BOOKS ON ROSES .15.

Title.  ROSA GALLICA

Author. Suzanne Verrier, William Grant

Publisher.  Firefly Books

Year. 2001

Language.  English

ISBN 9780913643129

Beautiful Gallicas are the oldest roses cultivated in Western gardens and are fundamental to the increasingly popular and informal “English cottage” gardening style.
Rosa Gallica is the only easily accessible and complete guide to these ancient, romantic roses that are easily grown by all gardeners-novice and experienced alike.
Gallicas are healthy, disease-free, pest-resistant, hardy and surprisingly accommodating. Especially suitable for novices or gardeners short on time.
Gallicas are: well-suited to organic gardening methods able to thrive without chemicals and sprays tolerant of shade and erratic watering and completely hardy. Densely-growing and undemanding shrubs, Gallicas do not need special soil and provide attractive year-round ground cover.
They are ideal for modern small gardens and also useful as excellent low hedges. Their natural shapes and good color act as a welcome alternative to monotone green shrubs or foundation planting. Rosa Gallica contains the author’s full-color photographs throughout and all the information needed to start growing: detailed entries describe varieties information on origin, history, and growing characteristics.
On its own, or with its sister title, “Rosa Rugosa,” Rosa Gallica is a superior addition to any gardener’s book collection.

 

BOOKS ON ROSES .14.

THE ROSES   The Complete Plates

Author.  Petra-Andrea Hinz,  Barbara Schulz .

Publisher.  Taschen

Language. English

Hardcover 204 pages

ISBN  978-3-8228-3810-5

The refined and revered tradition of botanical illustration, produced under aristocratic patronage, stretches back to the Renaissance. It emerged out of the desire to catalogue nature in all its wild splendour, and it was a process that demanded the most precise and skilful of artists. 

The flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté is often viewed as one of the last and the best of these painters and engravers. Commissioned by among others, Napoleon’s Josephine, Redouté studied with the finest flower painters in France and Amsterdam, and developed a breathtaking skill at translating his observations of nature onto paper. His illustrations of the botanical alphabets of D.-M. Guillemin were a landmark in flower painting for their accuracy and beauty. He was also an innovator in the techniques of printing, introducing “stipple-engraving” to France, always striving for greater exactitude in his art.

This is a glorious and completely faithful reproduction of his most celebrated work Les Roses, which was published in three volumes between 1817 and 1824. In Les Roses he turns his attention to that most romantic and evocative of subjects, and this handsome volume preserves every detail of Redouté’s masterful representation of nature’s gifts.

“Splendid roses of timeless beauty. A jewel, and not just for rose-lovers.”
Stuttgarter Zeitung, Germany

About the authors:
Petra-Andrea Hinz (born 1956) studied biology at the ETH in Zurich, specialising in botany. She presented her doctorate on Systematic Botany to the Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques in Geneva. She has been involved in a project on the history of botany at the Institute of the History of the Natural Sciences at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich since 1992.

Barbara Schulz trained as a graphic artist and has since been working as a restorer. She has an excellent knowledge of graphic techniques, and has devoted particular attention to the work of Redouté.

 

ROSES IN SONG.16.

ROSES ARE RED.   Bobby Vinton.

Roses are red, my love … doo doo da doooo …

A long, long time ago, on graduation day.
You handed me your book … I signed this way:

“Roses are red, My Love,
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet, My Love,
But not as sweet as you.”

We dated through high school,
And when the big day came,
I wrote into your book,
next to my name:

“Roses are red, My Love,
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet, My Love,
But not as sweet as you.”

Then I went far away, and you found someone new.
I read your letter, Dear, and I wrote back to you:

“Roses are red, My Love,
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet, My Love,
Good luck, may God bless you.”

Is that your little girl?
She looks a lot like you.
Someday some boy will write
in her book, too.

” Roses are red, My Love,
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet, My Love,
But not as sweet as you.”

Roses are Red single cover

BOOKS ON ROSES .13.

2009: – All About Roses
Author: Dr. Tommy Cairns
Publisher: Meredith Books (Ortho Books), United States of America
Year: 2007
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0-696-23217-6

This book presents expert growing techniques together with a comprehensive guide to more than 350 of the best roses for the garden. It is the best-selling rose book in North America and is specially directed to encourage and promote rose growing amongst the general public. This latest edition has been updated and expanded to include the latest and most exciting developments in rose breeding.

 

 

The World Federation of Rose Societies awarded this book their Literary Award as an outstanding book on roses.