PARSONS ON THE ROSE, 



A TREATISE ON THE 



Propagation, Culture, and History of the Rose. 



By SAMUEL B. PARSONS. 

 NEW AND REVISED EDITION, 



ILLUSTRATED. 



THE Rose is the oniy flower that can he said to have a history. It is pop- 

 alar now, and was so centuries ago. In his work upon the Rose, Mr. Parsons 

 has gathered up the curious legends concerning the flower, and gives us an 

 Idea of the esteem in which it was hold in former times. A simple garden 

 classification has been adopted, and the leading varieties under each class 

 enumerated and briefly described. The chapters on multiplication, cultiva- 

 tion, and training, are very full, and the work is altogether the most complete 

 of any before the public. 



The following is from the author's Preface : 



41 In offering a new edition of this work, tho preparation of whicn gave 

 as pleasure more than twenty years ago, we have not only carefully revised 

 the garden classification, but have stricken out much of the poetry, which, to 

 the cultivator, may have seemed irrelevant, if not worthless. For the interest 

 of the classical scholar, we have retained much of the early history of the 

 Rose, and its connection with the manners and customs of the two great 

 nations of a former age. 



" The amateur will, we think, find the labor of selection much diminished 

 by the increased simplicity of the mode we have adopted, while the commer- 

 cial gardener will in nowise be injured by the change. 



" In directions for culture, we give the results of our own experience, and 

 have not hesitated to avail ourselves of any satisfactory results in the expert 

 Bnce of others, which might enhance the utility of the work." 



CONTENTS' 



CHAPTER I. Botanical Classification. 



CHAPTER II. Garden Classification. 



CHAPTER III. General Culture of the Rose. 



CHAPTER IV. Soil, Situa^n, and Planting. 



CHAPTER V. Pruning, Training, and Bedding. 



CHAPTER VI. Potting and Forcing. 



CHAPTER VII. Propagation. 



CHAPTER VIII. Multiplication by Seed and Hybridizing. 



CHAPTER IX. Diseases and Insects Attacking the Rose. 



CHAPTER X. Early History of the Rose, and Fables Respecting its Origin. 



CHAPTER XI. Luxurious Use of the Rose. 



CHAPTER XII. The Rose in Ceremonies and Festivals, and in the Adorn 



ment of Burial-placos. 



CHAPTER 2T III. The Rose in the Middle Ages. 

 CHAPTER XIV. Perfumes of the Rose. 

 CHAPTER XV.~Medical Properties of the Rose. 

 ~>IAFTKR XVI. General Remarks. 



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