Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. All that is really necessary for the amateur rose grower to know in order that he may intelligently make a rose garden, select his varieties and grow the harvest of bloom, is told in this volume. Many books on the rose are more bulky, but the additional matter is not of an essential character. In this volume everything not directly to the point of practical rose growing for the American amateur is omitted.