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CLASSIFICATION. 
S390 two books, treating of the rose, 
= exactly agree as to the different 
groups under which roses should 
41 be classed, and those who expect 
some sight variance in this work from what 
has preceded it, in other compilations, will 
not be wrong in their conjectures. 
There has been such an infinitude of 
crosses made between different groups, by 
means natural and artificial, that it would be 
rather remarkable to find two writers who 
would assign the same varieties through- 
out, to the same classes. So it is that, 
by the various conjectures and opinions of 
the different authors, much confusion and 
perplexity has been engendered. Some, 
in order that the character of a variety 
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