The Rose
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9781848878341
Table of contents: title: List of Illustrations xi; title: Preface xvii; title: Origins; title: I A Wild Youth 3; title: 2. Aphrodite's Flower 18; title: 3. Rome's Frenzy  29; title: 4. Of Travels and Trade; title: The Symbolic Rose; title: 5. The Virgins Bower 73; title: 6. Sex and Sorcery  92; title: 7. Secrets of the rose Cross 112; title: Europe's Old Roses; title: 8. Elizabeth's Briar 131; title: 9. Dutch Masters 160; title: 10. Memories of Malmaison 178; title: Roses of East and West; title: 11. Chinese Whispers 207; title: 12/ The Prophet's Rose 240; title: 13. American beauties  263; title: The Useful Rose; title: 14. A Cure for Divers Ills 293; title: 15. The Housewife's Friend  313; title: 16. Heaven's scent  332; title: Modern Times; title: 17. Rose Mania 363; title: 18. Into the Rose Garden  395; title: 19. The Language of Flowers  420; title: 20. Why the Rose?  444; title: The Travelling Rose  456; title: The Evolution of Garden Roses  458; title: Acknowledgements  460; title: Main Sources, Select Bibliography and Notes 463; title: Index 507