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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 - 19^th 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

   

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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.