This month’s cover features an image of Rosa Gallica from Les Roses, created by Pierre Joseph Redonte and Claude-Antoinein Thory. The work is from the 1835 Troisième edition and provides a description and illustration of most of the important roses known at the time and are some of the key ancestors of present-day roses. The specimens included roses from the Malmison Gardens as well as other gardens around Paris.

Les Roses is the latest acquisition to the Louise B. Belsterling collection of antique botanical material at the Eugene McDermott Library at the University of Texas at Dallas.  The collection of more than 1,100 volumes is endowed by the Belsterling Foundation of the Dallas Garden Club, which supports horticultural education and botanical literature preservation. Learn more about the collection at https://library.utdallas.edu/special-collections-archives/louise-b-belsterling-botanical-library/.