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'Rosa arkansana 'Corsley Form'' rose Reviews & Comments
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To Charles Quest-Ritson,
Charles - in the comment attached to your photo you say:
"I introduced this species hybrid in 1987."
In HelpMeFind I am used to a rose being introduced by a nursery.
Do you have a nursery that we should be listing?
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Our garden was open to the public and we used to sell plants to help pay the gardeners' wages. We introduced about a dozen plants, mostly things that were not then available from nurseries (e.g. Geranium palustre, Symphytum caucasicum), but also a few roses. The form of R. gallica that we called 'Becketts Single' was another of our introductions; so was 'Octet'. I have a soft spot for the arkansana x moyesii hybrid because it has such a long season of flower and suckers around a bit so that we can usually dig up piece for anyone who admires it. I have often wondered about its ploidy - arkansana is usually diploid and moyesii hexaploid. It turned up in a batch of arkansana seedlings. Does this help? CQ-R.
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Yes. It certainly does. Are you the BREEDER? I am not sure that I can actually list you as the introducing nursery, but it is now documented in the comments if anyone ever needs to know where it came from in the U.K.
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Patricia, why all the fuss? Perhaps you might like to read the International Convention on the Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants before deciding that you cannot accept an individual's name as a breeder. It's been validly published – what else do you want? A copy of our catalogue? A reference in CRL? They exist, but perhaps you could take my word for it instead. CQ-R.
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You might like to actually read my question again.
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"…to actually read"? Well at least I don't split my infinitives! Yes, I am the breeder – if that is the question you wish me to answer. Did you get a long e-mail I sent to your private e-mail address at reachnet? I have a number of concerns about the viability of HMF and I can't find anyone who is in a position to reassure me. What I want to know is just how it is constituted, financed and managed. In short, am I wasting my time uploading pictures and contributing to discussions?
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