A Book About Roses - How To Grow And Show Them - 9781444658682

Originally published in 1901. The author was Dean of Rochester and a respected expert on rose growing. The illustrated contents include: Causes of Failure - Causes of Success - Our Queen of Beauty - Position - Soils - Manures - Arrangements - Selection - Garden Roses - Rose Shows - Roses for Exhibition - How to Show - Memoranda for the Months - A Select List of Exhibition and Garden Roses etc. Many of the earliest gardening books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: S. Reynolds Hole

Publisher: Read Books

Publication Date: Jan 11, 2010

Number of Pages: 336 pages

Binding: Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10: 1444658689

ISBN-13: 9781444658682