Parsons on the Rose

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Author

Parsons, Samuel Browne, 1819-1906

Title

Parsons on the Rose A Treatise on the Propagation, Culture and History of the Rose

Credits

E-text prepared by David T. Jones, Mardi Desjardins, Ronald Tolkien, and the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team ( www.pgdpcanada.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries ( archive.org/details/toronto)

Language

English

LoC Class

SB: Agriculture: Plant culture

Subject

Rose culture

Category

Text

eBook-No.

48186

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48186

Release Date

February 7, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.PARSONS ON THE ROSE. — PROPAGATION, CULTURE, AND HISTORY OF THE ROSE
2. 2.BY SAMUEL B. PARSONS . — NEW AND REVISED EDITION. — NEW YORK: ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 1908
3. 3.PREFACE TO NEW EDITION.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.PARSONS ON THE ROSE.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. — BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. — GARDEN CLASSIFICATION.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. — GENERAL CULTURE OF THE ROSE.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. — SOIL, SITUATION, AND PLANTING.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. — PRUNING, TRAINING, AND BEDDING.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. — POTTING AND FORCING.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. — PROPAGATION OF THE ROSE.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. — MULTIPLICATION BY SEED AND HYBRIDIZING.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. — DISEASES AND INSECTS ATTACKING THE ROSE.
15. 15.HISTORY OF THE ROSE.
16. 16.CHAPTER X. — THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROSE, AND FABLES RESPECTING ITS ORIGIN.
17. 17.CHAPTER XI. — LUXURIOUS USE OF THE ROSE.
18. 18.CHAPTER XII. — THE ROSE, IN CEREMONIES AND FESTIVALS, AND IN THE ADORNMENT OF BURIAL-PLACES.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII. — THE ROSE IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV. — PERFUMES OF THE ROSE.
21. 21.CHAPTER XV. — THE MEDICAL PROPERTIES OF THE ROSE.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI. — GENERAL REMARKS.
23. 23.INDEX.
24. 24.FOOTNOTES: — Transcribers Note:

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