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Isn't that wonderful!
Thanks Keith Money and thanks Jay-Jay
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5 APR 13 by
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You're welcome Billy.
I really wanted to share this tribute to old roses and the prose about a relatively new rose.
The book is sometimes a bit difficult to read, but often I can't help to twinkle about the way Keith Money describes roses or his look at the matter of growing roses and the way he stands in life.
His photos might be compared with the art of contemporary naturalist painters (like Henk Helmantel) and I would be honoured to have one of them hanging at the wall of my dining room, or just as the book suggests at my bedside.
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"the egg-crate era of architecture". Best descriiption of modernist cheap-***, tawdry misbegotten building, misnamed "development", I have ever seen. If that page is from a book by Mr. Money, I must have that book!
I presume the "Mr. Thomas" referred to would be Graham Thoma?. I know he choose the famous rose named after himself, but I did not know he named Constance Spry.
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5 APR 13 by
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The Bedside Book of Oldfashioned Roses is/was still available on Amazon.
Patricia Routley was so kind to draw my attention towards this book.
She also posted a comment/fragment at the book page.
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Re: "Mr. Thomas (who had a hand in naming her)....."
I understand Mr. Thomas, David Austin and Constance Spry knew each other well.
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abebooks is also a wonderful resource for 2nd-hand rose books.
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