PREFACE 



SECOND EDITION. 



IN giving a Second Edition of this little work 

 to the public, I have to again beg indulgence, for 

 I fear that more than I have been able to perform 

 will be expected. Still I am induced to hope that 

 my hints and instructions for raising roses from 

 seed, most certainly original, will meet with the 

 approbation of rose amateurs. And when I ad- 

 duce as a fact, that some very pretty hybrid 

 China Roses were raised from seed in York- 

 shire, from a blush tea-scented rose, trained up 

 the rafters of an old greenhouse, and fertilised 

 with various hardy roses, it will certainly encou- 

 rage those who live further south to hope for suc- 

 cess without the aid of glass. 



The fear of being tedious, and the little know- 

 ledge I yet possess of the habits and flowers of many 

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