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By Brent Dickerson
This is Volume II of the improved, enlarged Second Edition of the breakthrough classic work on reblooming old roses, known internationally in its First Edition for its fresh research and accuracy. It provides the most complete listing anywhere of all of the existing or otherwise important or interesting varieties of those opulent reblooming old roses, with chapters in this volume on Noisettes and Climbers, Polyanthas, and Hybrid Teas, with ten detailed and useful Appendices, including updates on the author's other books. The author has obtained the most complete and varied descriptions ever, often providing the original descriptions by the actual breeder! This Second Edition has been augmented with many more listings and many more descriptions, and has been re-formatted to increase the ease of use by the reader. This improved edition of a modern classic will be a welcome addition to the reference collection of any lover of roses, horticulture, or horticultural history!
FORMAT: Softcover
By Joyce Stork
Have you ever killed an African violet? Kent and Joyce Stork killed their first violet too! They soon mastered the skills for growing the plant and eventually wrote for the African Violet Magazine, the official publication of the African Violet Society of America, Inc. for over ten years. Their column For Beginners explained the basic elements of growing violets in an entertaining and straightforward way that anyone could understand. Now these columns have been adapted and edited to provide even the most novice grower with a step-by-step guide, whether the goal is simply to keep violets alive or to exhibit the plants in competitive shows.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Joyce Stork
Have you ever killed an African violet? Kent and Joyce Stork killed their first violet too! They soon mastered the skills for growing the plant and eventually wrote for the African Violet Magazine, the official publication of the African Violet Society of America, Inc. for over ten years. Their column For Beginners explained the basic elements of growing violets in an entertaining and straightforward way that anyone could understand. Now these columns have been adapted and edited to provide even the most novice grower with a step-by-step guide, whether the goal is simply to keep violets alive or to exhibit the plants in competitive shows.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Dianne Benson
This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Author's Guild/BIP specs. Author Bio: Designer, writer, lecturer, and once-owner of four highly innovative fashion stores called Dianne B., Dianne Benson has been described as "A woman of fashion, a fabulous purveyor of words, stance, and attitude." She took up gardening with a fervor twelve years ago at the East Hampton home she shares with her husband and their dogs. Book description: Dirt digs with humor and depth into the fine art of gardening with a highly unique style. With unrestrained excess, style-setter Dianne Benson has written a gardening primer so vivid and memorable that one of her fans lliteraly compared it to the Bible. Everything you need to know-from what to plant to what to wear.
FORMAT: Softcover
By George Edward Weigel
A straight forward method on organic gardening. How to prepare your soil, how to build a compost bin, seeding through harvest and preserving your garden bounty. A strategy to incorporate natural concepts, without using any dangerous chemicals. Also choosing the right vegetables and fruit for their nutritional value.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Brent C. Dickerson
This detailed book is the useful long-awaited and efficient comprehensive index to Brent C. Dickerson's fascinating works on Old Roses. The index lists all of the roses in these internationally-known, influential works, and specifies to the reader which page in which of these books has the main or important entry on the rose in question; also indexed here are all substantive references to people, places, things, or concepts in these important works which arose from Dickerson's twenty years of careful research and close study. "The Old Rose Index" additionally includes complete and updated appendices listing roses by year and by color, several interesting articles, as well as updates to Dickerson's previous books—plus completly new entries on 29 interesting old roses not covered previously! While not for those who do not own Dickerson's other books, "The Old Rose Index" will give the reader who does own these monumental works complete mastery over the great treasury of information supplied by "The Old Rose Advisor" (second edition), "The Old Rose Adventurer", and "The Old Rose Informant", saving time and streamlining research in one's quest for information. This remarkable book is the key that unlocks that treasury!
FORMAT: Softcover
By Brent Dickerson
This is the improved, enlarged Second Edition of the breakthrough classic work on reblooming old roses, known internationally in its First Edition for its fresh research and accuracy. It provides the most complete listing of all of the existing or otherwise important or interesting varieties of those opulent reblooming old roses, with chapters on Bourbons, Hybrid Perpetuals, Damask Perpetuals, Chinas, and Teas. The author has obtained the most complete and varied collection of descriptions ever, often providing the original descriptions by the actual breeder! This Second Edition has been augmented with many more listings and many more descriptions, and has been re-formatted to increase the ease of use by the reader. This improved edition of a modern classic will be a welcome addition to the reference collection of any lover of roses, horticulture, or horticultural history!
