"44 color photographs and more than 100 halftones and drawings" -- front cover.

Part I. Roses in your garden: where and how to use them - Introduction: Hail to the Queen! - 1. The Rose-Whence and Whither? - 2. Roses and the home landscape - 3. Environment; laying out the rose garden -- Part II. Culture of the rose - 4. The soil and its preparation - 5. The rose plant - 6. Planting - 7. Feeding - 8. Watering and mulching - 9. Pruning - 10. Winter protection - 11. Supports and training - 12. Roses in pots - 13. Rose troubles: pests, diseases, malnutritions - 14. Propagation - 15. Hybridizing: creating your own own new roses - 16. Rose shows and showing roses - 17. Calendar of operations, with regional notes -- Part III. Rose types and varieties - 18. Old roses: species, species hybrids, and shrub roses - 19.Garden roses: hybrid teas, floribundas, grandifloras, polyanthus, hybrid perpetuals - 20. Climbers and creepers - 21. Miniature roses - 22. Roses for arrangement and arranging roses - 23. Potpourris, jams, and jellies - 24. The rose grower's rose finder.

"A practical guide to the uses, selection, planting, care, exhibition, and propagation of roses of all types, with one hundred and forty-six photographs (forty-four in color) and thirty line drawings" -- title page.