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Margit Schowalter
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Personal correspondence: Robert Erskine to Percy Wright, Percy Wright fonds, University of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada June 17, 1976 For years I grew seedlings of Rosa acicularis AURORA, but they all had pink flowers until a new one bloomed last week, which had flowers of a better red than those on its' parent bush. They are deeper colored, less blue, and nearer scarlet. It also has the most attractive leaves I have ever seen on a native rose bush. If I could get another seedling like it but with 15 or 20 petals, it should be valuable. Acicularis blooms at a time when the flowering crabs and plums are over but other roses have not started.
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A note: In the American Rose Annual 1960 Mr. Percy Wright writes: "I put pollen of Harison's Yellow on Pistil of R. macounii.
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Thank you Kazanlik. Reference added. That is a reversal of the parentage we are listing at the moment. I will correct it tomorrow.
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R. Macounii Rydberg is not the same R. macounii used by Percy Wright. His R.. macounii is interchangeable with R. Rosa woodsii Lindl. subsp. woodsii
See Mordern Roses 10 p. 674.
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Thank you Margit. Corrected.
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Lovely and apparently quite rare?
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It has been sold in a few nurseries locally (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba) since being introduced in 2020 but not heavily marketed. Bylands Nursery in Kelowna, British Columbia introduced it in 2020. However, they discontinued their testing and development program the following year.
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Sounds familiar.
Some of the best I've bred and many I've seen from others will never be offered.
Then some I don't consider worthy are marketed for one reason or another and get distribution.
Sadly, that's the reality of making new roses.
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11 FEB 08 by
Cass
From the notes of Walter Schowalter, courtesy of Margit Schowalter: Tetonkaha - Hybrid rugosa - Hansen There seems to be half a dozen different forms of this rose in circulation. It seems Dr. Hansen was rather careless about keeping his stock unmixed. Mine was a four foot shrub with semi-double deep rose colored blossoms, produced in July. Very hardy.
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Are any of the Tetonkaha roses still out there?
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Years ago I sent both Joe Bergersen and the N.E. Hansen Memorial Garden located in South Dakota suckers of 'Yatkan' and 'Tetonkaha'. Whether they survived or not, I don't know. I believe both cultivars are still growing at the University of Alberta Botanic Garden, in Alberta, Canada.
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Thank you! Returning to add that South Dakota State University still has Tetonkaha rose as well as Hansen, Alika, Mrs. Mina Lindell, Lilian Gibson, Pax Apollo, Emmadora, Yatkan, and Zitkala roses
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