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Classic Roses
Peter Beales - 'Classic Roses' ISBN 1 86046 303 7. OK, it's not a new book but I
didn't buy it first time around and regretted it. It is now being sold by http://www.psbooks.co.uk/ at £12.99 (cover price £25.00) It's a must for anybody who wants more than the 'Rose Expert'. Because it's Peter Beales writing, Old Roses and shrub roses get a fuller treatment than modern varieties but they are in there in plenty for most people. This is probably the most accessible of the 'big Rose Books': no formal botanical language but he isn't talking down to the reader and the photos are good enough to use in identification. About 48 pages on history and origins of garden roses, a similar size section on their use in the garden, about 450 pages of Dictionary with brief descriptions of cultivars and species, their habits, disease tolerance etc. Top that with brief but lucid accounts of cultivation, propagation (including commercial nursery practice) and a good bibilography. What more can I say? Mankind has been growing, breeding and writing about roses for at least 5000 years. Peter Beales has distilled all of that and his lifetime experience of growing and studying roses into a beautiful and readable book that anybody can buy for £12.99. BTW I like it:-) And I don't have shares in Postscript or Peter Beales' nursery. --- Rod http://website.lineone.net/%7Erodcraddock/index.html My email address needs weeding. |
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