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Walter Easlea (the son) wrote an article called Reminiscences which appeared in the The National Rose Society 1935.
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I became interested in the two Easlea men a few years back. I have this 1935 article by Walter Easlea (the son) on file, but it is five pages long.
I also have another article written in 1896 by Walter Easlea (the father), but that too is five pages.
And then there are another six pages on what I found on the two men, and their roses. It is all most interesting to students of Easlea, but I am not sure that Helpmefind can accept messages of such verbosity????
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Dear Patricia, I hope this reply to your message 11 years ago reaches you. I live about half a mile from the site of the old Easlea nursery. I am researching the history of the family business and their rose breeding in the hope that I can interest a local nursery in stocking some Easlea roses and thereby giving the Easlea name the prominence it deserves again here in Essex at least. I would be very interested in seeing the articles that you have. With many thanks, Dawn
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Dawn, I have noted your message and will get back to you within a week, I hope. In the meantime, would you remove your email address please from your Comment. I have made a note of your address.
Thanks.
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That's great. Thank you Patricia.
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Regarding the question of parentage. Rosenlexicon gives it as Candeur Lyonnaise x Mme Colette Martinet. I believe this to be correct, as I own Mr. Easlea's copy of the book. Where parentage of his roses is not given, he wrote it in pencil in the margins. On the page with Everest, he marked the rose, but did not change the listed parentage, so I assume he agreed with what is printed there. I posted a list of his parentages here:
http://members.cruzio.com/~perry/easlea.html
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What a brilliant resource Jill! How marvellous to have Mr Easlea's annotated copy. A treasure.
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Vivienne
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I am Walter Easlea's great granddaughter and my mother Thelma Easlea is his granddaughter. We are both keen to know and learn about his roses and were interested to see that you have one of his books with his inscriptions and comments on his roses. We live in NZ and I have in my garden Easlea's Golden Rambler and Thelma and as far as we can find Everest is only available in NZ at the Timaru Council Gardens. I have tried to grow a cutting from the Council but it unfortunately died. No other of Walter Easlea's roses are available in NZ as far as we know, and I don't think we are able to bring roses into NZ now with their strict aggricultural regulations. As to the book you have, I was wondering whether you could send me a photocopy of the pages with his comments on so that I could add them to my collection of Walter Easlea memorablia.
Kind regards
Vivienne Hawken (and Thelma Chatfield nee Easlea)
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Hi Vivienne
Do you happen to have photos of 'Everest' at the Timaru Council Gardens? And can you comment on its recurrence at Timaru?
We have speculated about the possibility of a very special unidentified rose in a cemetery in Adelaide being 'Everest' and it would be wonderful to have a series of detailed photos of buds, leaves, blooms, prickles, habit etc etc with which to compare this foundling.
Regards
Billy West
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