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placed over them, lifting it off in mild favourable weather. 

 This plant being known as delicate has probably deterred 

 many from attempting to cultivate it ; but the same may 

 be said of many of the choicest and most interesting pro- 

 ductions of Flora they are delicate, yet by a right system 

 of treatment are they not often made to repay a hundred- 

 fold the additional care of the painstaking cultivator? 

 That this plant is not unmanageable may be gathered from 

 the fact advertised a month ago that there were nearly 400 

 plants here in perfect health. 



THE HISTORY AND CULTIVATION OF 

 THE ROSE. 



[Lecture before the Stamford Hill, Clapton, and Stoke- Neivington 

 Gardeners' Association, Dec. 8M, 1845.] 



THE subject on which I am invited to speak this 

 evening is, The History and Cultivation of the Rose. 

 I need scarcely say that it would occupy a great length 

 of time to enter into all the details of the subject ; and, 

 indeed, when we consider the form in which it is brought 

 forward this evening it would hardly seem necessary to 

 do so. It has appeared to me the preferable plan to 

 compress in as small a compass as possible that which 

 is most interesting and practically useful. In pursuing 

 this course I trust the most important facts both historical 

 and horticultural will be found recorded, though some 

 must necessarily be spoken of rather briefly. For 

 convenience sake I shall divide the subject into four 

 heads : Bringing first before your notice the History of 

 the Rose ; I shall then proceed to make a few remarks on 

 the formation of the Rosetum, and the arrangement of 

 Roses generally ; in the third place I shall treat of the 



