the choicest and the sweetest, bidding adieu to many old varieties, on account of their being surpassed by some that are new, but retaining those old roses not to be surpassed, i. e. those that are absolutely perfect in their form and colouring, which will all be found in their places; for it would indeed be unjust to neglect a good old friend with sterling qualities. In cultivation much improvement has taken place; and rapid progress has been made in the culture of roses in pots: under this head I have given fully the results of my experience. In the articles on propagation, the fruits of more than thirty pleasant years' unceasing attention are given with candour. I have nothing withheld, nor, I trust, aught forgotten. A practical cultivator, in writing on cultivation, labours under a disadvantage; he almost obstinately supposes that every one must know something relative to these, with him, every-day operations: he is apt, therefore, not to go sufficiently into detail. I have strenuously combated this feeling, and humbly trust that what I have written on that subject will be found sufficiently explicit by an indulgent public. Sawbridgeworth, Herts, |