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"We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion."
Friedrich Hegel, 1770-1831
Please add these events to your calendar for April and come join us
in celebrating the Heritage Rose District of New York City

The Heritage Rose District of New York City is an all-volunteer effort, coordinated by the Manhattan Borough President’s Office as a means of reintroducing roses to the urban landscape of New York City through the establishment and/or restoration of planting beds and rose displays in public spaces at various locations throughout the neighborhoods of West Harlem and Washington Heights. Selection of the specific varieties of “heritage” roses for planting recalls the pivotal and historic role that New York City and its local citizens played over the centuries in breeding, cultivation, commerce and appreciation of America’s favorite flower, the rose.

 
Wednesday, April 21, 6:30-8:30
Lecture:
Return of Roses to Their Harlem Roots

HSNYThe spring meeting of the Manhattan Rose Society will feature a presentation and progress report on the Heritage Rose District of New York City. HRF President Stephen Scanniello, acclaimed author, garden designer, gardener and 2009 Great Rosarian of the World Honoree, will discuss the evolution of the project Heritage Rose District of New York City project, which is reintroducing varieties of roses that were grown in New York City in the 18th and 19th centuries.
At the HSNY Library; 148 West 37th Street, 13th Floor

Wine & Cheese Reception included; MRS and HSNY Members Free, Guests $10
RSVP to (516) 759-1435 or pshanley@aol.com
 
Thursday April 22nd, 8 pm
Benefit Earth Day Concert by NYC Outloud
“For the Beauty of the Earth”
At Church of the Intercession, 155th and Broadway
beauty.jpgAll are invited and welcome to attend this special evening of choral music to celebrate the Heritage Rose District of New York City. Proceeds will go to the Heritage Rose Foundation, solely to fund the Heritage Rose District. Voluntary donations will be accepted at the door. A donation of $20 per person attending is suggested.
 
NYC OUTLOUD is a men’s vocal ensemble that is dedicated to promoting tolerance and acceptance of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people in the New York area. Performances by the group are dedicated to raising funds not only for the LGBT community, but for the benefit of any not-for-profit organization in need that contributes to an improved society.
 
 
Saturday April 24th, All Day Planting Event, approximate start time 11-Noon
Earth Day Global Day of Service
Ceremony to Start at Harriet Tubman Memorial at 122nd and Green RoseFredrick Douglass Boulevard
Members of the local community will be joined by volunteers from neighborhoods across the country for the planting of more than 200 rose bushes in various locations throughout the Rose District. Open to the Public. Among the participants will be 5th graders from St. Aloysius Education Clinic in Harlem, members from the Black Woman’s Leadership Caucus, and students from Florida Southern CollegeRoses to be planted include the unusual “Green Rose” (photo left), tied in history and legend with the Underground Railroad.
 
 

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ABOUT THE HERITAGE ROSE FOUNDATION
HRFThe Heritage Rose Foundation is a nonprofit organization established in 1986, devoted to the preservation of old roses. Its mission is to preserve heritage roses and promote their culture; to establish gardens where these roses may be grown and displayed; to foster public knowledge and appreciation of heritage roses and their preservation.
For information, please contact Stephen Scanniello (President) at P. O. Box 831414, Richardson, TX 75083 or steprose@mac.com.
 

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Noisette Roses

19th Century Charleston's Gift to the World


 The Charleston Horticultural Society is pleased to announce the release of Noisette Roses - 19th Century Charleston’s Gift to the World,  their first publication and what is believed to be the first publication on Noisette Roses in America. The Noisette Rose was named after Philippe Noisette who was the first Director of the Charleston Botanical Society in 1808. It was developed by John Champneys on his plantation south of Charleston, near Ravenel, South Carolina. 

Edited by Virginia Kean, a writer, editor and producer based in Redwood City, California, this full color, first edition softback publication is 86 pages in length and printed on acid free paper.  
The Charleston Horticultural Society is deeply grateful to the Heritage Rose Foundation for a grant to underwrite a portion of the printing
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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

Birthday Greetings to Barbara Worl    




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Passion Can Move Mountains! by Étienne Bouret

from Rosa Mundi vol. 1, see entire article

Jean Girin

     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.














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