Jaune Dcspr.ez. 
Rosa Gallica. 
THE CULTIVATION AND MANAGEMENT OE ROSES, 
We are indebted for the following treatise 
to one of the most experienced and successful 
cultivators in Europe, — a gentleman, whose 
knowledge of the flower and its capabilities is 
founded on extensive practice and unbounded 
zeal in the pursuit of his favourite object, who 
has not only conducted a long series of ex- 
periments, under all the varied circumstances 
to which the Gardener is subject, but who has 
read, and studied, and followed, to a certain 
extent, until convinced of their propriety, or 
error, every author who has written upon 
this queen of flowers, the Rose. Besides this, 
with the advantages of visiting, for many 
years, all the leading Rose gardens in the 
kingdom, and on the continent, and profiting 
by the practice of the owners, he has been 
enabled to cultivate, with almost unlimited 
success, nearly all the known varieties of the 
flower, and to raise seedlings which bid fair 
to rival many of the finest of the species yet 
in this kingdom. 
"When it is considered, that almost every 
body of note, engaged in the propagation and 
sale of the Rose, has, more or less, written 
upon the subject of its culture, and that 
amateurs of some experience have added their 
share to the Rose literature of the age, it 
cannot be anticipated that much can be offered 
that has not, in some form or other, been given 
to the public. Paul, Rivers, Lane, Glenny, 
and others known to excel in their vocation, 
have given much information, founded on prac- 
tice. Each of these have had their own way 
of doing things, and have favoured us in their 
turns with elaborate directions. As, however, 
they do not all recommend alike an unerring 
system, it is not too much to say that one who 
has severally practised after each, and sub- 
mitted a certain number of subjects to all the 
various modes of treatment, is able to select 
the best points from all of them; and that, by 
adding something from the systems he has 
seen prevailing in different nurseries upon the 
continent, he can give much useful information 
that can be found in no other existing work. 
The treatise, therefore, now submitted, is, in 
fact, a straightforward account of the best mode 
of doing every thing connected with Rose cul- 
ture. That some points may be recognised as 
being similar to one, and other directions may 
be known as the ideas of another, is not 
questioned. It comes, as a matter of course, 
from one who has tried every thing, be it 
recommended by whom it may; adopted those 
plans which have succeeded best, and rejected 
all that proved less efficacious, or mere specu- 
lation, that without offering anything new, he 
might, nevertheless, give all that is valuable. 
But, in this treatise, the public will not only 
have the advantage of the certainty without 
the uncertainty,, the good without the evil, 
the practicable without the impracticable, but 
they will also have much thai is purely the 
result of practice and experiment, and per- 
fectly new. 
We offer it, therefore, as the best treatise 
extant j the most perfect system of Rose culti- 
vation yet made known. From the saving 
of the seeds, to the perfecting of the tree, 
there is nothing left in doubt, nothing based 
on theory, nothing given from hearsay; and 
whatever may be done hereafter, we are quite 
prepared to substantiate, that for those who 
