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Rose and Gardens in the early 20th Century Conference

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

HELP US FIND MISSING NEWSLETTERS

The Foundation needs your help to complete our archive of Newsletters.  Please check your issues to see if you can help.  Missing from the collection:

1992 January #1

1993 January #1, July #3, October #4

1994 April #2

1995 October #4

1996 July #3

1997 July #3

Send originals or photocopies to Betty Vickers, Heritage Rose Foundation,  802 Red Bud Drive, DeSoto, TX  75115.


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Roses and Gardens in the early 20th Century - A Conference at Hearst Castle® sponsored by the Heritage Rose Foundation

Thursday April 17^th, 2008, 5pm to 8pm
Friday April 18^th, 2008, 9 am to 6 pm
 
Hearst Castle and the Hearst Castle Visitor Center
San Simeon, California 

questions?


Courtesy Hearst Castle®/California State Parks

Sunset over the Pacific, April 17
Hearst Castle’s horticulturist Christine Takahashi leads a tour of the gardens and the newly replanted 1930s tree roses. Sunset reception overlooking the Neptune pool.

Roses & Gardens in the Early 20th Century, April 18

Victoria Kastner author and historian–Julia Morgan, William Randolph Hearst and the Gardens of San Simeon

Burling Leong propagator of Sequoia Nursery–Creating Historic Replicas of Standard Roses

Fabien Ducher nurseryman of Lyon, France– A Family of Rose Breeders, from Jean-Claude Ducher to Joseph Pernet-Ducher

Étienne Bouret HRF trustee and member of the Friends of Rosarie de l’Haÿ-les-Roses–Tree Roses and other Rose Topiaries in Early 20th Century French Gardens

Jocelen Janon photographer and creator of the old rose Web site, Rosarosam–The Nabonnands and Their Roses—Turn-of-the-Century Tea Roses

For more details and photos as appearing in recent issue of Rosa Mundi, please see this pdf document: RM7_conference.pdf

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$185. HRF member attendance 
$210. HRF nonmember attendance
(this includes a year's membership in HRF and the Thursday PM garden tour and reception) 

$10 optional wine at Sunset reception, April 17^th

$55 Un-registered guest attendance at the Thursday PM garden tour and reception, overlooking the Neptune pool at sunset. (For un-registered companions of attendees at the conference—spaces limited.)
 
$15 requested donation to the HRF scholarship fund 

$20 Hearst Castle special tour ‘The Art of the Garden’. An HRF exclusive tour of the art and artifacts of the gardens at Hearst Castle
THIS TOUR IS SOLD OUT
Saturday, April 19^th, 10 am to 11:30 am 

$30 A walking tour of Monterey Adobe gardens with Frances Grate, with lunch in Frances Grate’s garden in Pacific Grove.
THIS TOUR IS SOLD OUT
2 Tours: 10 am and 2 pm
Lunch from 12 noon to 1:30 pm.
Sunday, April 20^th, 2008.

Two other optional garden tours are planned for
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
At Rancho Camulos in Ventura, County,
And at the Huntington Library and Botanic Gardens near Pasadena
See below for information on these; please note that these are not coordinated through the HRF.

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Additional information and opportunities:

How to get there, where to stay, what to do on the beautiful Central Coast of California, Sunday Garden tours. Please see this pdf document:
Hearst Hotels Sights LocationREV6.pdf

More Reserved Hotel Rooms

More information about the Hearst Castle®. Please see this pdf document:
HearstBrochure PDFlayout.pdf

The floral legacy of the Empress Joséphine is celebrated in an exhibition of rare rose books opening Feb. 9 at The Huntington. Please see this pdf document:
Huntington Rose Exhibit.pdf

The Gold Coast Heritage Roses Group has arranged a tour of Rancho Camulos on Sunday, April 20, 2007, at 11 a.m. Conference attendees are welcome to join in the tour. Please see this pdf document:
RANCHO CAMULOS.pdf

Contact Carolyn Sanders at sanders_carolyn@earthlink.net for questions about registration and other matters

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.