PREFACE TO THE TENTH EDITION. 



T T is fifty-five years since the first edition of the " ROSE GARDEN" was 

 published, and since that date many works on the subject have 

 appeared in the English, French, and German languages. 



Notwithstanding this fact, the yearly sale of the " ROSE GARDEN" 

 has steadily increased. Gratified by this recognition, the Author feels 

 prompted to further efforts in order to bring the information on the 

 history and cultivation of the ROSE to the level of the times, and 

 by adding to the illustrations he hopes to render the work still more 

 acceptable to the public. 



The present edition of the " ROSE GARDEN " has been most carefully 

 and thoughtfully revised, and in part re-written. The articles in the 

 Appendix on the Botany and Entomology of the Rose have also been 

 revised. There is, indeed, the greatest change in the descriptive part 

 of the work. Many of the varieties described, and even recommended 

 at the time the First Edition was published, are now withdrawn, 

 because surpassed in excellence by more modern varieties. 



The original edition of the " ROSE GARDEN " has been translated into 

 Danish,"|" an( ^ the Author's consent has been asked and granted for the 

 publication of editions in German and French also ; but as he has never 

 met with the work in either of the latter languages he does not know if 

 the translators' intentions have been carried out. 



PAULS' ROYAL NURSERIES, WALTHAM CROSS, 

 May 1903. 



t " Rosengartneren," &c. En Oversaltelse af Pauls " Rosegarden " afpasset efter danske Forholde ved Bentzien 



og Skjoldager, Kjobenhavn, 1855. 



