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      THE BOOK OF ROSES    
      By Francis Parkman    
      Boston 
 J. E. Tilton And Company.    
      1871.    

      TO 
 Edward Sprague Rand, Jr., 
 A Horticulturist 
 Whose      Energy And Skill 
 Have Made 
 "A Wilderness To Blossom As The      Rose," This Book 
 Is Cordially Inscribed.    




CONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION 
 CHAPTER I. OPEN AIR CULTURE 
 CHAPTER II. POT CULTURE 
 CHAPTER III. PROPAGATION 
 CHAPTER IV. MISCELLANEOUS OPERATIONS 
 CHAPTER V. GROUPS and FAMILIES 
 CHAPTER VI. SUMMER ROSES 
 CHAPTER VII. AUTUMNAL ROSES 
 ROSES MOST APPROVED BY THE BEST CULTIVATORS OF      THE PRESENT DAY 
 NEW ROSES OF 1866 




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      INTRODUCTION    
IT IS needless to      eulogize the Rose. Poets from Anacreon and Sappho, and earlier than they,      down to our own times, have sung its praises; and yet the rose of Grecian      and of Persian song, the rose of troubadours and minstrels, had no      beauties so resplendent as those with which its offspring of the present      day embellish our gardens. The "thirty sorts of rose," of which John      Parkinson speaks in 1629, have multiplied to thousands. New races have      been introduced from China, Persia, Hindostan, and our own country; and      these, amalgamated with the older families by the art of the hybridist,      have produced still other forms of surpassing variety and beauty. This      multiplication and improvement are still in progress. The last two or      three years have been prolific beyond precedent in new roses; and, with      all regard for old favorites, it cannot be denied, that, while a few of      the roses of our foref                        
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