ROSES:
Reading edition
OR A M O N O G R A P H OF T H E G E N U S R O S A: CONTAINING COLOURED FIGURES OF ALL THE KNOWN SPECIES AND BEAUTIFUL VARIETIES DRAWN, ENGRAVED, DESCRIBED, AND COLOURED, from the Living Plants.
By H. C. A N D R E W S, AUTHOR OF THE BOTANIST’S REPOSITORY, COLOURED ENGRAVINGS OF HEATHS, ETC.
Hail, lovely Rose, of flowers the blushing queen! Burst, burst, ye numerous Nondescripts, with spleen! Ye wondrous Nothings, from a foreign soil Brought with such labour, care, and anxious toil,— Say, can your utmost charms, combined, disclose Beauty and fragrance equal to the Rose?
London: printed by R. TAYLOR and Co., 38, shoe lane; AND PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, 5, KNIGHTSBRIDGE.