FORMAT: Softcover
By Brent Dickerson
Old Roses: The Master List is the most complete and accurate listing ever of Old Roses! It includes the correct names, synonyms, breeders, dates, classifications, parentages, and flower color of Old Roses both well-known and heretofore completely obscure, the result of more than two decades of comprehensive and painstaking research by the internationally-known rose historian and author Brent C. Dickerson, whose previous works have revolutionized the study of Old Roses. Rosarians will now have at their fingertips the full array of basic information on these gloried plants. This second edition updates and expands the first edition, adding no less than 1,603 new listings, as well as a unique chronological bibliography.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Brent Dickerson
Old Roses: The Master List is the most complete and accurate listing ever of Old Roses! It includes the correct names, synonyms, breeders, dates, classifications, parentages, and flower color of Old Roses both well-known and heretofore completely obscure, the result of more than two decades of comprehensive and painstaking research by the internationally-known rose historian and author Brent C. Dickerson, whose previous works have revolutionized the study of Old Roses. Rosarians will now have at their fingertips the full array of basic information on these gloried plants. This second edition updates and expands the first edition, adding no less than 1,603 new listings, as well as a unique chronological bibliography.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Marie Miczak
Welcome to the wonderful world of flowers! Whether you're looking to create a chic edible floral soup or a truly personal perfume, you will find it in this book. The only book to explore the many uses of flowers, from the far east of the exotic Orient to the warm charm of the Victorian era, this book brings it all to you in an easy-to-understand format. Charts including essential oil blending and Kempo will allow you to cross reference floral use. The many recipes and condition charts help you to quickly prepare a remedy or lavish treat.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Brent Dickerson
This book is a unique and important compendium of some of the rare literature in Rose History, including the first-ever full English translation of the major written works of Jean-Pierre Vibert, pieces by him on culture, hybridization, nomenclature, exhibiting, and unsavory practices, as well as cutting-edge chapters by author and translator Brent C. Dickerson on the previously unknown first phase of many of the most significant rose classes, including Hybrid Teas, Bourbons, Damask Perpetuals, Chinas, Hybrid Perpetuals, Hybrid Chinas, and much much more! The reader will join in the probings and controversies as Rose Progress struggles with a proud heart and high hopes through the rich days when Old Roses were king. Dickerson's previous works *The Old Rose Advisor* and *The Old Rose Adventurer* revolutionized the study of Old Roses; this book,*The Old Rose Informant*, completes the trilogy and provides the capstone to his acclaimed and long-continued work. As is the case with few books in the field, the publication of *The Old Rose Informant*, with its humor, its new data, its many chapters of otherwise unavailable material, and its spirited and insightful looks at Rose Progress, is an important event in Gardening Literature. Also published by iuniverse is the author's useful and necessary research aid *Roll-Call: The Old Rose Breeder*.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Brent Dickerson
This is the improved, enlarged Second Edition of the breakthrough classic work on reblooming old roses, known internationally in its First Edition for its fresh research and accuracy. It provides the most complete listing of all of the existing or otherwise important or interesting varieties of those opulent reblooming old roses, with chapters on Bourbons, Hybrid Perpetuals, Damask Perpetuals, Chinas, and Teas. The author has obtained the most complete and varied collection of descriptions ever, often providing the original descriptions by the actual breeder! This Second Edition has been augmented with many more listings and many more descriptions, and has been re-formatted to increase the ease of use by the reader. This improved edition of a modern classic will be a welcome addition to the reference collection of any lover of roses, horticulture, or horticultural history!
FORMAT: E-Book
By Brent Dickerson
This book is a unique and important compendium of some of the rare literature in Rose History, including the first-ever full English translation of the major written works of Jean-Pierre Vibert, pieces by him on culture, hybridization, nomenclature, exhibiting, and unsavory practices, as well as cutting-edge chapters by author and translator Brent C. Dickerson on the previously unknown first phase of many of the most significant rose classes, including Hybrid Teas, Bourbons, Damask Perpetuals, Chinas, Hybrid Perpetuals, Hybrid Chinas, and much much more! The reader will join in the probings and controversies as Rose Progress struggles with a proud heart and high hopes through the rich days when Old Roses were king. Dickerson's previous works *The Old Rose Advisor* and *The Old Rose Adventurer* revolutionized the study of Old Roses; this book,*The Old Rose Informant*, completes the trilogy and provides the capstone to his acclaimed and long-continued work. As is the case with few books in the field, the publication of *The Old Rose Informant*, with its humor, its new data, its many chapters of otherwise unavailable material, and its spirited and insightful looks at Rose Progress, is an important event in Gardening Literature. Also published by iuniverse is the author's useful and necessary research aid *Roll-Call: The Old Rose Breeder*.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Marie Miczak
Welcome to the wonderful world of flowers! Whether you're looking to create a chic edible floral soup or a truly personal perfume, you will find it in this book. The only book to explore the many uses of flowers, from the far east of the exotic Orient to the warm charm of the Victorian era, this book brings it all to you in an easy-to-understand format. Charts including essential oil blending and Kempo will allow you to cross reference floral use. The many recipes and condition charts help you to quickly prepare a remedy or lavish treat.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Brent Dickerson
This is Volume II of the improved, enlarged Second Edition of the breakthrough classic work on reblooming old roses, known internationally in its First Edition for its fresh research and accuracy. It provides the most complete listing anywhere of all of the existing or otherwise important or interesting varieties of those opulent reblooming old roses, with chapters in this volume on Noisettes and Climbers, Polyanthas, and Hybrid Teas, with ten detailed and useful Appendices, including updates on the author's other books. The author has obtained the most complete and varied descriptions ever, often providing the original descriptions by the actual breeder! This Second Edition has been augmented with many more listings and many more descriptions, and has been re-formatted to increase the ease of use by the reader. This improved edition of a modern classic will be a welcome addition to the reference collection of any lover of roses, horticulture, or horticultural history!
FORMAT: E-Book
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