SIR OR MADAME, 
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J E have great pleasure in handing you our NEW ROSE CATALOGUE, and 
at the same time wish to express our gratitude for the kind way in which 
customers have supported us in the past, and for their many expressions of 
satisfaction at the way their orders have been carried out. 
The Hints on Cultivation (see pages 7 and 8) will be found sufficiently complete for 
all practical purposes and for successful cultivation. Any amateur requiring more 
detailed information with a view to exhibiting will do we,11 to refer to page 83, and select 
the publications there offered. We, however, have been careful throughout the catalogue 
to make suggestions as to the best treatment for any individual varieties which differ 
in some way from the general run of the sorts in the class to which they belong ; and the 
illustrations we trust will prove of interest to intending purchasers. 
It is often remarked by growers in the North that Roses from the South are too 
delicate for their climate ; this we have proved to be a great fallacy so far as the East 
Coast is concerned ; our grounds, standing very high, are much exposed, consequently 
the plants get well hardened and ripened early in the season, and are in excellent condition 
to move in November. Those grown in the North continue to produce flowers and foliage 
almost until the winter is upon them, and when moved at that time are much more 
susceptible to frost than the hard well-ripened plants from the East Coast. 
As our stock of Roses this year is very large and exceptionally fine, with large heads, 
and plenty of fibrous roots, we are confident of being able to supply [first-class plants 
throughout the season, but where convenient we should like intended orders to be sent 
as soon as possible, they will be booked and executed in rotation as received immediately 
the plants are in condition to move. We therefore trust we may have your kind orders 
as soon after receiving this Catalogue as possible, and promising our best attention to 
your wishes. 
We are, your obedient Servants, 
BENJAMIN R. CANT and SONS. 
