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Title: Roses and Rose Growing

Author: Rose Georgina Kingsley

Release Date: August 18, 2010 [EBook #33464]

Language: English

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ROSES AND ROSE GROWING

[Illustration: SINGLE HYBRID TEA.

IRISH ELEGANCE.]

ROSES AND ROSE GROWING

BY ROSE G. KINGSLEY

OFFICIER DE L'INSTRUCTION PUBLIQUE

AUTHOR OF "EVERSLEY GARDENS," ETC., ETC.

WITH A CHAPTER ON "HOW TO GROW ROSES FOR
EXHIBITION," BY THE REV. F. PAGE-ROBERTS,
VICE-PRESIDENT NATIONAL ROSE
SOCIETY, F.R.H.S.

_WITH TWENTY-EIGHT FULL-PAGE COLOURED, AND NINE
HALF-TONE, ILLUSTRATIONS AND DIAGRAMS_

WHITTAKER & CO.
2 WHITE HART STREET, PATERNOSTER SQUARE, LONDON, E.C.
AND 64-66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK

RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED,
BREAD STREET HILL, E.C., AND
BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.

PREFACE

SOME time ago it was suggested, by certain rose-lovers and enthusiasts,
that the practical experience of an amateur, brought up from childhood
to love and cultivate roses, might be of use to other owners of small
gardens, who, like herself, tend their roses themselves. And in the hope
that this might be the case, I undertook to write this little book. My
text-book in this labour of love has been an old copy, which belonged to
my father when he settled at Eversley in 1844, of _The Rose Amateur's
Guide_, by that veteran rose-grower, the late Thomas Rivers. I am also
greatly indebted to the Rev. J. H. Pemberton's learned and admirable
work, _Roses, their History, Development, and Cultivation_, published
early this year; and to the various publications of the National Rose
Society.

As one branch, however, of the cultivation of roses is a sealed book to
me, for I a