Our Labour of Love - offered by Crenagh and David Elliott

In 1985 we were given copies of the Royal National Rose Society's 'The Rose Annual' and through our membership in the Royal National Rose Society and with further donated copies of 'The Rose' had copies from 1954 to the most recent by 2000. In 2001 we realized that indexing of these was required so we could more easily access information, most especially illustrations. This started the project. Later though the assistance of Heiko Miles of Calendula Books, Vancouver, Washington, USA; we were able to acquire copies of 'The Rose Annual from 1910 to 1953. This has given us a complete set from 1910 to the present time; we are only missing copies for 1907, 1908, and 1909 which were not produced as bound volumes.

We decided to create two computer databases in Microsoft Excel, one covering the articles and the other the Illustrations. After years of work we now have a nearly complete database. We realized this information is of value to more rose enthusiasts than ourselves, hence we make it available to others.

Contact Email:
theelliotts@shaw.ca