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Rosedango event in Texas
October 11, 2008

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Photos from Shreveport garden fall planting party

http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/ezine.php

The Ezine includes an "article" with posts collected from Gold Coast and other rose forums where Mel was an active participant. Each of you are invited to add to this article by clicking on the "article" A Tribute to Mel Hulse and then by clicking the COMMENTS tab above the article and adding your own tributes.

The Ezine also includes several articles written by friends sharing their special memories of Mel and some wonderful photos

Thanks to everyone who helped us find our missing newsletters! Betty Vickers informs me that we now have copies of all.


See the archive of the HRF Newsletters

FOR MORE DETAILS, DIRECTIONS, AND MAPS, VISIT:
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Seminar, Picnic, Garden Tour

Free Admission
DATE: Saturday, October 11, 2008 TIME: 8am to 12noon
WHERE: Heard-Craig Hall, 205 West Hunt St., McKinney, TX

RoseDango is an informative and exciting event where you will hear about and see for yourself all about the secrets of growing roses (VSPC).
Rosarians and all novice rose growers welcome.

You will be introduced to the results of:
Rose Rustlers--Texas Found Roses
A life long passion of rose hybridizing--Buck roses
Rigorous university study of best rose selections--Earthkind Roses
Preservation of varieties from antiquity--Heritage Roses
New hybridized varieties using the best of the past--Pioneer Roses


LUNCH AND GARDEN TOUR following seminars at Chambersville Heritage Rose Garden. Noon till dark..

You will be able to observe, touch and smell the roses discussed in these seminars by attending a picnic and strolling through the roses at Chambersville Heritage Rose Garden.

pdf brochure of event

www.RoseDango.com

A Generous Gift of Books purchase
Barbara Worl’s legacy to the Heritage Rose Foundation

The editors of Rosa Mundi are privileged to announce a major gift to the HRF from Barbara Worl of Menlo Park, California. Barbara has been a supporter of the goals of HRF since its beginning and a mentor to many in the old rose movement for the past thirty years. Her decision to turn her legacy from Sweetbriar Press, her small publishing company devoted to educating old rose lovers, over to the hands of HRF comes as no surprise to those who have benefited from her encouragement and support and been inspired by her love of the old roses.

Remaining in Sweetbriar Press’ inventory are a large number of copies of three publications: a facsimile edition of Beauties of the Rose by Henry Curtis, A Portfolio of Rose Hips painted by Southern California artist Jessie-Chizu Baer, and Barbara’s reprint of the 1959 Roses of Yesterday and Today catalogue by Will Tillotson. Copies of all three publications will be available to order this summer on the HRF website. We encourage you all to express your thanks to Barbara by obtaining one of these valuable resources.

Books may be ordered from this website starting August, 2007.

Our apologies to readers of Rosa Mundi for my delay in providing this information for the HRF website. We are still organizing the transfer of these books and their installation in a dedicated storage for the Foundation. Your patience is appreciated.

-Gregg Lowery

   

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Passion Can Move Mountains! by Étienne Bouret

from Rosa Mundi vol. 1, see entire article



     When Jules Gravereaux planted his first rose in the kitchen garden of his new property at l’Haÿ, just south of Paris, he did not know that just a few years later he would bring together all the known varieties of Rosa—more than 8,000 cultivars!
     The beginning of the nineteenth century was still a time of independent exploration, when an “amateur” could contribute to the body of scientific knowledge. But unlike botanists such as Crépin in Belgium who worked on herbaria, Gravereaux decided to collect living plants, initially by purchase, then by collecting during his study travels, exchanges with his correspondents abroad, and gifts from breeders and rosarians.
     With this collection, Gravereaux focused on the description and a new classification for the roses. To this end, he sorted the varieties, carefully labelled them in the garden, and created a single file in which he registered the synonyms and information about the habit, flowering, and hybridization experiments for each species or variety. In 1900, he published the first “Catalogue des roses cultivées a l’Haÿ” and in 1905 the “Manuel pour la description des rosiers.”
      To design the garden, Gravereaux asked Edouard André, an eminent landscape architect who worked with the Baron Haussmann and M. Alphand on the green spaces of Paris, to create a new style of garden devoted to just one plant: the Roseraie.