The Rose Book
A Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Rose
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- Author: Shirley Hibberd
- Date Published: March 2012
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108045384
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James Shirley Hibberd (1825–90) was a journalist and writer on gardening, whose popular works had great influence on middle-class taste. Although not a trained horticulturalist, his many books were based on practical experience. He developed a succession of gardens in North London, concentrating on particular types of plants, and his books reflected this work, with this book of 1864 and The Fern Garden (1869) being particularly successful. He also wrote on garden design, flower arrangement, garden furniture and architecture, and his Rustic Adornments of 1856 (reissued in this series, together with The Fern Garden), is an interesting document of social history. He edited the magazine Floral World until 1875 and later The Gardener's Magazine, and was even consulted by the government about potato blight. His engaging and very personal style made him a popular forerunner of modern celebrity gardeners, and set a fashion for highly decorative and ornamental gardens.
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- Date Published: March 2012
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108045384
- length: 304 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.39kg
- contains: 25 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. The families of wild roses
2. The families of cultivated roses
3. Forming the rosarium
4. Culture of roses in the open ground
5. Climbing roses
6. Pillar roses
7. Yellow roses
8. Roses in pots
9. Roses in beds
10. Roses in great towns
11. Tea roses in towns
12. Various modes of propagating
Select list of roses
Reminders of monthly work in the rose garden
Index.
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