My library of rose books

Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2003 – 8:06 a.m.

2003-12-16 8:06

I have been building my library of books about roses. Here is what I have at this point:

Title Author Publisher Year Published page count ISBN
200 Tips for Growing Beautiful Roses Barbara Blossom Ashman Chicago Review Press 1998 146 1556522770
A Year in the Life of a Rose Rayford Clayton Reddell Harmony Books/Crown Publishers, New York 1996 176 0-517-70669-5
All About Roses Rex Wolf Ortho Books 1995 112 0897212568
American Horticultural Society Practical Guides: Roses Linden Hawthorne DK Publishing, New York 1999 72 0-7894-4155-1
An Illustrated Treasury of Redoute Roses Frank J Anderson Crown Publishers, Inc: New York 1979 104 0517297647
Botanica’s Roses Peter Beales (ed) Random House 1998 704 0-09-183803-7
Burpee Basics: Roses Mary C. Weaver Macmillan Publishing, New York 1998 175 0-02-862636-2
Classic Roses Peter Beales Henry Holt and Company: New York 1997 500 0805055843
Easy Care Roses: Low Maintenance Charmers Brooklyn Botanical Gardens (ed.), Stepheny Brooklyn Botanical Gardens 1995 112 0945352875
Flowers of the World Frances Perry Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited 1972 320
Growing Roses Valerie Swane Kangaroo Press 1992 152 0864174810
Hardy Roses Robert Osborne and Beth Powning Garden Way Publishing, Pownal, VT 1991 138 0-88266-739-4
Identifying Roses John Mattock Chartwell Books, Inc 1994 80 0785800522
Impressionist Roses Derek Fell MetroBooks/Michael Friedman Publishing Group, Inc, New York 2001 144 1-58663-192-6
Making a Rose Garden Ethne Clarke Grove Weidenfeld/Grove Press, New York 1991 113 0802114415
Parsons on the Rose Samuel B. Parsons Orange Judd Company, New York 1883 240
Poulsen on the Rose Sven Poulsen The Garden Book Club 1955 166
Reliable Roses Christine Utterback Clarkson Potter Publishers: New York 1997 192 0609800868
Rosa Gallica Suzanne Verrier Firefly Books, 1995 150 0-913643-12-2
Rosa Rugosa Suzanne Verrier Firefly Books LTD 1999 104 0913643076
Rose Gardens, Their History and Design Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall Henry Holt and Company, New York 1989 202 0-8050-1144-7
Rose Recipes from Olden Times Eleanour Sinclair Rohde Dover Publications, New York 1973 95 0-486-22957-2
Roses Gertrude Jekyll and Edward Mawley The Ayer Company, Salem, NH 1983 166 0-88143-001-3
Roses Peter Cotes Octopus Books, london 1973 96 0-7064-0055-0
Roses Editors of Sunset Books Sunset Books, Menlo Park, CA 1998 128 0376036583
Roses for Dummies Lance Walheim and Editors of the National Gardening Association IDG Books Worldwide, Inc, Foster City, CA 1997 330 0-7645-5031-4
Roses of Yesterday (Vintage Rose Catalog) Francis E Lester and Will Tillotson The Lester Rose Gardens, Watsonville, CA 1950 64
Roses: Old Roses and Species Roses Paul Starosta, Eleonore Cruse Evergreen/Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH, Cologne 1998 128 3-8228-7761-1
Secrets of the Miniature Rose Elizabeth Abler Taylor Trade Publishing, Lanham, MD 2003 139 0-87833-311-8
Smith & Hawken 100 Old Roses for the American Garden Clair G. Martin Workman Publishing, New York 1999 278 0-7611-1341-X
Stories of the Rose Anne Winston-Allen Pennsyvania State University Press 1997 224 0271016310
Taylor’s Guide to Roses Nancy J. Ondra Houghton Mifflin 2001 474 0-618-06888-0
Taylor’s Pocket Guide to Old-fashioned Roses Maggie Oster (ed) Houghton Mifflin 1989 128 0395510155
The Classic Garden Graham Rose Summit Books, New York 1989 192 0-671-68840-5
The Companion to Roses John Fisher Salem House Publishers: Topsfield, MA 1986 224 0881622303
The Complete Rosarian Norman Young St. Martins Press, New York 1971 286
The Consise Handbook of Roses Eigil Kiaer, Verner Hancke E. P Dutton & Co., New York 1966 111
The Essential Rose Garden Peter McHoy anness publishing ltd, new york 1998 96 1-84038-071-3
The Glory of Roses Christopher Baker and Allen Lacy Steward, Tabori and Chang, New York 1990 239 1-55670-448-8
The Graham Stuart Thomas Rose Book Graham Stuart Thomas SagaPress, Inc/Timber Press Inc 1994 385 0-88192-280-3
The History of the Rose Roy E. Shepherd Macmillan Co. New York 1954 264
The Magic World of Roses Matthew A. R. Bassity Hearthside Press, New York 1966 224
The Natural Rose Gardener Lance Walheim Ironwood Press, Tucson,AZ 1994 160 0-9628236-3-5
The Old Rose Adventurer Brent C. Dickerson Timber Press, Portland, Oregon 1999 616 0-88192-466-0
The Old Rose Advisor Brent C. Dickerson Timber Press, Portland, OR 1992 400 0-88192-216-1
The Quest for the Rose Roger Phillips, Martyn Rix Random House, New York 1993 256 0-679-43573-5
The Random House Book of Roses Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix Random House, New York 1988 224 0-394-75867-6
The Rockwells’ Complete Book of Roses F. F. Rockwell and Esther C. Grayson American Garden Guild/Doubleday 1958 332
The Rose Bible Rayford Clayton Reddell Harmony Books, New York 1994 252 0-517-58821-8
The Rose Expert Dr. D. G. Hessayon Expert Books 1995 128 0903505258
The Rose Question and Answer Book John Milton Heatherside Press, New York 1965 192
The Rose’s Kiss Peter Bernhardt Shearwater Books/Island Press, Washington, DC 1999 267 1-55963-564-9
The Rose-Lover’s Guide Roland A. Browne Atheneum 1974 235 0-689-10606-8
The Rose: Myth, Folklore and Legend Ann Mayhew, Michael Pollard Walker and Company, New York 1979 125 0-8027-0642-8
The Ultimate Rose Book Stirling Macoboy Harry N. Abrams, Inc, New York 1993 472 0-8109-3920-7

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