📚 Roses

The queen of the garden: classes and breeding, and the culture that keeps the beds worth it.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject roses in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Star roses	Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection	1931	87
	Sundials and Roses of Yesterday	Alice Morse Earle	2010	22
	New floral guide	Conard & Jones Co. (West Grove, Pa.)	1898	20
	Hints on care and culture of roses	McClung Bros. Rose Nursery	1936	16
	The Parade of modern roses and perennials	Jackson & Perkins Co	1948	14
	A book about roses	S. Reynolds Hole	1869	12
	Roses for English gardens	Gertrude Jekyll	1902	10
	Roses (Time-Life Encyclopedia of Gardening)	James Underwood Crockett	1971	10
	The book of roses	Catherine Gore	1838	9
	The rose	Ellwanger, H. B.	1882	9
	The rose amateur's guide	Rivers, Thomas	1837	8
	The rose manual	Robert Buist	1844	8
	The book of the rose	Andrew Foster-Melliar	1894	8
	Commercial rose culture, under glass and outdoors	Eber Holmes	1911	8
	Roses of yesterday and today	Will Tillotson's Roses (Firm)	1954	8
	The rose garden	Paul, William	1848	7
	Cultural directions for the rose	John Cranston	1873	7
	La rose dans l'antiquité et au moyen âge	Charles Joret	1892	7
	The old shrub roses	Graham Stuart Thomas	1955	7
	Roses for dummies	Lance Walheim	1997	7
	A book of roses	John Ramsbottom	1939	6
	English roses	Austin, David	1993	6
	The rose book	Thomas, H. H.	1914	5
	For love of a rose	Antonia Ridge	1965	5
	All about roses	Rex Wolf	1983	5
	In Search of Lost Roses	Thomas Christopher	1989	5
	The rose garden, in two divisions	Paul, William	1875	4
	Climbing roses old and new	Graham Stuart Thomas	1965	4
	Rose recipes from olden times	Eleanour Sinclair Rohde	1973	4
	Random House Book of Roses (Random House Book of ... (Garden Plants))	Roger Phillips	1988	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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