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'Dr. E. Mills' rose Reviews & Comments
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Available from Burlington Nursery in her 2015 rose list.
Cynthia
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Does it have the same fragrance type as R. hugo., R. primula, Golden Wings, R. bansia lutescens, etc.?
I dont know how to describe the scent type, but they all smell the same.
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#1 of 5 posted
7 MAY 14 by
 Jay-Jay
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Some say linseed-oil fragrance.
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So, yeah, thats in line with most persian briar types and rosa banksia lutescens.
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It has elements of that chemical smell, but also sweetness to it. I'm well familiar with linseed scent from both Foetida and Fedtschenkoana. This didn't have much of that to it, but it did have a chemical type undertone. It was actually a very pleasant scent.
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#4 of 5 posted
12 MAY 14 by
Jay-Jay
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I'll take a sniff myself, when the flowers open.
The last days it was pooring with rain. No opened flowers.
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Mine opened with some heat which I am certain altered scent elements. Unless your temps were in the mid seventies F or higher, your perception of the scent is likely to be rather different.
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This is a very healthy rose, nice lightgreen foliage with a lot of leaflets (varies) and cold hardy.
It is shade tolerant, drought resistant and still relatively vigorous for a young plant.
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This rose grows in a public garden in Sweden. I would imagine it would be an interesting source of yellow with which to breed very cold hardy roses.
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Kim
Dr. E.M. Mills was grown at many of the Canadian Prairie Experimental Farms as a test rose in the 1970's. I suspect it wasn't quite hardy in our zone 3 climate as I have been unable to locate it. I'll keep looking.
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#2 of 3 posted
4 AUG 11 by
Jay-Jay
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Kim, today Marnix brought this rose to me from De Bierkreek. Who knows what it will bring with its genes.
The plant has a little bit the appearance of Your 1-72-1X R. hugonis.
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Hi Jay Jay, congratulations! I've still never seen the plant in person. I can well imagine it would resemble 1-72-1Hugonis as they share the common ancestor, presuming, of course, that what I have IS Hugonis. To me, it does resemble it, however there are those who doubt the identity. When so many "species" have been spread around by seed, and with how variable many of them are, who can really tell without DNA testing. I'm happy you finally have one. Dr. Mills needs to be spread around far and wide to prevent his loss. Having the one plant in one garden in the world is far too close to extinction. I'm very happy Hans was able to procure it and get it to propagate. Thank you! Kim
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