Newsletter  (Aug 2015)  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "In Her Footsteps from There to Here", by Darrell g.h. Schramm, pp. 9-13]
The next five or six cemeteries I explored contain few or no old roses, but I recorded assiduously the traits of those I found, photographing them as well. In Yoncalla I met the greatgreat granddaughter of Charles Applegate, brother of Jesse Applegate who established the southern route of the Oregon Harison's Yellow Trail that led to the lower Willamette and Rogue Valley areas. We spoke at length on Oregon History. On the family property, which includes the well-preserved old homestead, grows an old white climbing rose planted there, she said, in 1851. It is a semi-double rose that I saw often in southern Oregon ditches and roadsides. I suspect it is ‘Adelaide d’Orleans’.
photo: "Applegate" Rose