Of the books you show I'd most like to own and peruse the oldest one, but of course that speaks to my love of the old roses. What can I say, they really don't make them any better than that.

What is really neat is that the author of the 1906 book refers to doctor Huey, not as a rose, but as the person.

Brandon - thank you for the very illuminating video, as usual. If I lived in the Pacific NW, I would immediately purchase the book which is about growing roses in that area. I have discovered over the years, in my garden and reading posts on here, that all rose growing advice should ONLY be paid attention to if it is local to where you garden, or in a very similar climate (hi/low temps each season, humidity or dryness, local soil conditions, fungal exposure, etc). I did not know that when I started, and believed the general rose advice which was then published in various books (mostly from the UK or East Coast of the US) by rose experts. The problem was that most of it was not correct for my growing conditions. I ended up by trial and error (many) gaining some knowledge about which roses would thrive in my conditions. Of course, those turned out to be exactly the same types of roses which had survived for decades in our garden and were still here when we moved in. So, I am very strongly prejudiced towards "location" rose books. Now most of the roses in my garden are either clones of the ancient ones we inherited, or are roses of the same classes. All are happy here.

Jackie