PREFACE 



I AM thankful to know, in my old age, that I have 

 been privileged to promote that love of a garden 

 which never fails to make our lives more happy ; 

 and I have earnestly endeavoured to attest my 

 gratitude by such amendments and additions to 

 my little Book on the Rose as will, I hope, increase 

 its persuasive and instructive influence. 



The most important of these additions — being a 

 help of transcendent value to the amateur — is A 

 List of the best Exhibition and Garden Roses, com- 

 piled by the most accomplished Rosarians of our 

 day, and included in this volume by the kind per- 

 mission of the National Rose Society. The names 

 of Roses, which have been proved to be worthy 

 of insertion in this catalogue, since its publication 



