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QYTLOBNIV

R6

1843

INTURE DEPR

LONDON:

Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODE,
New-Street-Square.

PREFACE

TO THE

THIRD EDITION.

THE public having so highly favoured me as to call for a Third Edition of this little work, I have endeavoured to show my gratitude by giving the result of long experience in the propagation of this now very popular flower. I am induced to flatter myself that the directions given in the following pages for propagation and for the cultivation of roses in pots will be found both interesting and profitable to the amateur; in the former I trust those given will be found sufficiently plain : but I must observe that a practical cultivator here finds some difficulty; he, almost obstinately, supposes that every one must know something relative to those, with him, every-day operations; he is apt therefore not to go sufficiently into detail. I have, in writing on propagation, combatted this feeling; and humbly hope that what I have said will be found sufficiently explicit by an indulgent public.

Sawbridgeworth,
Nov. 8, 1843.

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PREFACE

TO THE

SECOND EDITION.

IN giving a Second Edition of this little work to the public, I have to again beg indulgence, for I fear that more than I have been able to perform will be expected. Still I am induced to hope that my hints and instructions for raising roses from seed, most certainly original, will meet with the approbation of rose amateurs. And when I adduce as a fact, that some very pretty hybrid China Roses were raised from seed in Yorkshire, from a blush tea-scented rose, trained up the rafters of an old greenhouse, and fertilised with various hardy roses, it will certainly encourage those who live further south to hope for success without the aid of glass.

The fear of being tedious, and the little knowledge I yet possess of the habits and flowers of many

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