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     ann peck (Anntn6b) Bug Squisher Username: anntn6b Post Number: 289 Registered: 01-2006 |
Barely on topic. I just got a copy of Morrison's "J. Horace McFarland-A thorn for beauty" and mentioned in there is McFarland's being instrumental in preparing a shipment of American bred roses to Haile Selassie on the occasion of Selassie's coronation; that shipment of 437 plants included 62 roses. The book also includes a detailed photo of McFarland with a blooming R. primula which was first to bloom at Breeze Hill. I wonder if he sent a primula in that shipment? I also wonder if a list of the shipped roses exists. | ||
| Malcolm M Manners (Mmanners) Bug Squisher Username: Mmanners Post Number: 110 Registered: 10-2004 |
Anne, Yes, I looked for old hips with seeds and found none (eaten by goats???). I also failed to check the source of fragrance; drat! Stephen, yes, certainly "resemblance" to the musks, as is true with brunonii, etc. But not the same fragrance qualitatively, nor quite the same leaves. It's surely in that "group." I head home tonight, arriving Monday night, 37 hours later. Yucko! | ||
| stephen scanniello (Steprose) Supreme Crown Gall ! Username: steprose Post Number: 988 Registered: 01-2006 |
very cool Malcolm. do you see anything that might resemble R. moschata? stephen | ||
| ann peck (Anntn6b) Bug Squisher Username: anntn6b Post Number: 288 Registered: 01-2006 |
Malcolm, Wow. First question. Is the scent in the petals or in the anthers/stamen? Any Petaloids? Any seeds left over from last year? (Somehow I think you've looked). I do have some of the images from Aluka on a disc in my copied files glut of info from the library internet last year. I'll try to find them. Jeffrey, From what I've found, the only way for mere mortals to get into the search engines is to find a state supported library that subscribes. Most (my) state supported library has computers for the general public (Tax payers) and even though the computers dedicated to the taxpayers aren't as good as the ones in the library for the students (who do pay a hefty computer fee each year) there is access there. Also there is the resource that I am coming to use more and more. Good librarians. Who no longer just shelve books, but who are information specialists and who will go out of their way to help me get articles that are not easily found or are rare. I've found one ILL person who is not of this ilk, but the others are really great at digging up references and getting them to me. It takes a little while to get to know them, but well worth the effort. | ||
| Malcolm M Manners (Mmanners) Bug Squisher Username: Mmanners Post Number: 109 Registered: 10-2004 |
Speaking of African roses! I'm in Ethiopia at the moment (USAID-funded volunteer consulting trip to Bako-Tibe, Oromia Region, to work with mango growers). Two days ago, I saw wild roses along the road, a few miles west of Ambo, maybe 50 miles west of Addis Ababa. So we stopped to photograph them. I think they must be R. abyssinica, but am not certain. I've posted photos at my Flicker.com account (username mmmavocado). Would be interested in your comments, if you know this species. A direct link is http://www.flickr.com/photos/10239508@N07/sets/72157603635337524/ Be sure the entire link gets copied, all the way out to the 524/. If that doesn't work, you could just go to flickr.com and look for my username, then the set "Rosa abyssinica?" Flicker may or may not force you to join first, but if so, it's free and easy. Malcolm | ||
| Jeffrey Parnell (Gerome) Powdery Mildew Username: Gerome Post Number: 16 Registered: 10-2006 |
Is there any way our group could qualify to access this site? | ||
| ann peck (Anntn6b) Bug Squisher Username: anntn6b Post Number: 270 Registered: 01-2006 |
JSTOR has a new affiliated website called aluka which is an academic aid to African studies. Access to aluka is free, through 31 Dec 2007 to institutions that subscribe to JSTOR. The page linked below has a link to African Plants, and that link will lead you with a few clicks to Genus Rosa and photocopies of roses from Africa that are currently in a number of Herbaria. http://www.aluka.org/?cookieSet=1 |