THE ROSE, 



CHAPTER I. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



No two books, treating of the rose, exactly 

 agree as to the different groups under which roses 

 should be classed, and those who expect some 

 slight variance in this work from what has pre- 

 ceded it, in other compilations, will not be wrong 

 in their conjectures. 



There has been such an infinitude of crosses 

 made between dijfferent groups, by means natu- 

 ral and artificial, that it would be rather remark- 

 able to find two writers who would assign the 

 same varieties throughout, to the same classes. 

 So it is that, by the various conjectures and opin- 

 ions of the different authors, much confusion 

 and perplexity has been engendered. Some, in 

 order that the character of a variety may be 



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