Each table is decorated with fresh flowers, old-fashioned antique roses when in season.

Over 25 years ago a group called the Rose Rustlers, also based in Texas, began taking cuttings from them in an effort to locate and resurrect various varieties of antique roses.

The rose garden also includes three pergolas of climbing roses and 10 beds of antique roses, "the most recent being 1867 when the first hybrid tea was created in France," he said.

If, 20 years from now, I'm not pruning my own antique roses and baking a cobbler with peaches from my own tree, what will I do with all that free time?

They also grow antique roses.

At two p.m. the man walked the property with Michael for half an hour, pointing out the giant camellias and azaleas, the bridal wreath and the antique roses, all of which could be saved.

The antique roses were gone and the garden in that painting was gone, too.

The first path leads to a rectangular area with separate sections for housing the various roses both antique and modern.

The history of the American steam locomotive was one of Jefferson's two private passions; the other was the cultivation of antique roses.

A charming book-length essay on antique roses, from ancient Rome to Tombstone, Ariz., and on the obsessional characters who hunt and love them, by one of their number.