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"Ping Dong Yue Ji" rose Reviews & Comments
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22 JAN 21 by
flodur
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From whome came the information: This rose was given to a family in Taiwan by a Japanese businessman..... The link you show leeds to S'Orrosa, but there is no info at all, just 2 photos!
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14 FEB 21 by
 jedmar
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Here is a comment by member roseseek from May 2011: "Jack Lin reports: My friend, Kun Wang, found a rose grew in a family garden four or five summers ago in Ping Dong County, Taiwan. He noticed that specimen was a special old fashion rose. He got a permission to have some cuttings for propagations, but he forgot to take the photos of the mother plant. I wished he did that. He gave it a study name "Ping Dong Yue Ji", 'Yue Ji' means monthly.
He asked the house owner, an elder lady about the name of that rose and where it came from. She did not remember the name, but She remembered when she was a child (70 plus years ago), it was given by a Japanese businessman as a gift for her family. After Wang found that rose, someone also found another two of the same, but those two were bulldozed couple years ago due to road construction project.
So, the name means the "Monthly rose of Ping Dong County". You may find some of the other comments interesting.
Member Jack L posted on 30 Sep 2009: "Couple days ago I posted a found rose thread (below) in HRF for ID. The rose was found 5 summers ago in a home garden in Ping dong County, Taiwan. It was given a study name "ping dong Yue Ji".The property owner could not rememberthe name of the rose, but she remembered the plant was given by a Japanese bussinessman as a gift to her family 70 years ago."
Another statement by farmerduck NJ Z6b in Houzz from 2013: "Ping Dong Yue Ji" means "(Monthly) Rose from Ping Dong." There are a number of places called "Ping Dong," and my guess -- or rather pure speculation -- is that likely the rose is discovered in Ping Dong County in Taiwan or Ping Dong City in southern China's Fujian province. These are the two more well known Ping Dong counties.
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6 APR 19 by
styrax
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My best guess to the name's meaning is 屏東月季 (Píngdōng yuèjì in Mandarin pinyin) 屏東 is a city in the Republic of China, anglicized as Pingtung and 月季 is the term for Rosa sinensis: interestingly, the first character, yuè, is moon or month and the second (jì) is season or quarter-year, as well as a last name. A good translation would be just "Pingtung"
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25 FEB 16 by
alex.m.
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Do you know what "Ping Dong" mean?
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Entering "Ping Dong" into Google Translate provides Pingtung, a county in Taiwan. Therefore a loose translation of the name should be "The monthly flowering rose of Pingtung, Taiwan".
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Having grown both, I found this rose to be identical to "Mother Dudley" -- another Found Rose, this one from Florida. See Rose Petals Nursery.
I also felt it was identical to 'Cels Multiflora' which I have seen, but not grown.
Both Mother Dudley and Ping Dong mildewed badly, most of the time, in my SoCal coastal climate. (Both are gone.)
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Thank you Jeri. We've added "Mother Dudley" as a synonym fpr 'Ping dong Yue Ji'.
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Thanks Patricia ... And, FWIW, there's a nice little story connected with "Mother Dudley". It might be nice to get that from Cydney, at Rose Petals Nursery, in FL. It comes from this State Historic Park:
https://www.floridastateparks.org/park-history/Dudley-Farm
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I've had a look at the website but couldn't find anything on the rose.
I've added the Rose Petals Nursery reference but I feel it is not that "nice little story" you mention.
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OK. Here's how I remember it. ... The family established that farm in the 1800's and prospered. The matriarch of the family, "Mother Dudley", lived to a ripe old age, and when she was dying, she told her children that she had one last wish . . .
. . . that they would help her out to the garden, so that she could see her favorite rose bush, and smell the blooms one last time.
Of course, they did, and she smelled the rose again, and was happy. They then helped her back to her bed, where she promptly died.
(Cydney told it better!)
They have, I think two other roses, as well, from the Dudley Farm State Historic Park.
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Thanks Jeri. I had sent Cydney an email, but you are quick.
I can't help thinking that if those kids had picked a small vase of her favourite roses for her bedside table, she might have stayed with them a whole lot longer.
Hopefully Cydney might yet reply and tell us about the other two roses.
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Yeah, I had the same thought . . .
But, hell, maybe they really did . . . oral history gets a bit tweaked, sometimes.
I'll send Cydney a little note pushing her a bit. Let me know if you hear.
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Cydney has replied:
I apologize for not getting back to you more quickly. Jeri is correct that there is a nice little story that is connected to "Mother Dudley". The following is a true and accurate story as told to the park by Miss Myrtle Dudley the youngest of Mother's 12 children and who donated the Dudley Farm to the State of Florida. Mother's real name is Sarah F. Wynne Dudley, they called her Fanny. She was married to PBH Dudley the eldest son of the original homesteaders Phillip Benjamin Harvey Dudley and Mary Magdelena Thomson.
Mother was sitting up on the porch with all of us girls, she was infirmed that day. She ask us to take her down to her favorite rose so that she could smell it. We helped her down and after she smelled the rose she passed. Afterwards it was always called "Mother Dudley.
The rose does have an unforgettable fragrance.
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