24 PREFACE. 
fect or final. New varieties, new classes and 
types, are being produced; by experience 
we learn that modifications of old-established 
principles are often necessary, and therefore 
fresh gleanings from the Rose garden will 
ever be acceptable and interesting when 
coming from observing and loving devotees 
of La Reine. 
While, therefore, this book neither expects 
nor desires to supersede its predecessors, it 
asks admission to their fellowship, hoping 
that it contains enough that is distinctive and 
of merit to be considered companionable. 
BH. BE, 
MouNT Hope NURSERIES, ROCHESTER, 1882. 
