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Book The Old Rose Advisor

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brent C. Dickerson
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 0595172938
  • Pages : 686 pages

Download or read book The Old Rose Advisor written by Brent C. Dickerson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the improved, enlarged Second Edition of the breakthrough classic work on reblooming old roses, known internationally in its First Edition for its fresh research and accuracy. It provides the most complete listing of all of the existing or otherwise important or interesting varieties of those opulent reblooming old roses, with chapters on Bourbons, Hybrid Perpetuals, Damask Perpetuals, Chinas, and Teas. The author has obtained the most complete and varied collection of descriptions ever, often providing the original descriptions by the actual breeder! This Second Edition has been augmented with many more listings and many more descriptions, and has been re-formatted to increase the ease of use by the reader. This improved edition of a modern classic will be a welcome addition to the reference collection of any lover of roses, horticulture, or horticultural history!

Book The Old Rose Advisor  Volume II

Download or read book The Old Rose Advisor Volume II written by Brent C. Dickerson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-03-06 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume II of the improved, enlarged Second Edition of the breakthrough classic work on reblooming old roses, known internationally in its First Edition for its fresh research and accuracy. It provides the most complete listing anywhere of all of the existing or otherwise important or interesting varieties of those opulent reblooming old roses, with chapters in this volume on Noisettes and Climbers, Polyanthas, and Hybrid Teas, with ten detailed and useful Appendices, including updates on the author's other books. The author has obtained the most complete and varied descriptions ever, often providing the original descriptions by the actual breeder! This Second Edition has been augmented with many more listings and many more descriptions, and has been re-formatted to increase the ease of use by the reader. This improved edition of a modern classic will be a welcome addition to the reference collection of any lover of roses, horticulture, or horticultural history!

Book The Old Rose Advisor  Volume I

Download or read book The Old Rose Advisor Volume I written by Brent C. Dickerson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-03-06 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the improved, enlarged Second Edition of the breakthrough classic work on reblooming old roses, known internationally in its First Edition for its fresh research and accuracy. It provides the most complete listing of all of the existing or otherwise important or interesting varieties of those opulent reblooming old roses, with chapters on Bourbons, Hybrid Perpetuals, Damask Perpetuals, Chinas, and Teas. The author has obtained the most complete and varied collection of descriptions ever, often providing the original descriptions by the actual breeder! This Second Edition has been augmented with many more listings and many more descriptions, and has been re-formatted to increase the ease of use by the reader. This improved edition of a modern classic will be a welcome addition to the reference collection of any lover of roses, horticulture, or horticultural history!

Book The Old Rose Index

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brent C. Dickerson
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 0595202276
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book The Old Rose Index written by Brent C. Dickerson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed book is the useful long-awaited and efficient comprehensive index to Brent C. Dickerson's fascinating works on Old Roses. The index lists all of the roses in these internationally-known, influential works, and specifies to the reader which page in which of these books has the main or important entry on the rose in question; also indexed here are all substantive references to people, places, things, or concepts in these important works which arose from Dickerson's twenty years of careful research and close study. "The Old Rose Index" additionally includes complete and updated appendices listing roses by year and by color, several interesting articles, as well as updates to Dickerson's previous books—plus completly new entries on 29 interesting old roses not covered previously! While not for those who do not own Dickerson's other books, "The Old Rose Index" will give the reader who does own these monumental works complete mastery over the great treasury of information supplied by "The Old Rose Advisor" (second edition), "The Old Rose Adventurer", and "The Old Rose Informant", saving time and streamlining research in one's quest for information. This remarkable book is the key that unlocks that treasury!

Book The Old Rose Index

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brent C. Dickerson
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2001-10-11
  • ISBN : 1469716402
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book The Old Rose Index written by Brent C. Dickerson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-10-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed book is the useful long-awaited and efficient comprehensive index to Brent C. Dickerson's fascinating works on Old Roses. The index lists all of the roses in these internationally-known, influential works, and specifies to the reader which page in which of these books has the main or important entry on the rose in question; also indexed here are all substantive references to people, places, things, or concepts in these important works which arose from Dickerson's twenty years of careful research and close study. "The Old Rose Index" additionally includes complete and updated appendices listing roses by year and by color, several interesting articles, as well as updates to Dickerson's previous booksplus completly new entries on 29 interesting old roses not covered previously! While not for those who do not own Dickerson's other books, "The Old Rose Index" will give the reader who does own these monumental works complete mastery over the great treasury of information supplied by "The Old Rose Advisor" (second edition), "The Old Rose Adventurer", and "The Old Rose Informant", saving time and streamlining research in one's quest for information. This remarkable book is the key that unlocks that treasury!

