James Shirley Hibberd (1825-90) was a journalist and writer on gardening, whose popular works had great influence on middle-class taste. This 1864 book on roses was particularly successful; Hibberd also wrote on floral arrangements, water gardens, ferneries and greenhouses in Rustic Adornments (1856), also reissued in this series.
James Shirley Hibberd helped shape fashions in gardening for middle-class Victorians; this work on roses was first published in 1864.