PREFACE. 
T 
HE following improvements have been intro- 
duced into the present edition of the Society's 
Official Catalogue. The Table of Contents has been 
made clearer, and is followed by a list of the names 
of all the Roses in the Catalogue arranged on an 
k. entirely new plan, so that any variety, the exact 
name of which may not be known to any one 
consulting it, may be more easily and quickly found. 
For the same reason, in the "List of Roses arranged 
according to their Classes," these classes have been 
placed in alphabetical order. But the most im- 
portant change has been in consulting over fifty well- 
known Rosarians outside the Committee and residing 
in different parts of the country as to the improvement 
of the Catalogue. The suggestions of these advisers 
have been carefully considered, and in many cases 
alterations have been made in accordance with 
them. 
