Breeder photo courtesy of billy teabag

ROSE-GROWERS OF BYGONE DAYS Standing, left to right: Mr. W. Gater, Mr. H. Merryweather, Mr. Illman; other two not known. Sitting: Mr. Ball, Mr. Charles Gater, Mr B.R. Cant, Mr. Nevard Rose-Growers of Bygone Days. – In the early [eighteen] seventies – a time when great advance was made in the introduction of new varieties of Roses – Mr Quilter of Aston Park, Birmingham, promoted and held some first-class Rose shows, and one condition was a ten pound penalty if a grower entered and did not exhibit. On one of these particular occasions I well remember having a very enjoyable luncheon, when our old and esteemed friend, the late Benjamin Cant, took the chair, and someone proposed that we should have our photograph taken in a group, a copy of which may be of some interest to your readers. I well remember we had a fine meeting of all Rose-growers and a splendid exhibition from the leading exhibitors of the country. – HENRY MERRYWEATHER, Southwell, Notts. The Garden Vol 77 October 11, 1913 p506

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Breeder photo courtesy of scvirginia

photo from the frontispiece for The Rosarian's Year-book for 1886

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