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publishes at the same time two editions of a book ; the one 

 in the first style large and handsome, the other small less 

 elegant but still good and useful. Now, by this plan it 

 is found the sale of the best edition is not sensibly 

 diminished, while the cheapness of the other creates a 

 demand among those who while admirers would not 

 otherwise become purchasers. Thus an extended sale is 

 secured, and producers and purchasers are mutually bene- 

 fited. In conclusion, I would ask the uninitiated to pause 

 and consider whether in the recent efforts to depreciate 

 New Roses there may not be an interest of old Roses 

 the old shopkeepers of commerce as well as of new? And 

 in the complex movements on this wondrous ball I would 

 say take heed lest in steering to avoid Charybdis you 

 strike against Scylla. 



[From " The Gardeners' Chronicle? February 2ist 1857,^. 119.] 



I ENTIRELY agree with Mr Rivers in his general views 

 as regards trade, which, if I rightly comprehend his 

 article of last week, amounts to this : We should con- 

 sider it our privilege as well as interest to protect from 

 fraud those who trust in us. Further let me assure him 

 that I entertain the same friendly feeling which he 

 displays. If, being comparatively a young man, I may 

 be allowed to go so far, I would also say with him, " I 

 have no fear, or envy, or jealousy," and if I cannot add, 

 " I have lived long enough to forget them," I believe I 

 may sincerely say, " I have ever been too busy and too 

 happy in my calling to find room for their existence or 

 conditions for their growth." The question of Old and 

 New Roses is now fairly before the public, and k had better 

 be ended than suffered to degenerate into "idle talk." 

 The most sceptical will doubtless have been satisfied by 

 the abundance of well-attested evidence that the most 

 questioned and maligned of my new favourites The 

 Gloire de Dijon is not only first-rate but suited to a 



