Book ID: 86104
Quest - Ritson, Charles and Brigid Quest - Ritson
The Royal Horti- cultural Society Encyclopedia of Roses. 2003. Many col. photogr. 448 p. 4to. Hardcover.
The first part of this book is made up as an A - Z of Roses,with entries of about 2000 individual rose species and cultivars,giving origin, flower size, scent, flowering, heights/spread,hardiness, plus extra information, e.g. history. The second part isdedicated to cultivating roses. Introductory chapter on the historyof the rose.