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 BOTANICA 



PREFACE TO NEW EDITION. 



In presenting a new edition of tliis work, we have 

 carefully revised the garden classification. With the 

 first edition was published a list of nineteen hundred 

 and sixty-six vai'ieties, with their synonyms. The great 

 increase since then has doubtless doubled that number. 



When the first edition was published, the growing 

 of roses for bouquets and other decorations was yet in its 

 infancy; now the sales of cut flowers in New York alone, 

 amount to millions of dollars, while among them all 

 Roses take the lead. During the past year, there has 

 been almost a rose mania. Single blooms of new roses 

 have been sold at twelve dollars per dozen, and, tempted 

 by these large prices, gentlemen of wealth are putting up 

 houses for the forcing of roses extensively for sale. 

 Thus our chosen flower is daily receiving new honors, 

 and continuing to be the favorite above all others. 



We have stricken out much of the poetry, which to the 

 cultivator may have seemed irrelevant if not worthless, 

 and for the interest of the classical scholar, have retained 

 much of the early history of the Rose, and its connection 

 with the manners and customs of the two great nations 

 of a former age. 



For many interesting facts in the History and Culture 

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