PREFACE. 



IT is universally admitted, that since the es- 

 tablishment of the Horticultural Society, the 

 art of gardening has made greater progress in 

 England than in any European country. In a 

 few specific branches,and more particularly in 

 the culture of roses, France, however, still 

 maintains the pre-eminence ; and while receiv- 

 ing from England her finest specimens of the 

 dahlia, sends us in return an annual importa- 

 tion of roses. Standards, and even stocks for 

 grafting, form a regular article of commerce. 



With a view to rendering our gardens inde- 

 pendent of these borrowed attractions, the fol- 

 lowing work upon the culture and propagation 

 of roses, as practised in France, has been put 

 together for the use ot the inexperienced Eng- 

 lish amateur : and, in order to make it practi- 





