Old Books about Old Roses

From Rosarum Monographia.

Ethelyn Emery Keays wrote the classic 1935 book Old Roses.  Ethelyn was a rose rustler before there was such a name for the people who went searching for our lost rose varieties in gardens, cemeteries, and road sides.

Her chapter on "Libraries and Rose Books" lists the books that she used for her rose research. Ethelyn visited these books at libraries and gardens. Many of the books are online now. She might have loved the easy access to all of these old books. It would have have made research quite easy. However, I suspect that she enjoyed meeting the interesting people who took care of the books.

I have collected several of her references here and will add as I go.

References

• Rosarum Monographia, by John Lindley, 1820. Mr. Lindley had the honor of naming our giant Sequoia after an English war hero Wellington.  Can you imagine the outcry that caused?
• How to Grow Roses, Pyle, McFarland, Stevens, 1930
• A Collection of Roses from Nature, Mary Lawrance,  1796-1799, from the New York Public Library. Plates are scanned. Also other book recommendations.
• Les Roses, Redouté, 
• Manual Complet de l'Amateur de Roses, Pierre Boitard, 1836.
• The Rose Garden, in two divisions, William Paul, 1848
• The Rose, S.B. Parson, 1847
• Beauties of the Rose; Containing Portraits of the Principal Varieties of the Choicest Perpetuals. With Plain Instructions for Their Cultivation, Henry Curtis, 1850-53
• Les Roses, Histoire, Culture, Description, Hippolyte Jamain, Eugène Forney, 1873, not online.
• The Amateur Gardener's Rose Book, Julius Hoffmann, 1908
• Roses and Rose Growing, Miss Rose G. Kingsley, 1908
• The Genus Rosa, Miss Ellen Willmott, 1910-14
• Botanitcal Magazine, Curtis,
• Manual of Roses: Comprising the Most Complete History of the Rose, Including every class and all the most admirable varieties that have appeared in Europe and America together with ample infomration on their culture and propagation, William Robert Prince, 1846
• The rose: its history, poetry, culture, and classification, S.B. Parsons, 1847
• The Rose Manual, 1849, Philadelphia, not found, but perhaps this is the same as the next one?
• The Rose Manual; containing accurate descriptions of all the finest varieties of roses properly classed in their respective families their character and mode of culture with directions for their propagation and the destruction of insects with engravings, Buist Robert, 1844
• The rose; a treatise on the cultivation, history, family characteristics, etc., of the various groups of roses, with accurate descriptions of the varieties now generally grown, H. B. Ellwanger, 1882, Rochester, New York
• The Scented Garden, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
• Ram's Little Dodoen, 1606, recipe for sweet bag, not online, but you can search for it in a library.

The Old Rose Advisor has a huge list of citations. More later!