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Listing last updated on Wed Nov 2024

California
United States

[From Rose Letter, November 2017, p. 31:] Barbara Worl died on September 12th of this year. A Quaker, a gardener, a photographer, a publisher, and an Old Rose lover, she hailed from Indiana shortly after WWII, settling in Menlo Park, California. Having graduated from Stanford University, she began working at Bell’s Bookstore where she developed its garden section, soon establishing Sweetbriar Press. She published A Portfolio of Rose Hips: 12 Watercolors by Jessie Chizu-Baer, reissued Henry Curtis’s Beauties of the Rose, and printed postcards, calendars, and photographs. Barbara was among the early founders of the Heritage Roses Group. The second Celebration of Old Roses (in 1979) took place not in El Cerrito but in Barbara’s garden on Cowper Street and in the church across the street. Old Rose authority Leonie Bell was one of the guest speakers. The Heritage Rose Group, Bay Area chapter, often met in her garden among the roses to plan the Celebration.