IN TR OD UC TION. 2 1 



As for out-of-door roses, who may state the 

 favorites among so many of the fair? Let 

 each one decide their merits for himself ; and, 

 revelling in their wealth of beauty as it un- 

 folds with each recurring blossom-tide, re- 

 peat with Omar : 



Look to the blowing Rose about us " Lo, 

 Laughing," she says, "into the world I blow, 

 At once the silken tassel of my Purse 

 Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw. " 



GEORGE H. ELLWANGER. 

 ROCHESTER, Oct., 1892. 



