Classic Roses

Hardback  ISBN 1860463029      £40.00

This is a new edition of garden literature's definitive and most celebrated encyclopaedia of roses. Peter Beales is a world-class gardener and his own collection of roses now numbers well over 2,000 species and varieties. His book, completely re-illustrated for this new edition with more than 600 colour photographs, identifies and describes all the species, cultivators and varieties that have stood the test of time from the ancient Chinese teas to the York and Lancaster roses, from the Provence and Bourbons to the humble rugosas. Classic Roses is an authoritative history of the rose and an essential manual for all rose growers and rose lovers, a definitive guide to the buying, propagation, feeding and pruning of old roses and important hybrids, shrub roses and climbers. It is a beautifully produced synthesis of all Peter Beales' vast knowledge and experience of man€s favourite flower