num_pages: 512
description: Updated, expanded and illustrated with more than 600 new full-colour photographs, "Classic Roses" is the authoritative history and essential manual for all serious gardeners and rose lovers. It identifies and describes all the species, cultivars and varieties that have stood the test of time, including the ancient Chinese teas, the York and Lancaster roses, the Provence and Bourbons and the humble and hardy rugosas. This definitive work is a grower's guide to the buying, propagation, feeding and pruning of old roses and important hybrids, shrub roses and climbers. There are new and improved height and colour charts (which make the selection of roses for specific locations easier), as well as up-to-date information on breeding new cultivars, classification and nomenclature, sources of supply, rose societies and outstanding gardens, country by country. Special contributions from United States rose experts include: William Grant on the phenomenon of rose-rustling (finding and conserving old roses) in California, Texas and elsewhere, Malcolm M. Manners on mosaic virus, and Malcolm Lowe on North American pests and diseases.
language: English
title: Classic Roses: An Illustrated Encyclopedia and Grower's Manual of Old Roses, Shrub Roses and Climbers
titlecomplete: Classic Roses: An Illustrated Encyclopedia and Grower's Manual of Old Roses, Shrub Roses and Climbers
genres: Horticulture, Gardening
ratings_count: 33
publisher: Henry Holt and Co.