 
this no compilation can ever be deemed per- 
