4 PREFACE TO J?^EW EDITION. 



of the Rose, we are indebted to Deslongchamps, Vibert, 

 Laffay, and several anonymous writers. To the former 

 we wish most fully to express our obligations, both for 

 the plan of this work and for many interesting facts and 

 researches, to which we cannot conveniently attach his 

 name in the body of the work. 



Upon the classification we have bestowed much 

 thought, and although we do not feel quite satisfied with 

 the system we have adopted, it is the best that occurs to 

 us in the present condition of Rose Culture. The amateur 

 will, we think, find the labor of selection much dimin- 

 ished by the increased simplicity of the mode we have 

 adopted, while the commercial gardener will in nowise 

 be injured by the change. 



In directions for culture, we give the results of our 

 own practice, and have not hesitated to avail ourselves 

 of any satisfactory results in the experience of others, 

 which might enhance the utility of the work. 



For our labor we shall feel abundantly compensated, if 

 this work, in its enlarged form, shall in any way tend to 

 produce a more general admiration and increased culture 

 of the most beautiful flower known. S. B. P. 



Flushing, New York, October, 1882. 



