The American Rose Society is the largest single-plant society in the United States. Founded in 1892, it is a non-profit educational organization which promotes the growth and appreciation of the national flower of the United States -- the Rose. The ARS provides rose assistance for home gardeners, sponsors local rose societies throughout the U.S. and serves as the international registrar for roses throughout the world. ARS headquarters is located in Shreveport, Louisiana, at the Gardens of the American Rose Center, the Society's 118-acre park -- the nation's largest private garden dedicated to roses. [From Roses of America, by Stephen Scanniello and Tania Bayard, p. 20:] During its early years, the American Rose Society was essentially a small association of commercial nurserymen. The man who transformed it into a dynamic organization of dedicated amateur as well as professional rose growers was J. Horace McFarland, president of the society from 1930-1932, who published the first American Rose Annual in 1916 and served as editor of the prestigious yearbook for nearly thirty years.
A comprehensive list of Roses and rose breeders: https://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/
Dr. Joseph Stayman (1817-1903).
The Stayman’s winesap apple was developed in 1866 and sold by nurseries from
1895. Dr. Stayman grew up in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and practiced medicine but eventually gave that up to instead pursue experimenting with the growing habits of fruits like apples and strawberries. He played an integral role in establishing the Kansas State Horticultural Society also in 1866, having left Pennsylvania several years earlier.In 1866 He left the practice of
medicine at an early age to specialize in horticultural research and
experimentation, developing numerous varieties of apples, strawberries, and grapes
inhis Kansas orchards. He experimented with
grafting fruit trees and at one time had an apple tree which bore sixteen
varieties, the result of multiple grafting. As a result of
forty years experience in growing apples in Kansas, Dr. Stayman recommended the
following as the four best varieties for the state: Stayman's Winesap, York
Imperial, Jonathan and White Pippin. Dr. Stayman studied the drawing of fruit varieties, and his
sketches were regarded as extremely precise. These sketches were given to the Smithsonian Institution. I have as yet not found an electronic link but other Malus illustrations can be found at the USDA Pomological illustrations
This book is the result of 30 years of research and seven years of editing. The lavishly illustrated hardcover set of seven volumes comprehensively documents all apple varieties that have appeared in publications in the United States and Canada through the year 2000.
- 16,350 varietal listings (descriptions, origins and histories) - 9,700 synonyms (other names the apples were known by in different locations) - 1,650 cited references (two centuries of pomological literature on apples) - 1,400 life-size watercolors (painted a century ago for color documentation)
This unprecedented compendium is the result of a collaborative effort between Daniel J. Bussey and Kent Whealy. For 30 years, whenever time allowed, Dan Bussey has searched countless libraries for everything published about apples during the last two centuries in the United States and Canada. Dan’s research has identified information about apples in 1,650 pomological publications, which he compiled into 16,350 varietal listings and 9,700 synonyms.
For the last seven years, Kent Whealy has been editing Dan’s extensive research and notes. The seven volumes that Kent designed include the most complete cataloging of the pomological literature on apples ever compiled. In addition, from 1886-1942 the USDA employed 21 artists to paint 7,584 watercolors of 38 families of fruits, including 3,820 apples. USDA’s Pomological Watercolor Collection provided documentation before colour photography existed and is a little known national treasure. Over 1,400 of these beautiful paintings are included as illustrations, in order to create an unprecedented identification tool for apple sleuths searching for lost varieties.
Apples documented in pomological publications, horticultural and pomological society proceedings, governmental and experiment station bulletins, and commercial nursery catalogs through the year 2000." "Historic watercolors from the archives of the National Agricultural Library, Special Collections."
Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award, 2018
7 volumes : color illustrations ; 28 cm
v. 1. A-B -- v. 2. C-F -- v. 3. G-K -- v. 4. L-N -- v. 5. O-R -- v. 6. S-V -- v. 7. W-Z
Prunus mexicana, commonly known as the Mexican plum, is a North American species of plum tree that can be found in the central United States and Northern Mexico.
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Prunus
References
ITIS Integrated Taxonomy Information System
Forest Trees of Texas: How to Know Them. Dinslaken: Anboco, 2016. Internet resource.https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52651/52651-h/52651-h.html
I love this precious little pink rose. It has seen many homes and produced many offspring.
Either an early miniature or a relative of the old R. chinensis minima, this little rose has been found across Central and South Texas. The very double, one inch wide rosy-pink blossoms are produced constantly on a petite bush that responds well to pruning. A slow starter in the spring, "Pink Buttons" makes a fine little border or pot plant by mid-summer and continues to look good through the fall.
