Rose Hybridizers Association Forum

That lone hip sure looks like a canina after winter. My bushes, seedlings all, vary in thorniness, but generally more than you seem to show. But the reddish stems and buds swelling now is characteristic. Could these have been rootstock? My material came from a huge old bush in PA which was ID'd deca...

How many seeds did you get per hip? That will tell you something of the compatibility of the two parents. More is better obviously but but the potential # is set by DE. A low # indicates a poor match which might yield a seed that is inviable after partial development. So the hips may contain only em...

About that caninae meiosis as observed with R. pomifera. Some years back I got a seedling for that triploid R pom from David Z. Looks like about 10 yr ago as I had a plant big enough to pollinate in 2010. Crosses have worked apparently both ways but I'm always suspicious of R pom as female parent wh...

Update on my earlier post (pg 2 of this series). Those first germinations have yielded some flowers. One of interest is a yellow, looking very like #1100 in coloring and petalage. The mother is New Dawn x yellow mini which has a different flower shape and a more pink coloration. Another rather doubl...

On the same page with Pretty Polly series, which look like great roses, there is a bright red by Julie Overom. Has anyone up north (WI, MN etc) seen Cherry Frost in action during its limited distribution last year? Or during earlier testing phase? Seems like it is a much bigger bush than the Polly s...

Very interesting study, but I think there's a flaw in the recipe for Nessler's reagent. Iodine and KI are not that soluble in water as specified. In addition, it contains so much mercury that on one would dare try to use it today. With modern flow injection analysis there would be no need anyway. Be...

I regret that since the fire we have had to cancel about $1 million worth of subscriptions, with a freeze on new acquisitions for this year. SO no luck. WE have the other six symposia (maybe) but they are not retrievable until the library reopens next year.

I wish I had more than anecdotes on flower timing. But as an example, I have a once-flowering hybrid of something I called Pink Single which was Carefree Beauty x Rise N Shine. Using pollen of an interesting seedling from David Zlesak (nominally triploid R. pomifera) I got a dwarf plant looking for ...

I'm sure there is a wide range of hardiness in some species of roses, but I don't know how much in which. It is well known in in the nursery trade that CV of dogwood or redbud that are grown down south and shipped all round the U.S. via bigbox stores often are not hardy. But I sent redbud seedlings ...

In the category of sweeping generalizations consider the following. Cold-hardiness is probably for many purposes a quantitative trait. That is, it takes a considerable number of genes. So when you cross two roses of different hardiness categories, you ought to get something about halfway in between,...

That article about Risley is very interesting. However, I notice one quirk. American Pillar #84 which I bought many years ago as Golden ARctic (#84) was definitely yellow, not pink. It is parent of my Arctic Sunrise and was quite hardy here to -10 to -20. So i don't know if the naming was changed wh...

I had Sir Thomas L. for years. Beautiful white double flowers on a rugosa-type but glossyish foliage. Sterile as a steer. My recollection was much like what Greenman shows on HMF, no trace of pink color, maybe a little green. No clue on actual winterhardiness up your way. Fine here but we've not had...

Very interesting idea. Any clue what concentration? And would it have to be pure CaCl2 or would a commercial salt replacement (icemelt product) work? Will this work be published perhaps in a hort jnl?

Looks like an improved Masquerade or Circus. That seems to have real potential.

I've never used charcoal. Was this pure stuff purchased as such, or left over from a fireplace? Charcoal from trees burned, is full of potash as the hydroxide, like oven cleaner. Pure activated charcoal is supposed to be neutral. Crushed charcoal briquets have a lot of binding agents in them. I neve...

I still have Crimson Glory, Iceberg, Mr. Lincoln, Carrousel, Impatient, Frau Karl Druschki hanging on with no spray last couple years, minimal prior couple years. They've been here 40 yr or so and I'm not feeling like digging them out. But they're not worth collecting pollen, IMO. I've used them one...

The NDxymin that I mentioned above might be considered a climber but probably not. The original plant, totally neglected for a couple decades, gets about a ft long, sort of along the ground in very poor dry place with too much shade. The 5 or 6 that I grow in pots reach around a yard high because I ...

Usually I don't discuss germinations because so often I find nothing worth talking about at bloom time, or disease testing time in the next summer. But today I planted out 4 dozen seedlings that had sprouted in their stratification mix (vemiculite-calcium nitrate) after about 4-5 mo in the frig. The...

Unfortunately I don't know of any good simple explanations for flower color in a complex mix of polyploids such as most roses. I think you have to make tables of empirical observations and go from there. For sure it is not simple Mendelian inheritance, although that would allow for some examples cit...

Karl, Could that rambler type be something sold as climbing American Beauty? Jim Urban (Microbiology) had a huge bush on the back of his house and garage on 17th St just south of Alice Stockwell's place (She was a realtor for maybe 50 years.). I got cuttings from him and it has survived in semi-wood...