The rose garden in two divisions. Division I. Embracing the history of the rose, the formation of the rosarium and a detailed account of the various practices adopted in the successful cultivation of this popular flower ... Division II. Containing an arrangement, in natural groups, of the most esteemed varieties of roses recognised and cultivated in the various rose gardens English and foreign...
London: Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 23 Paternostger Row. Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Co. and to be had of all booksellers, 1848. 8vo, pp. [4], ii, [6], 151, [1]; [2], 3-177, [3]; 15 hand-colored lithograph plates of roses printed by Mourilyan & Casey, lithographers after J. Wakeling and also by Day & Son, lithographers to the Queen after J. Andrews; other wood-engraved illustrations in the text throughout; original green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; extremities worn and some fading of the spine, top of spine chipped level with text block, hinges starting, small crack in the cloth at the top of the upper joint; internally quite clean and the plates vibrant. With an early ownership inscription on the front pastedown and a rubberstamp of the same on the title page. The Rose Garden reached a twelfth edition by 1903 and was reprinted as late as 1978. Paul (1822-1905) was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1875, and was the initial recipient of the Victoria medal of horticulture when it was first instituted in 1897. Sitwell, Great Flower Books, p. 124. Item #58055
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