Book The Old Rose Informant

Download or read book The Old Rose Informant written by Brent Dickerson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12-28 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unique and important compendium of some of the rare literature in Rose History, including the first-ever full English translation of the major written works of Jean-Pierre Vibert, pieces by him on culture, hybridization, nomenclature, exhibiting, and unsavory practices, as well as cutting-edge chapters by author and translator Brent C. Dickerson on the previously unknown first phase of many of the most significant rose classes, including Hybrid Teas, Bourbons, Damask Perpetuals, Chinas, Hybrid Perpetuals, Hybrid Chinas, and much much more! The reader will join in the probings and controversies as Rose Progress struggles with a proud heart and high hopes through the rich days when Old Roses were king. Dickerson's previous works *The Old Rose Advisor* and *The Old Rose Adventurer* revolutionized the study of Old Roses; this book,*The Old Rose Informant*, completes the trilogy and provides the capstone to his acclaimed and long-continued work. As is the case with few books in the field, the publication of *The Old Rose Informant*, with its humor, its new data, its many chapters of otherwise unavailable material, and its spirited and insightful looks at Rose Progress, is an important event in Gardening Literature. Also published by iuniverse is the author's useful and necessary research aid *Roll-Call: The Old Rose Breeder*.

Book The Old Rose Adventurer

Download or read book The Old Rose Adventurer written by Brent C. Dickerson and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 1999 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The once-blooming old European roses, and more.

Book Shrub Roses

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marilyn Raff
  • Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781555663810
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Shrub Roses written by Marilyn Raff and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shrub Roses"-- Marilyn Raff introduces low maintenance roses for any garden situation, any lifestyle, and any climate to both the novice and expert gardener.

Book Rose

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine Horwood
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2018-11-15
  • ISBN : 1789140382
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Rose written by Catherine Horwood and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could a book by any other name smell as sweet? Absolutely not. The rose is the world’s favorite flower—and always has been. It is our greatest floral symbol of love and romance, and it is a bloom that touches our hearts as the flower most often chosen to celebrate significant milestones—weddings, anniversaries, births, and indeed, deaths. In this book, Catherine Horwood traces the botanical, religious, literary, and artistic journeys of the rose across the centuries, from battles to bridal bouquets. From Cleopatra’s rose petal–filled bed to Nijinsky’s Spectre de la Rose, from the highly prized Attar of Rose oil so beloved by the ancient Persians to the rosy scents of top perfume labels today, from Shakespearean myths about the War of the Roses to the significance of roses in Queen Elizabeth I’s embroidered dresses, and even to blockade-running during the Napoleonic Wars to satisfy Empress Josephine’s passion for collecting her favorite flower, Rose blossoms with the many stories of our ardor for this botanical family. Featuring a bower of illustrations and drawing on an array of sources as rich and many-hued as roses themselves, Horwood’s tale opens our eyes and noses to the world’s major rose-growing nations. With operatic tales of medieval bestsellers, nurserymen’s rivalries, and changing tastes in our personal flower beds, Rose is certain to woo both gardeners and non-gardeners alike.

Book A Rose by Any Name

    Book Details:
  • Author : Douglas Brenner
  • Publisher : Algonquin Books
  • Release : 2009-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781565125186
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book A Rose by Any Name written by Douglas Brenner and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasury of eclectic information about different varieties of roses looks at the stories behind their colorful names, probing elements of folklore, poetry, art, literature, science, myth, and other sources to reveal the history of naming and cultivating roses, from ancient times to the present day.

