THE GENUS ROSA 



BY ELLEN WILLMOTT 



DRAWINGS BY ALFRED PARSONS, A.R.A. 



With 128 Coloured Plates and 56 Drawings of Fruits in Black and 



White. Crown Folio. In not less than 20 and not more than 



24 Parts. 1, IB. net each Part. 



Parts I -XI 1 1 Now Ready. The succeeding numbers will follow at 

 intervals of one month. 



After many years of expectation, and of delay due to unforeseen causes, the 

 first parts of Miss Willmott's great work on roses are now published. 



The work will contain 128 coloured plates in addition to 56 drawings of fruits in 

 black and white, with corresponding letterpress, giving the scientific description in 

 Latin and English, the full synonymy, and details of information relating to each 

 Rose. There will also be an Illustrated Glossary and an Index. 



The book will give an account, with illustrations, of the most distinct and inter- 

 esting species of the Roses of the Old and New Worlds. Some natural hybrids and 

 a few first crosses and old Garden Roses have been included when they seemed 

 necessary to the complete treatment of the subject. 



In its preparation Miss Willmott has had the assistance of Mr J. G. Baker, 

 F.R.S., late Keeper of the Royal Herbarium at Kew; of Canon Ellacombe, of 

 Bitton ; and of the late Rev. Charles Wolley-Dod, of Edge. 



The drawings have been made by Mr Alfred Parsons, A.R.A., principally from 

 the specimens growing at Warley and Tresserve, and they have been reproduced in 

 chromolithography by Mr Griggs. Infinite pains have been taken to preserve the 

 character of the originals, and in many cases there have been over twenty printings 

 to one plate, in order to produce all the tints. 



Redoute's "Les Roses," with the text by Thory, appeared in 1817, and con- 

 tained very fine hand-coloured plates. Lindley's " Rosarum Monographia " 

 appeared in 1820 and contained 19 coloured plates, and although now incomplete, 

 gives an excellent account of the roses then known. The time seems therefore to 

 have arrived for a new treatise on this universally admired genus. 



This edition will be strictly limited, and will not be reprinted. 



WORKS BY WILLIAM ROBINSON 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN 

 AND HOME GROUNDS 



DESIGN AND ARRANGEMENT SHOWN BY EXISTING EXAMPLES OF GARDENS 



IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, FOLLOWED BY A DESCRIPTION OF 



THE PLANTS, SHRUBS, AND TREES FROM THE OPEN-AIR GARDEN, 



AND THEIR CULTURE. 



Illustrated with many Engravings on Wood. Eleventh Edition. 

 Medium 8vo. 15s. net. 



JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, LONDON, W. 



