In article , J. Del Col
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In article , J. Del Col
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Ok rosomanes, here's THE book on current scientific research on roses,
and it's only a piffling $512 dollars. But you get three volumes of
exciting stuff like "Galls Induced by Cynpid Wasps," and "Postharvest
Physiology: Effects of Ethylene and Inhibition of Ethylene Action."

Seriously, it does have articles on things like rose cultivation
history, rose diseases, nutrition and pests.

If you want the $512 price, you'd better hurry. Three months after
publication the price goes up to $640.

Is this a tome primarily for greenhouse rose growers?

And is this a Brittish publication edited by the Cornell professor who
edited the Compendium of Rose Diseases? Some initial Kenneth Horst or
something like that?


No. The editors of this set are Andrew Roberts, Thomas Debener
and Serge Gudin.

The publisher is Elsevier Academic Press.

I wold guess it is aimed at academic rose researchers. Only a major
academic library could afford it! Our librarian here sent me the
promo literature just for laughs.

At that cost, you'd think they had at least a secondary market in line,
like the professional greenhouse rose growers. Google picks up
interesting articles sometimes on studies done on the most arcane,
minute subjects, the kind of thing only a corporation with some dough
would finance if it had money at stake. I usually can't read them
because they are a professional association. Their security isn't
great, so sometimes a get a peek.