Roses and How to Grow Them

The present work is conscious of many deficiencies, the subject being not only large, but a very varied one. This family embraces upwards of eighty distinct species and thousand of varieties; besides this the subject presents additional difficulties from the great variations in temperature and rainfall. The book will save the amateur from the necessity of exercising his own judgment so as to adapt his garden operations not only to the climate but also the weather and the state of the soil. The book is useful to all classes of readers has been the object throughout the whole work, and every endeavour has been made to make it as simple as possible, presuming that it may fall into the hands of many about to commence the culture of the “Queen of Flowers.”