PREFACE. 



HERE have been so many works 

 on the Rose produced within the 

 past twenty years, several of them 

 being very valuable and interest- 

 ing, that a few words may not be out of place, 

 to explain why it was thought desirable to 

 add to the number. The most useful of these 

 compilations are English works, but the dif- 

 ferences of climate, etc., render necessary, 

 for this country, a modification and change 

 in the directions for culture. The same rea- 

 sons will lead us to select a somewhat differ- 

 ent list of varieties for general cultivation 

 from what would be chosen by English Ro- 

 sarians ; besides all this, there is the expect- 

 ant feeling which impels all authors, that the 

 half has not been told, that in a subject like 

 this no compilation can ever be deemed per- 



