Roses: or, a Monograph of the Genus Rosa

Roses: or, a Monograph of the Genus Rosa

THE Rose, for matchless beauty famed, (although by botanists so disregarded) has been the Painters study and the Poets theme, for ages past, and will no doubt for ages yet to come; long after many a curious Nondescript shall in a dusty hortus siccus sleep, unnoticed and unknown. The intention of the author in the delineation of this unrivalled tribe, is to arrange as accurately as possible the numerous beautiful varieties, with their speciesan arduous task, considering the neglect they have experienced, and the wild and indiscriminate manner in which they have been profusely mixed. This, aided by an heterogeneous mode of culture, has produced many varieties, the lineal descent of which is very difficult to ascertain. The extent of the genus has been most vaguely estimated; by some enumerated at two hundred and forty; an estimate that must certainly include many very slight varieties, which, if allowed, might swell the genus to ten times its real extent. But we think a rational computation would confine them within a hundred, including every distinct variety. The authors intention is to figure only those to which a separate character can be affixed, regarding a superfluous repetition, even of beauty, inadmissible. As the merits of the present undertaking may easily be appreciated by a free access to all its beautiful originals, the author hopes a candid allowance will be made, upon a comparison with the living plant, when it is considered that the most elaborate efforts {3}of art have never yet been able to do justice to its superior beauty. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 66266
Author: Andrews, Henry Cranke
Release Date: Sep 11, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English