Excerpt from Market Nursery Work, Vol. 3: A Series of Six Books, on the Cultivation, of Crops for Market There is a glamour about the rose which, even to the oldest rosarian, makes a strong appeal, and might perhaps tell against that purely commercial Spirit in which we desire to deal with our subject. Seeing, however, that it is now some twenty years since we used to gird up our loins and join in the fray at the Crystal Palace and elsewhere, mementoes of which we still value, we are able to detach ourselves entirely from the sentimental and concentrate on the practical. Still, the old love for the rose burns in us as strong as ever, and this is all to the good, for it makes our present task a labour of love, and will enable us to transfuse some of the rose Spirit into these pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.