v i PREFACE 



lit usefully into a space as yet unfilled in garden 

 literature. 



In order that the book may be a complete Rose 

 manual, I have had the pleasure of working in 

 concert with Mr. Edward Mawley, who, in the 

 second part, gives the result of his long experience 

 as a practical rosarian. 



I have to offer grateful acknowledgment to Miss 

 Willmott for a considerable number of excellent 

 photographs, and for valuable help in compiling 

 the list of Rose species as garden plants ; to Mr. 

 W. Robinson for permission to reproduce some 

 Rose portraits from former coloured plates in The 

 Garden; to Mr. Edward Wooiall for the chapter 

 on Riviera Garden Roses ; to Mr. E. T. Cook for 

 frequent advice and assistance, and to the owners 

 of The Garden and Country Life for a number of 

 the illustrations. 



Lists of Roses for special purposes are given at 

 the end of some of the chapters where it appeared 

 that they would be most of use. At the end of the 

 book are also descriptive lists, and an alphabetical 

 list of the best Roses in all classes. A note of the 

 abbreviations used against the Rose names appears 

 at p. 149. It will be understood that the lists of 

 the Roses given are not complete lists of all the 

 Roses known, but careful and well-proved selections 

 of the best. 



G.J. 



