PKEFACE 



THIRD EDITION. 



THE public Having so highly favoured me as to 

 call for a Third Edition of this little work, I have 

 endeavoured to show my gratitude by giving the 

 result of long experience in the propagation of 

 this now very popular flower. I am induced to 

 flatter myself that the directions given in the 

 following pages for propagation and for the culti- 

 vation of roses in pots will be found both inter- 

 esting and profitable to the amateur ; in the former 

 I trust those given will be found sufficiently plain : 

 but I must observe that a practical cultivator here 

 finds some difficulty ; he, almost obstinately, sup- 

 poses that every one must know something 

 relative to those, with him, e very-day operations ; 

 he is apt therefore not to go sufficiently into 

 detail. I have, in writing on propagation, combatted 

 this feeling; and humbly hope that what I have 

 said will be found sufficiently explicit by an 

 indulgent public. 



Sawbridge worth, 

 Nov. 8, 1843. 



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