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Support
the preservation of the
Lowery-Robinson collection of old roses!
Your donation
to the Heritage Rose
Foundation, a non-profit, 501 (c)(3) organization, will be earmarked to
support
the current efforts of the Friends of Vintage Roses, a support
organization
working toward non-profit status in an effort to save this exceptional
treasure
house of old roses.
Mission
Statement of Friends of Vintage Roses
The
Friends of Vintage Roses exists to preserve and enhance the unique and
extensive collection of historic roses developed by Gregg Lowery and
Phillip
Robinson, to establish the collection in a garden, and to share the
collection
with other public rose preservation efforts, for the purpose of
educating the
public about the importance of the rose to human history, cultures,
technology
and science.
Nearly thirty years ago, Gregg Lowery and
Phillip Robinson began to amass an unparalleled collection of old
garden roses
on a 2.5
acre
lot in Sebastopol,
California.
Now the collection is threatened
with disappearing, and time is of the essence to save these old roses.
In order
to preserve the collection for future generations, a nonprofit
organization is
in the process of forming. This group is to be known as the Friends of
Vintage
Roses (FoVR). In the interim period between forming and receiving
nonprofit
status, the Friends of Vintage Roses has appealed to the Heritage Rose
Foundation to assist its effort by accepting tax-deductible donations
to help
save the Robinson-Lowery rose collection.
HRF will
establish a fund of your
donations to be passed on to the Friends of Vintage Roses as requested.
Rosarians
world-wide consider the
Robinson-Lowery collection of historic roses to be one of the most
complete collections
of old roses assembled anywhere. The collection brought international
attention
to the Pernetiana group of Hybrid Teas, a seminal historic rose group
of great
importance to rose history. It contains the most complete collections
of Hybrid
Perpetuals, Bourbons, Gallicas, Hybrid Chinas, Teas, Noisettes and
Chinas in North America.
For more information about
Friends of
Vintage Roses, you can contact Gregg Lowery at glowery@vintagegardens.com.
Donations
may be made by credit card here on the HRF website, or by sending a
check to
HRF. Be sure to add a note that you wish your donation to go to the
Friends of
Vintage Roses fund. Please send checks, made out to the Heritage Rose
Foundation, attention Treasurer, to:
Peggy
Rose Martin
Heritage Rose Foundation
P.O. Box 1719
Gonzales, LA
70707
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