Landscaping with Antique Roses [Designing the garden -- Integrating roses into the landscape -- Rustling, propagating, purchasing -- Planting, protecting, pruning -- Encyclopedia of selected old garden roses]

1st ed., 1st printing ; xi, 227 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm ; ISBN 9780942391640, 0942391640 OCLC 24246433 ; LCCN 91030006 ; LC SB411.65.O55 D78 1992 ; Dewey 635.933372 ; color photographic boards ; no dustjacket ; Contents: Designing the garden -- Integrating roses into the landscape -- Rustling, propagating, purchasing -- Planting, protecting, pruning -- Encyclopedia of selected old garden roses ; "A Fine gardening book--T.p. verso ; Shows how to use old roses in landscaping, as climbers, ramblers, trailers, or in containers, and explains how to propagate, plant, protect, and prune them. ; Like some old houses, old garden roses have ahd to weather tough times while the interest of gardeners centered on those young up-starts from the late-19th century, the hybrid teas. All but forgottenin a corner of Grandma's garden, these antique varieties, which existed prior to 1867, have been recently rediscovered, collected, and identified by antique rose enthusiasts. If you are considering including old roses in your garden , [this] is a comprehensive how-to-guide that will make your choir in plantings a success. Particularly well-organized for beginners, the book covers the care and propagation of old roses, but the most valuable information is in the rose-use reference chart for 80 different species. The chart is a compilation of the ideal climate zones for growing each Old Garden Rose, and lists their genetic characteristics, such as size range, width range, fragrancecolor, frequesncy of bloom, and time of bloom. useful for selecting the appropriate variety for your goarden, this advice is sure to be an asset for the novice gardener. Authors Liz Druitt and Michael Shoup, who started the Antique Rose Emporium, have put together a handy guide for those who want to cultivate and entire old-rose garden or just include one plant as a focal point. This well-illustrated book with its practical advice is sure to bring Older Garden Roses out of the shade and into th e sunlight where they belong. --Lynn Elliott, Old-House Journal, Sept-Oct 1992 ; G, some highlighting.…