PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH EDITION. 



With all the happiness which success brings 

 to an author, I respond to the demand of an 

 intelligent world for a new edition of my book ; 

 and, in grateful appreciation of their sympathies, 

 I have the pleasure of introducing to my readers 

 thirty new and beautiful Roses (see List of Roses 

 for Exhibition), which have recently won our 

 admiration as Maids of Honor in Queen Rosa's 

 Court, together with the latest results of my 

 experience, and the best information I possess, 

 as to the culture of the Flower of flowers. 



S. REYNOLDS HOLE. 



Caunton Manor, 

 Newark-on-Trent, July, 1880. 



