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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. viii, 281 pp. ; metallic gold and mauve cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; dustjacket has some fading, nicks on edges ; Contents: What We Are And What We Can Do / George A. Sweetser John Horace Mcfarland, L.H.D. R. C. Allen, Robert Pyle, Louis M. Massey, Arthur F. Truex -- Living With Roses / Mrs. P. D. Fulwood -- Pros, Cons and Nature / A. B. Albera -- Malmaison: Birthplace Of Modern Roses / Josephine Craven Chandler -- Vernal, Utah, Shows The Way / Paul Dougherly -- The Roses In Colonial Virginia / Charles A. Dawson -- Outline For Rose Culture / Mrs. R. M. Allred -- Rose Interest In Florida / Nixon Smiley -- Rose Growing In South Carolina / C. R. Raysor -- Roses In Mississippi / Thomas B. Kennedy -- 'And The Desert Shall Bloom Like A Rose" / Mrs. George Doolittle -- Roses In Adobe / Mrs. A. B. Gowens -- Cultural Practices For The Central Southwest / Lem H. Tithe -- Roses In Cold Climes / A. L. Truax -- Poor Rose Plants / Mrs. Webster Wagner -- 2,4-D Injury On Roses / Dr. P. W. Zimmerman -- Fables and Fancies In Rose Growing / Professor A. H. MacAndrews -- Abnormalities-Variety Traits Or Disease / Dr. B. W. Lyle -- Insects and Insecticides / Dr. O. S. Hensill -- The Diagnosis and Treatment Of A Rosarian / Dr. E. C. Hamblen -- Soil Nitrate Levels and The Growth Of Roses / Dr. John O. Seeley -- My Garden (A Poem) / Mabel O. Hatton -- Ground Corncobs: A Labor Saver / Morgan D. Reinbold -- Horticultural Vermiculite In Rose Culture / Arthur E. Navlet -- Long And Short Pruning / Dixon Vallance -- Prepackaging Of Roses / Professor Alex Laurie -- Row To Make Cut Roses Last / Edwin F. Steffek -- May Is The Month Of Roses / Jessie Brice -- Nicholson Bowl Award -- Plant Hunters / Dr. Wilber Stout -- Alister Clark / Harry H. Hazlewood -- My Favorite Roses / Roy Shepherd -- Jesse A. Currey-A Great American Rosarian / Quimby L. Matthews -- The Advance Guard / Margaret Snyder -- A New Basis Of Variety Classification / Ralph Moore -- The Forgotten Roses / Oliver Linton Lilley -- A New Use For An Old Plant / Stanley A. Matzke -- Understocks For Roses / George M. Taylor -- The Rose Named Liberty / Dr. James A. Gamble -- New Varieties For The Extreme North / Percy H. Wright -- Mistakes In Growing Roses / George A. Sweetser -- On Pruning Roses / Alfred Stettler -- Cold Hardiness / Griffith J. Buck -- Modern Hardy Climbers In New England / Karl P. Jones -- Roses Are Flourishing In South Africa / John E. Crewe Brown -- Hybridizing: Fascinating Year-Round Hobby / Mrs. K. Melvin Covington -- Meaning In The Rose / Morgan T. Riley -- Bibliography Of The Language Of Flowers -- Proof Of The Pudding -- New Roses Of The World -- Index -- Illustrations -- Facing -- Jesse A. Currey, First Curator O The International Rose Test Garden -- Hedge Plantings Of Rosa Multiflora -- Main (In Color) -- Tallyho (In Color) -- A New Rose In The Making -- Golden Anniversary (In Color) -- Lavender Pinocchio (In Color) -- Rose Of Freedom (In Color) -- Holiday (In Color) -- California Centennial (In Color) -- Facing Page -- Dr. J. Horace Mcfarland, President Emeritus, American Rose -- Society -- Grace Moore (In Color) -- Gardens At Malmaison -- Valiant (In Color) -- Gay Gypsy (In Color) -- Effect Of 2,4-D On Plants -- Anna Marie (In Color) -- Forty-Niner (In Color) -- Applause (In Color) ; G/G. Book.

Condizione: Very good. - Octavo, 8-3/8 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Softcover pamphlet bound in self-wraps removed from a larger collection of bound pamphlets with paper remnants along the spine. There are stab marks along the left edge with a tiny piece out from the bottom inner corner of the cover page where is is starting to pull away. There is also a small hole near the bottom center of the cover page. 36 pages, including the cover page. Very good. Founded as The New England Universalist General Reform Association in 1846, the words "New England" were dropped from the name in 1847. The UGRA had an ambitious agenda seeking reform in many areas of society. Indeed, the UGRA's report by the Rev. E.G. Brooks, D.D. touches on many subjects including "Peace", "Capital Punishment", "The Colored Man", "Slavery", "Temperance", "Idiots", etc.The last 11 pages is a "Report on Tobacco" authored by the Committee consisting of John Greenleaf Adams, Paul H. Sweetser and J.N. Parker.RARE.