Parsons on the Rose: A Nineteenth-Century Guide to Rose Cultivation, Botanical Classification, Pruning, and Garden History - Couverture souple

Parsons, Samuel Browne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8028341411 ISBN 13 : 9788028341411

Editeur : Sharp Ink, 2023

Synopsis

Parsons on the Rose is a richly practical and cultivated nineteenth-century treatise devoted to the rose as plant, ornament, and cultural object. Combining botanical description, historical anecdote, classification, and detailed directions for propagation, pruning, planting, and protection, the book reflects the era's union of scientific horticulture with genteel literary taste. Its prose is lucid, patient, and instructive, yet enlivened by an evident affection for the flower's symbolic and aesthetic prestige. Samuel Browne Parsons, a prominent American nurseryman and horticultural writer, brought to the subject the authority of daily practice as well as broad reading. Associated with the celebrated Parsons nursery of Flushing, New York, he worked amid expanding transatlantic exchange in garden plants and methods. His experience with varieties, soils, climates, and amateur gardeners clearly shaped a book meant to educate without intimidating. Readers interested in garden history, heritage roses, or the development of American horticultural literature will find this volume especially rewarding. It remains valuable not merely as instruction, but as a window onto a culture that treated cultivation as both art and disciplined knowledge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sharp Ink
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8028341411
• ISBN 13: 9788028341411
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 116
• Coordonnées du fabricant: e-artnow s.r.o.; kristoferpaetau@gmail.com; ; Za sidlistem 22; Prague; 14300; Rébublique tchèque