
Length1h 55m
About this audiobook
Mega Square Roses presents the large number of different species of this unique flower, which is charged with so many feelings and imbued with powerful cultural significance. Because of the rose's botanical as well as artistic value, this book features a popular subject for art lovers as well as for people who enjoy the beauty and versatility of flowers. Each of the colourful and detailed illustrations is completed with the aid of valuable scientific information.
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GenreOther
Length1 hr 55 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 1, 2011
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Roses Roses
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3— Pierre de Ronsard
4Cottony Rose (variety with double flowers)
5Rosa sulfurea
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6particular
7Treatise on Agriculture by Piero Crescenzi (which
8China Rose “Old Blush China”
9Rosa pomponia
10Moss Rose “De Meaux”
11varieties, almost always unrecognisable and devoid of
12Austrian Yellow Rose
13Hortus Eystettensis – by Basilius Besler, the Nuremberg
14Austrian Copper Rose
15Linnaean reform.
16spread throughout Europe, and, at the centre of the
17history reference volumes with scant reproductions of
18not entirely without merit as far as the execution of the
19White Moss Rose
20offer engravings of forty-nine roses, with the colour
21engravings in this collection, similar to those in the work
22Marsh Rose
23Rosa alba (Regalis)
24The Plates
25quite often eleven leaflets, elliptical in shape, some with
26Redouté Rose with Red Stems and Prickles
27Autumn Damask Rose
28Rosa centifolia (Mutabilis)
29This rare and beautiful variety grows as a bushy
30Burnet Rose “Double Pink Scotch Briar”
31the mid-rib of the leaflet with the odd number of leaves.
32Monthly Rose “Slater’s Crimson China”
33younger canes, very close together on older ones –
34This beautiful variety of the Rose of France grows into
35French Rose “Versicolor”
36those of the Virginia Rose (Rosa Lucida) – but darker
37French Rose “Rose d’Amour”
38to the touch – with forked stipules at the base and
39Anjou-Rose
40slightly humid soil with a very favourable exposure. The
41with some very fine thorns, irregular, hooked, mixed
42The branches of this rosebush spread on the ground
43on the upper side, somewhat downy (tomentose) on the
44Known in England as Royal Provins or The Queen’s
45Provins Royal
46dark green, smooth on the outside and downy
47French Rose “The Bishop”
48ordinary Centifolia and in a deeper pink than that of the
49Rose; Variegated Purple China Rose; Velvet China Rose;
50grows on a bushy shrub two or three feet high. Its smooth