24 PREFACE. 



feet or final. New varieties, new classes and 

 types, are being produced; by experience 

 we learn that modifications of old-established 

 principles are often necessary, and therefore 

 fresh gleanings from the Rose garden will 

 ever be acceptable and interesting when 

 coming from observing and loving devotees 

 of La Reinc. 



While, therefore, this book neither expects 

 nor desires to supersede its predecessors, it 

 asks admission to their fellowship, hoping 

 that it contains enough that is distinctive and 

 of merit to be considered companionable. 



H. B. E. 



MOUNT HOPE NURSERIES, ROCHESTER, 1882. 



