BY SAMUEL B. PARSONS .
PREFACE TO NEW EDITION.
CONTENTS.
PARSONS ON THE ROSE.
CHAPTER I. BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION.
CHAPTER II. GARDEN CLASSIFICATION.
CHAPTER III. GENERAL CULTURE OF THE ROSE.
CHAPTER IV. SOIL, SITUATION, AND PLANTING.
CHAPTER V. PRUNING, TRAINING, AND BEDDING.
CHAPTER VI. POTTING AND FORCING.
CHAPTER VII. PROPAGATION OF THE ROSE.
CHAPTER VIII. MULTIPLICATION BY SEED AND HYBRIDIZING.
CHAPTER IX. DISEASES AND INSECTS ATTACKING THE ROSE. Brave
HISTORY OF THE ROSE.
CHAPTER X. THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROSE, AND FABLES RESPECTING ITS ORIGIN.
CHAPTER XI. LUXURIOUS USE OF THE ROSE.
CHAPTER XII. THE ROSE, IN CEREMONIES AND FESTIVALS, AND IN THE ADORNMENT OF BURIAL-PLACES.
CHAPTER XIII. THE ROSE IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
CHAPTER XIV. PERFUMES OF THE ROSE.
CHAPTER XV. THE MEDICAL PROPERTIES OF THE ROSE.
CHAPTER XVI. GENERAL REMARKS.
INDEX.
FOOTNOTES:
Title: Parsons on the Rose
A Treatise on the Propagation, Culture and History of the Rose
Author: Samuel Browne Parsons
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PARSONS ON THE ROSE.
A TREATISE ON THE
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