Article (newsletter)  (Jun 2010)  Page(s) 46.  
 
The China Rose Society has organised experts to collect, identify and preserve the cultivars scattered in home gardens around the countryside, and made a preliminary determination of eight rose centres in Huaiyin (Jiangsu Province), Laizhou (Shandong Province), Zhengzhou (Henan Province), etc. More than 50 old rose cultivars like Lv e were ex situ conserved and some old rose cultivars such as Ruan xiang hong, Jin fen lian, and Fen he xiang were successfully used for the improvement of new rose cultivars.