INTRODUCTION TO REVISED EDITION. 



O comprehensively and intelligent- 

 ly has the theme been treated in 

 the following monograph by one 

 who was eminently qualified to 

 render it justice, that little remains to be said 

 of the Rose in general. But during the past 

 decade since " The Rose" was written by the 

 late Henry B. Ellwanger, a host of new varie- 

 ties have been produced and disseminated in 

 the United States and in Europe. Those 

 which have proven themselves most worthy to 

 be retained have been included with their de- 

 scriptions in the subjoined catalogue, the ad- 

 ditional varieties being indicated by an aster- 

 isk. Additional works on the subject, and 

 magazines and periodicals relating to it, have 

 also been carried out to date. 



A review from the Century Magazine, en- 

 titled " Old and New Roses," which appeared 

 the year following the publication of this 

 volume, and but a month previous to the au- 



