Excerpt from The Rose Manual
Custom has made it the privilege of authors to set forth the merit and purport of their productions in some preliminary remarks. Of this privilege I gladly avail myself, to disclaim at once all pretensions to the art of composition.
These pages owe their existence merely to the repeated demands of numerous friends and customers, for a work on Roses, simple in its arrangement, and clear in its directions. I have endeavoured to gratify their wishes, and have now only to hope that their satisfaction may bear some proportion to the pleasure I have found in the task.
This volume contains the result of twenty-eight years' experience on the subject of which it treats, twenty-three of which have been as a nurseryman cultivating the largest collection in the country.1 do not wish to be understood, however, as arrogating to myself any greater share of knowledge in rose culture than can be acquired by all practical men.
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