THE ROSE. 



I. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



O two books, treating of the rose, 

 exactly agree as to the different 

 groups tinder which roses should 

 be classed, and those who expect 

 some slight variance in this work from what 

 has preceded it, in other compilations, will 

 not be wrong in their conjectures. 



There has been such an infinitude of 

 crosses made between different groups, by 

 means natural and artificial, that it would be 

 rather remarkable to find two writers who 

 would assign the same varieties through- 

 out, to the same classes. So it is that, 

 by the various conjectures and opinions of 

 the different authors, much confusion and 

 perplexity has been engendered. Some, 

 in order that the character of a variety 

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