CATALOGUE OF VARIETIES, 



DESCEIBING ALL SORTS NOW IIT GENERAL 

 CULTIVATION. 



A REGISTER of this nature cannot attain abso- 

 lute perfection, but I bave been at great pains to 

 make it complete and accurate. As regards tbe 

 age of tbe different varieties and by wbom sent 

 out, 1 have obtained mj information from tbe 

 raisers themselves, their catalogues, from various 

 horticultural magazines and books, mostly 

 French, and from a few amateurs, who have in- 

 terested themselves in the subject. Among these 

 are Mons. Jean Sisley, whose monograph of the 

 roses raised at Lyons lias been of valuable ser- 

 vice. I believe this will be found much the 

 most reliable list of the kind, but from seeing so 

 many inaccuracies in others of similar character 

 I know there must be some errors in this. Any 

 of my readers who may discover mistakes or mis- 

 statements of facts will greatly oblige by com- 

 municating Avith me, giving the autliority which 

 they have. In the descriptions, the more popu- 



