94 Eivers's Rose Amafeur^s Guide. 



adopted opinions which had better not appear in the book, 

 without some qualification. — J. Main. Chelsea, Dec. 15. 1837. 



Art. II. The Rose Amateur s Guide; containing ample Descriptions 

 of all the fine leading Varieties of Roses, regularly classed in their 

 respective Families, their History and Modes of Culture. In Two 

 Parts. Parti. The Summer Rose-Garden. Part II, The Autumnal 

 Rose-Garden. The whole arranged so as to form a Companion to 

 the Descriptive Catalogue of the Snwbridgeworth Collection of 

 Roses, publish<;d annually. By T. Rivers, jun. Large 8vo, pp. 95. 

 Price 5s. 6d. 



Our readers, by turning to our notice of the Descriptive Cata- 

 logue of Roses, p. 55., will find the exact arrangement of the Rose 

 Amateur's Guide ; which, it is proper to observe, is only a guide 

 as to the choice of sorts, and not as to their planting or culture, 

 or the formation of rosariums, as, from the title, one might be 

 led to expect. As far as it goes, however, it is excellent, and 

 the public are certainly greatly indebted to any nurseryman who, 

 like Mr. Rivers, devotes his especial attention to any tribe or 

 family of plants ; clears up their nomenclature ; describes the 

 more valuable kinds ; and engages to deal honestly and honour- 

 ably with the purchaser, in always giving him sorts true to their 

 names. We do not say that every British nurseryman does not 

 do this as far as he is able ; but this we do say, that there is not 

 one in a score of them that has it in his power to do it, for 

 want of the necessary knowledge. With respect to the French 

 nurserymen, let the reader peruse the following quotation from 

 Mr. Rivers's preface : — 



" In forming a collection of roses from the French gardeners, great difficulty 

 is often experienced by their incorrectness in the names of their plants : this 

 inattention, to call it by no worse name, has long been the bane of commercial 

 gardening. In this country, almost every nurseryman is now aw. re of the 

 great responsibility he is under as to correct nomenclature. But, in France, 

 they manage these matters differently, certainly not " better ; " for, if a 

 Parisian cultivator raises a good rose from seed, and gives it a popular name, 

 a provincial florist will immediately give some one of his seedlings, perhaps a 

 very inferior rose, the same name, so that there are often two or three roses 

 bearing the same name ; and, if the original or most superior variety is 

 ordered, ten to one if you can get it ; as the French florist generally gives 

 you that which is most convenient for him to send, quite regardless of what 

 you wish for. This is carried to an extreme of which only those well and 

 intimately acquainted with roses can form a just idea." (p. v.) 



Art. III. Literary Notices. 



Kollar's History of the Insects injurious to Gardeners and 

 Farmers, illustrated by engravings ; translated from the German 



