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for so many years from the pen of its talented secretary, Mr. Vi viand 

 Morel, who, on more than one occasion, has sent us across the 

 Channel to be read the results of his labours at Rose meetings held in 

 this country. If this gentleman could be persuaded to collect into 

 one volume his numerous essays on the subject the botanical and 

 horticultural literature of the Rose would be very substantially 

 enriched. In Germany the Rosen Zeilung, established in 1886 as 

 the organ of the German Rose Society, continues to express and 

 encourage the development in all that pertains to the Rose that is 

 taking place in that country. 



In concluding these remarks I feel conscious of the imperfect 

 manner in which I have touched on the fringe only of a large subject ; 

 in exploring it fully volumes might be written. I think the literature 

 of the Rose may be compared to a large and exceedingly vigorous bush 

 of the plant itself, the various ramifications of the subject corre- 

 sponding to the branches of the plant, and the individual works and 

 treatises to the flowers themselves. We know that one flower 

 differeth from another in glory, but in the case of the Rose very few 

 are the blossoms that fail to present a charm of some kind to the 

 passer-by who stops to examine them, or to afford a supply of nectar 

 to those who know how to extract it. 



