1869 Parsons on the Rose: A Treatise on the Propagation, Culture & History of the Rose ~ Floriculture ~ Samuel Browne Parsons ~ Horticulture

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

Author: Samuel B. [Browne] Parsons

Description: New and Revised Edition, 1869 copyright. Original green cloth beveled boards stamped in gilt with rose pictorial on front cover. Bit of wear to spine ends and corners. Interior is clean and unmarked. Illustrated. 12mo. pp. 215 plus [1] advertising.

This very popular treatise on roses by horticulturist Samuel Browne Parsons, Sr. (1819-1906) was first published in 1847 under the title ''The Rose: its history, poetry, culture, and classification.'' In 1869, the publisher Orange Judd issued this new and revised edition.

The author, a native of Flushing, New York, started his own nursery business in 1839 and traveled multiple times to Europe to study the horticulture of the Old World. His son, Samuel B. Parsons, Jr., became the head landscape architect of New York City in 1895 and a few later helped found the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: Orange Judd and Company
Place: New York
Year: 1869

Keywords: floriculture, horticulture,