The Book of Roses
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About This Book
Francis Parkman Jr. (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as historical sources and as literature. He was also a leading horticulturist, briefly a professor of Horticulture at Harvard University and author of several books on the topic. Parkman was a trustee of the Boston Athenæum from 1858 until his death in 1893. Early Parkman was born in Boston, Massachusetts to the Reverend Francis Parkm...
Chapters (26)
- THE BOOK OF ROSES
- Boston J. E. Tilton And Company.
- TO Edward Sprague Rand, Jr., A Horticulturist Whose Energy And Skill Have Made "A Wilderness To Blossom As The Rose," This Book Is Cordially Inscribed.
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I. OPEN AIR CULTURE
- CHAPTER II. POT CULTURE
- CHAPTER III. PROPAGATION
- CHAPTER IV. MISCELLANEOUS OPERATIONS
- CHAPTER V. GROUPS and FAMILIES
- CHAPTER VI. SUMMER ROSES
- CHAPTER VII. AUTUMNAL ROSES
- ROSES MOST APPROVED BY THE BEST CULTIVATORS OF THE PRESENT DAY
- In Addition To Those already mentioned under their respective Classes. PROVENCE ROSES.
- MOSS ROSES.
- DAMASK ROSES.
- ALBA ROSES.
- GALLICA ROSES
- HYBRID CHINA ROSES.
- AUTUMNAL ROSES. CHINA ROSES.
- VIRIDIFLORA, GREEN, CURIOUS. TEA-SCENTED ROSES.
- NOISETTE ROSES.
- BOURBON ROSES.
- HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSES.
- PERPETUAL MOSS ROSES.
- NEW ROSES OF 1866
- THE END.
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