You pretty much can't go wrong with any of them, Susan, but if you are interested in reading contemporary descriptions of older rose types, these should provide you with some real meat. We frequently read of an HP or other more modern, OGR and it sounds too wonderful to be lost. Read what those who handled them when they were current, before they had the opportunity to be confused with anything else and before they were deemed synonymous, and you can discover quite a bit. These have some very interesting lists, in the order shown from Henry's original link. You'll quickly develop the feel that many of them were so very similar because they were often self seedlings, and too often, inferior to the seed parent. You may generate something rather interesting and worthwhile from the first "selfing", but how many generations of that can be tolerated before the results are too inbred? The "How to Grow Roses" by Robert Pyle are fun looks at rose growing in the first decade of the last century. Captain Thomas has a book there, too and he is always instructive and interesting. Kim 21. The rose amateur's guide : containing ample descriptions of all the fine leading varieties of roses regularly classed in their respective families, their history and mode of culture / by T. Rivers, Jun. By: Rivers, Thomas, Edition: 3rd ed., corr. and improved. Publication info: London :Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans,1843. Contributed by: University of California Libraries (archive.org) 22. The rose manual; containing accurate descriptions of all the finest varieties of roses, properly classed in their respective families, their character and mode of culture, with directions for their propagation, and th By Robert Buist. By: Buist, Robert, Edition: 3d ed., with additions. Publication info: Philadelphia,The author [etc.]1851. Contributed by: UMass Amherst Libraries (archive.org) 37. The rose, historical and descriptive; gathered from various sources. By: Shaw, Henry, Publication info: Saint Louis,R. P. Studley & co., printers,1879. Contributed by: Library of Congress (archive.org) 41. The amateur's guide and flower-garden directory: containing every requisite detail for the successful cultivation of the flower-garden. Embracing the classification of the best varieties of roses, and all plants requisite for the garden with direct By: Clark, John T. C. Publication info: Washington, D. C.,Taylor & Maury[1856.] Contributed by: Cornell University Library 43. The American rose culturist : being a practical treatise on the propagation, cultivation, and management of the rose in all seasons : with a list of choice and approved varieties, adapted to the climate of the United States : to w Publication info: New York :C.M. Saxton,1852. Series: Saxton's cottage and farm library Contributed by: Cornell University Library 47. The book of the rose. By: Foster-Melliar, Andrew, - Molyneux, Herbert Ernest, - Page-Roberts, F., Edition: 4th ed. ... Ed. by Rev. F. Page-Roberts ... and Herbert E. Molyneux ... Publication info: London, Macmillan and co., limited,1910. Contributed by: Cornell University Library 51. Cultural directions for the rose : with full descriptions of all the newest and best roses in cultivation, selections adapted to various circumstances and situations and a calender of operations to be performed each month throughout th by John Cranston. By: Cranston, John. Edition: 7th ed. rev. Publication info: London :H.M. Pollett,1888. Contributed by: Mertz Library, The New York Botanical Garde

I would have a hard time tossing the scanned slides also - but understand your space limitations. I have an Epson flatbed V200 scanner that I scan slides with. LOVE IT! Love it even more with my new computer that runs so much faster (didn't have any trouble with it working on the new Windows 7 OS either) My Epson is no longer available, but the V500 is pretty much the same unit. I looked up both the Epson and the Cano Scan on Amazon. Looks like both will scan 4 slides at once. I have done large batches (hundreds - not thousands though). It take a while, but if you leave a stack, and just swap them out while you are on the computer, you can get a lot done! I like reading the reviews on Amazon - gives great reviews from people that have actually used the unit. Both the Epson and the Canon have lots of reviews. Price is very similar. I like the Epson flat bed personally. You can scan documents or photos. I find it super handy just to copy a paper when needed. It is NOT an all in one. Just a flat bed scanner. But if I need a copy of a paper, I can just hit "copy" and it will scan and send it to my printer. I scan at 600dpi - which is plenty. Unless you are going to print somthing wall size, you don't need to use the super high settings. It will just make a huge file and take a long time to scan. Make sure you have a couple back up sources for you scans if you are going to dispose of the slides. DVD's can go bad - hard drive fail... I would use at least 2 different backup methods. Here is a scan from a slide from the late 40's or early '50's. Slide had dust and a few scratches.....

Might look at the link below... if your scanner software shows it.. apply a little sharping too. Now lets compare the resolutions from the chart above to a film scan. The chart below lists the resulting output resolution of a standard 35mm slide or negative. If you compare a 2000 DPI film scan to the output resolutions of TVs and computer monitors you'll see that a 2000 DPI film scan is more than sufficient for viewing on your computer or television. Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.digitalmemoriesonline.net/scan/scan_processing/resolving_scanning_resolution.htm

I am from the era that took only 35mm slides. This would have been from about 1960 to 1980. I too have boxes and boxes of slides. I considered getting a scanner that would convert the slides to jpgs, but I found out that Wal-Mart would do the job a lot cheaper than what a new scanner would cost me. I took them a box of them and they scanned them and put them on a CD for me. One thing, most had to be rotated or flipped. They just scanned then without paying any attention to how they would come out. However, that was easy for me to straighten out. I think they did a couple of hundred slides and the cost was less than $5.00.