More than fifteen thousand rose species and cultivars are grown
worldwide. Every one of these plants has its own distinctive name,
given perhaps by the person who first picked it for a sweetheart, a
botanist who dissected it long ago or a horticulturist who nurtured
it. Douglas Brenner and Stephen Sanniello tackle the thorny task of
digging up the history behind rose names. Their stores are filled
with enough romance, tragedy, mystery and scandal to satisfy even
those who would never dream of actually tending a plant. For
instance, did you know the gallica rose's perfume wafted through
Pliny's Roman villa and lulled Marie Antoinette on the night before
her wedding, or that roses in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
were mainly raised for medicinal purposes? With ornate vintage art
and photographs, "A Rose by Any Name" unearths the roots or rose
lore and reveals how people, communities and cultures across the
globe and throughout the ages have identified the living things
that matter to them most.
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