Highway 290 Pink Buttons or Rosa chinensis minima is usually covered with very double, tiny pink 'button' blooms through out the growing season. The beautiful one-inch blooms have a decided lilac purple cast to them, turning darker as they age. The petite bush has been found by Texas Rose growers in both south and central Texas. It blooms later in the spring and all through the fall. Its diminutive size makes it a perfect candidate for a pot or small garden border. There is another miniature pink rose very similar to this called Little Pinkie.
Roses for Victorian and Queen Anne Styled Architecture
Inspiration
The front lawn of a typical Victorian or Queen Anne home was only broken by an occasional shade or ornamental tree. Clumps of shrubs were spaced periodically along the property line. Flowerbeds were intended to be viewed from windows, and planted with brilliantly colored annuals in the popular carpet bedding style. The centerpiece would be a circular bed of large subtropical plants castor bean in the center, followed by a ring of cannas.
Tahitian Sunset, hybrid tea rose Lawn as white as driven snow Cyprus black as e'er crow. Gloves as sweet as damask roses.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Romeo and Juliet
Chrysler Imperial, hybrid tea rose
At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.
Love's Labour's Lost
Pink Peace, hybrid tea rose
Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell
Of different flowers in odour and in hue
Could make me any summer's story tell,
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew;
Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,
Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;
They were but sweet, but figures of delight,
Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.
Sonnet 98
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine: There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight. A Midsummer Night's Dream
Pope John Paul II, hybrid tea rose
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odour which doth in it live.
Sonnet 54
'Drop Dead Red' Rose Floribunda.
'Joseph’s Coat' Rose
'Julia Child' Floribunda yellow rose
What is a floribunda rose?
When looking up the word Floribunda in the dictionary you will find something such as this: New Latin, feminine of floribundus — flowering freely. Just as the name suggests, the floribunda rose is a beautiful bloom machine. She loves to bloom with clusters of beautiful blooms with several of her blooms in flower at one time. These wonderful rose bushes can put forth blooms that are much like those of the hybrid tea or can have flat or cup shaped blooms. The floribunda rose bushes make marvelous landscape plantings due to their typically lower and bushy form — and she loves to cover herself with clusters or sprays of blooms. Floribunda rose bushes are typically easier to care for as well as being very hardy. Floribundas are very popular largely because they seem to be continually in bloom during the season versus the hybrid tea, which blooms in cycles that spread out the periods of being in bloom by about six weeks. The floribunda rose bushes came about by crossing polyantha roses with hybrid tea rose bushes. Some of my favorite floribunda rose bushes are:
The polyantha rose bushes are usually smaller rose bushes than the floribunda rose bushes but are sturdy plants overall. The polyantha roses bloom in large clusters of small 1-inch (2.5 cm.) diameter blooms. The polyantha rose bushes are one of the parents of the floribunda rose bushes. The polyantha rose bush’s creation dates back to 1875 – France (bred in 1873 – France), the first bush being named Paquerette, which has beautiful clusters of white blooms. The polyantha rose bushes were born from the crossing of wild roses. One series of polyantha rose bushes features the names of the Seven Dwarfs. They are: Grumpy Rose (medium pink cluster blooms) Bashful Rose (pink blend cluster blooms) Doc Rose (medium pink cluster blooms) Sneezy Rose (deep pink to light red cluster blooms) Sleepy Rose (medium pink cluster blooms) Dopey Rose (medium red cluster blooms) Happy Rose (a truly cheery medium red cluster blooms) The Seven Dwarfs polyantha roses were introduced in 1954, 1955, and 1956. Some of my favorite polyantha rose bushes are: Margo’s Baby Rose The Fairy Rose China Doll Rose Cecile Brunner Rose Some of these are available as polyantha climbing rose bushes as well.
The American Rose Society is the largest single-plant society in the United States. Founded in 1892, it is a non-profit educational organization which promotes the growth and appreciation of the national flower of the United States -- the Rose. The ARS provides rose assistance for home gardeners, sponsors local rose societies throughout the U.S. and serves as the international registrar for roses throughout the world. ARS headquarters is located in Shreveport, Louisiana, at the Gardens of the American Rose Center, the Society's 118-acre park -- the nation's largest private garden dedicated to roses. [From Roses of America, by Stephen Scanniello and Tania Bayard, p. 20:] During its early years, the American Rose Society was essentially a small association of commercial nurserymen. The man who transformed it into a dynamic organization of dedicated amateur as well as professional rose growers was J. Horace McFarland, president of the society from 1930-1932, who published the first American Rose Annual in 1916 and served as editor of the prestigious yearbook for nearly thirty years.
A comprehensive list of Roses and rose breeders: https://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/
