The Rose Annual 1949

190pp, with 17 monochrome plate illustrations and four in colour. In green cloth-covered boards with gilt titled and decorations front and spine. Original marker, with the Rose Society logo and verse, bound in. 8vo. Cloth a little worn and marked, bumped on lower leading corner. Spine sunned and compressed. Hint of toning to endpapers, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Contains details and transactions of the National Rose Society for 1949, together with a series of articles on roses and their cultivation. Articles include Public Rose Gardens, Cardiff by W Nelmes; Wartime in a Normandy Garden by Murray Hornibrook; Understocks for Roses by G M Taylor; Roses in Germany; Designs for Small Rose Gardens; Control of Rose Pests; Pruning Neglected Roses; Registration of Rose Names; Rose Analysis etc. Stunning colour plates of rose varieties including Signora, Charles Mallerin and Lady Belpher. Book produced to War Economy Standard.