vi PREFACE 



fit usefully into a space as yet unfilled in garden 

 literature. 



In order that the book may be a complete Rose 

 manual, I have had the pleasure of working in 

 concert with Mr. Edward Mawley, who, in the 

 second part, gives the result of his long experience 

 as a practical rosarian. 



I have to offer grateful acknowledgment to Miss 

 Willmott for a considerable number of excellent 

 photographs, and for valuable help in compiling 

 the list of Rose species as garden plants ; to Mr. 

 W. Robinson for permission to reproduce some 

 Rose portraits from former coloured plates in The 

 Garden; to Mr. Edward Woodall for the chapter 

 on Riviera Garden Roses ; to Mr. E. T. Cook for 

 frequent advice and assistance, and to the owners 

 of The Garden and Country Life for a number of 

 the illustrations. 



Lists of Roses for special purposes are given at 



the end of some of the chapters where it appeared 



that they would be most of use. At the end of the 



book are also descriptive lists, and an alphabetical 



list of the best Roses in all classes. A note of the 



abbreviations used against the Rose names appears 



at p. 149. It will be understood that the lists of 



the Roses given are not complete lists of all the 



Roses known, but careful and well-proved selections 



of the best. 



G.J. 



