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Summary: From the Author
Review: Thanks for your kind interest in this book! I consider "The Old Rose Informant" to be the capstone of my nearly two decades of work on Old Roses, bringing the reader to a wonderful realm of roses and rose-lovers, a realm where no other book reaches. Presented here for the very first time, in English, are the complete basic works of the master rosarian Jean-Pierre Vibert, touching on the complete range of his era's roses, rose-culture, and rose concerns, including his fascinating observations, sage theories, and sharp controversies. Further chapters offer other lengthy excerpts from other noted rosarians of the old rose era on such topics as rose-shows, pruning, grafting, raising roses from seed, nomenclature, cross-breeding, and more. A major part of the book is comprised of the author's original and pioneering research on the origins and progress of many of the most important groups of old roses, such as the Damask Perpetuals, Chinas, Teas, Noisettes, Bourbons, Hybrid Perpetuals, Pernetianas, and others, covering new ground and rewriting our understanding of rose history and development. This is a book not only for the old rose specialist who wishes to gain deeper understanding of the old rose era, but also for the armchair gardener who will enjoy the literate prose, acuity, humanity, and wisdom of Vibert and his colleagues as they shape rosedom's budding progress!
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Summary: From the Author
Review: Thanks for your kind interest in this book! I consider "The Old Rose Informant" to be the capstone of my nearly two decades of work on Old Roses, bringing the reader to a wonderful realm of roses and rose-lovers, a realm where no other book reaches. Presented here for the very first time, in English, are the complete basic works of the master rosarian Jean-Pierre Vibert, touching on the complete range of his era's roses, rose-culture, and rose concerns, including his fascinating observations, sage theories, and sharp controversies. Further chapters offer other lengthy excerpts from other noted rosarians of the old rose era on such topics as rose-shows, pruning, grafting, raising roses from seed, nomenclature, cross-breeding, and more. A major part of the book is comprised of the author's original and pioneering research on the origins and progress of many of the most important groups of old roses, such as the Damask Perpetuals, Chinas, Teas, Noisettes, Bourbons, Hybrid Perpetuals, Pernetianas, and others, covering new ground and rewriting our understanding of rose history and development. This is a book not only for the old rose specialist who wishes to gain deeper understanding of the old rose era, but also for the armchair gardener who will enjoy the literate prose, acuity, humanity, and wisdom of Vibert and his colleagues as they shape rosedom's budding progress!
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