The Full Title is:
EVERBLOOMING ROSES
For The Out-door Garden of the Amateur

THEIR CULTURE, HABITS, DESCRIPTION, CARE, NATIVITY, PARENTAGE
With Authentic Guides To The Selection Of Everblooming Varieties of Roses

by
Georgia Torrey Drennan

Pub. date, 1912, N.Y., Duffield & Co.

There are very few copies of this book still in existence -- I suppose in the first place there probably weren't that many printed, and it's been since 1912.
I looked for a copy for YEARS, and when I found one, I rapidly snarfed it up. It's not only a great text on warm-climate roses -- it was written by someone for whom they were the roses of her present.

Anyhow -- I just heard from Bob Edberg (Limberlost Rose Books). He said, he has a copy in really great condition, and he will sell it (Did He say $60.?) I told him he could get more, but he said he probably could, but thinks you shouldn't try to squeeze out every possible dime.)

You can email to him at:
bob@oldroses.com

Go for it!

Drennan herself was an interesting woman, with a fascinating life story. She was a Mississippi River Plantation Belle, who grew up with roses. Her husband commanded the defence of Vickburg, for the Army of the Confederacy, and his letters to his wife from that post comprise the best history of that important civil war action.
After the war, her husband became a judge -- and they eventually re-located to New Orleans. Seems his status as a Hero of the Confederacy didn't help his relations with his peers, when he dealt fairly with people they scorned.

Drennan's descendants still live in New Orleans -- or at least, they did before Hurricane Katrina.

Jeri

The City here pays people to spray it, so it can flow into creeks, and on, into the ocean.

:-(

Jeri

Jeri

Cydney
"Preserving History One Rose at a Time"

Cydney -- that was a great Xmas present!

Jeri