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Excerpt from The Rose Book: A Complete Guide for Amateur Rose Growers Mr. H. H. Aitken, m.a has written the chapter on Rose Diseases and Insect Pests; to him also my acknow ledgments are due. With few exceptions, the half-tone illustrations are from my own photographs. Many of them are of roses grown in a small garden, within a dozen miles of Bow Bells, and given quite ordinary cultivation. They depict such blooms as every reader may hope to grow (indeed, he may easily excel them), and do not profess to show rose blooms as they are displayed in the exhibition tent. 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.