Download or read book Roses for English Gardens (Classic Reprint) written by Gertrude Jekyll and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-14 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Roses for English Gardens I have to offer grateful acknowledgment to Miss Willmott for a considerable number of excellent photographs, and for valuable help in compiling the list of Rose species as garden plants; to Mr. W. Robinson for permission to reproduce some Rose portraits from former coloured plates in The Garden; to Mr. Edward Woodall for the chapter on Riviera Garden Roses; to Mr. E. T. Cook for frequent advice and assistance, and to the owners of Tire Garden and Country Life for a number of the illustrations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.