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Roses: a Celebration.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Ed. by Wayne Winterrowd. Oct. 2003. 256p. illus. index. Farrar/North Point, $30 (0-86547-661-6). 635.9.
Daisies may be delightful and carnations as charming as they come, but it's hard to imagine either of them inspiring volumes of rhapsodic prose extolling their virtues. This, it seems, is the exclusive purview of the rose, at least as far as Winterrowd is concerned, and he's brought together 32 distinguished gardeners and garden writers to honor their favorite rose in a captivating collection of essays, exquisitely complemented by Pamela Stagg's sumptuous ...
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