PREFACE. LIBRARY 



NEW YORK 

 BOTANrCAL 



I WROTE A Book about Roses, because, having grown them 

 lovingly and shown them successfully for more than twenty 

 years, I thought that the results of my experience would 

 be acceptable to others ; and the demand for a third 

 edition, nine months after the publication of the first, has 

 realised my happiest hope. The present volume, carefully 

 revised, after an inspection of the great Rose-shows of the 

 season, at which, as one of the judges, I had special 

 facilities of observation — after visits to public and private 

 Rosaries — and after much interesting conversation and 

 correspondence with our chief Rosarians — will be found 

 to contain the latest intelligence and the best information 

 as to the selection and the cultivation of Roses. 



S. REYNOLDS HOLE. 



C") Caunton Manor, August 1870. 