Book Chasing the Rose

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrea Di Robilant
  • Publisher : Knopf
  • Release : 2014-05-06
  • ISBN : 0307962938
  • Pages : 227 pages

Download or read book Chasing the Rose written by Andrea Di Robilant and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair, here is the charming chronicle of his search for the identity of a mysterious old rose. Andrea di Robilant’s tale takes us back to the time of Josephine Bonaparte, as well as into some of the most delightful rose gardens in Italy today, brought to colorful life on the page in the watercolors of artist Nina Fuga. In his 2008 biography of the Venetian lady Lucia Mocenigo (his great-great-great-great- grandmother), di Robilant described a pink rose that grows wild on the family’s former country estate, mentioning its light peach-and-raspberry scent. This passing detail led to an invitation for an audience with a local rose doyenne, Eleonora Garlant. She and other experts wondered if di Robilant’s unnamed rose could possibly be one of the long-lost China varieties that nineteenth-century European growers had cultivated but which have since disappeared. On the hunt for the identity of his anonymous yet quietly distinctive rose, Di Robilant finds himself captivated by roseophiles through time––from Lucia and her friend Josephine Bonaparte to the gifted Eleonora, whose garden of nearly fifteen hundred varieties of old roses is one of the most significant in Europe––and by the roses themselves, each of which has a tale to tell. What starts out as a lighthearted quest becomes a meaningful journey as di Robilant contemplates the enduring beauty of what is passed down to us in a rose, through both the generosity of nature and the cultivating hand of human beings, who for centuries have embraced and extended the life of this mysterious flower.

Book The Old Rose Informant

Download or read book The Old Rose Informant written by Brent Dickerson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unique and important compendium of some of the rare literature in Rose History, including the first-ever full English translation of the major written works of Jean-Pierre Vibert, pieces by him on culture, hybridization, nomenclature, exhibiting, and unsavory practices, as well as cutting-edge chapters by author and translator Brent C. Dickerson on the previously unknown first phase of many of the most significant rose classes, including Hybrid Teas, Bourbons, Damask Perpetuals, Chinas, Hybrid Perpetuals, Hybrid Chinas, and much much more! The reader will join in the probings and controversies as Rose Progress struggles with a proud heart and high hopes through the rich days when Old Roses were king. Dickerson's previous works *The Old Rose Advisor* and *The Old Rose Adventurer* revolutionized the study of Old Roses; this book,*The Old Rose Informant*, completes the trilogy and provides the capstone to his acclaimed and long-continued work. As is the case with few books in the field, the publication of *The Old Rose Informant*, with its humor, its new data, its many chapters of otherwise unavailable material, and its spirited and insightful looks at Rose Progress, is an important event in Gardening Literature. Also published by iuniverse is the author's useful and necessary research aid *Roll-Call: The Old Rose Breeder*.

Book Otherwise Normal People

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aurelia C. Scott
  • Publisher : Algonquin Books
  • Release : 2007-01-01
  • ISBN : 1565124642
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book Otherwise Normal People written by Aurelia C. Scott and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful, firsthand journey inside the world of competitive rose gardening documents the cutthroat gardeners representing a broad cross-section of American rose lovers who will do anything to obsessively cultivate the perfect bloom.

Book A Cultural History of Plants in the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book A Cultural History of Plants in the Nineteenth Century written by David Mabberley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cultural History of Plants in the Nineteenth Century covers the period from 1800 to 1920, a time of astonishing growth in industrialization, urbanization, migration, population growth, colonial possessions, and developments in scientific knowledge. As European modes of civilization and cultivation were exported worldwide, botanical study was revolutionized – through the work of Charles Darwin and many others – and the new science of biology was born, based on cells, nuclei and molecules. As Darwinism took hold, plants came to be seen as a way of thinking about the connectivity of nature and life itself. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Plants presents the first comprehensive history of the uses and meanings of plants from prehistory to today. The themes covered in each volume are plants as staple foods; plants as luxury foods; trade and exploration; plant technology and science; plants and medicine; plants in culture; plants as natural ornaments; the representation of plants. David Mabberley is Emeritus Fellow at Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK; Emeritus Professor at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands; and Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University, Australia. Volume 5 in the Cultural History of Plants set. General Editors: Annette Giesecke, University of Delaware, USA, and David Mabberley, University of Oxford, UK.

Book Botanica s Roses

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Austin
  • Publisher : Welcome Rain Publishers
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 712 pages

Download or read book Botanica s Roses written by David Austin and published by Welcome Rain Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Botanica's RosesR will prove to be one of the greatest rose books of all time.

Book Roll call

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brent C. Dickerson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 612 pages

Download or read book Roll call written by Brent C. Dickerson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Selecting Hardy Roses for Northern Climates

Download or read book Selecting Hardy Roses for Northern Climates written by Vera A. Krischik and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: