"In offering a new edition of this work, the preparation of which gave us pleasure more than twenty years ago, we have not only carefully revised the garden classification, but have stricken out much of the poetry, which, to the cultivator, may have seemed irrelevant, if not worthless. For the interest of the classical scholar, we have retained much of the early history of the Rose, and its connection with the manners and customs of the two great nations of a former age. "The amateur will, we think, find the labor of selection much diminished by the increased simplicity of the mode we have adopted, while the commercial gardener will in nowise be injured by the change. "In directions for culture, we give the results of our own experience, and have not hesitated to avail ourselves of any satisfactory results in the experience of others, which might enhance the utility of the work." CONTENTS: CHAPTER I.--BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION. CHAPTER II.--GARDEN CLASSIFICATION. CHAPTER III.--GENERAL CULTURE OF THE ROSE. CHAPTER IV.--SOIL, SITUATION, AND PLANTING. CHAPTER V.--PRUNING, TRAINING, AND BEDDING. CHAPTER VI.--POTTING AND FORCING. CHAPTER VII.--PROPAGATION. CHAPTER VIII.--MULTIPLICATION BY SEED AND HYBRIDIZING. CHAPTER IX.--DISEASES AND INSECTS ATTACKING THE ROSE. CHAPTER X.--EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROSE, AND FABLES RESPECTING ITS ORIGIN. CHAPTER XI.--LUXURIOUS USE OF THE ROSE. CHAPTER XII.--THE ROSE IN CEREMONIES AND FESTIVALS, AND IN THE ADORNMENT OF BURIAL-PLACES. CHAPTER XIII.--THE ROSE IN THE MIDDLE AGES. CHAPTER XIV.--PERFUMES OF THE ROSE. CHAPTER XV.--MEDICAL PROPERTIES OF THE ROSE. CHAPTER XVI.--GENERAL REMARKS. * * * * * BEAUTIFYING COUNTRY HOMES. _A Hand-Book of Landscape Gardening._ BY J. WEIDENMANN. A SPLENDID QUARTO VOLUME. Beautifully Illustrated with numerous fine food Engravings, and with 17 Full-Page and 7 Double-Page Colored Lithographs OF PLACES ALREADY IMPROVED. MAKE HOME BEAUTIFUL. NOTICES BY THE PRESS.