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4 years ago

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Hi everyone,

Do you guys keep old garden catalogs for reference? I have Pickering, Ashdown, Roses of Yesterday & Today and Heirloom roses. I also have old issues of Fine Gardening, Horticulture magazine, Gardens Illustrated, Heronswood catalogs and others. Just doing some very late Spring cleaning.

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Lilyfinch z9a Murrieta Ca
4 years ago
That’s wonderful that you have so many to look back on ! I always kept my David Austin ones , they are so beautiful. I had an heirloom or two as well somewhere. Of course then it makes me miss the old selection and prices ! lol
alameda/zone 8/East Texas
4 years ago
I had kept a bunch, but lost them in a house fire years ago - still have some Antique Rose Emporium, David Austin, Heirloom ones. Enjoy browsing through them. I am going to redo a storage building, add heating/AC and build shelves and plan to display all my issues of Country Gardens, rose catalogs, and have them where I can easily look at them - one of these days!
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I recently became aware of the existence of the Gutenberg Project, which converts books in the public domain into e-book format and makes them available free to whoever wishes to download them. Part of the raison d'etre of the project is to preserve rare books and make them widely available. Anyway, Project Gutenberg deals primarily or entirely with book-length works, or so I understand, but there might be other entities out there that would be interested in preserving these catalogs in electronic format. Who does research on roses? or rose history? and has a(n electronic) library? Those would be the folks to ask. If preservation isn't the primary issue, there are ways to keep nice--tempting, beautiful--rose catalogs in circulation. I used to take all my nifty old magazines that I thought were way too good to throw away and haul them on down to the local coffee shop, which was always glad to have fresh reading matter for its customers. Or one could donate them to the local library book sale. Melissa
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ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
4 years ago
I used to have quite a few of the old Roses of Yesterday & Today, which was from the time when I first became passionately interested in old roses. That was a whole different life in so many ways. Those are really the only catalogs I ever kept.
henry_kuska
4 years ago
Now that scanning is so easy and memory sticks are so inexpensive, I recommend saving them in digital form.
Vaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley
4 years ago
last modified: 4 years ago
I don't have that many so I save the ones I do. I especially like looking at the old Wayside ones as they used to carry some gorgeous roses. I also have a couple of very old DAs somewhere. for me it's way more satisfying to flip through a catalogue with a cup of tea and easier to compare pages. If I had many it might be different.

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