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'5217-24' rose Reviews & Comments
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Received NRS Trial Ground Certificate in 1960.
NRS Annual 1961 p159
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27 AUG 20 by
AGBTG
Steady producer of big showy blooms. Only a light fragrance so far but healthy and eye catching color though still filling out a one gallon pot here in a warmer and drier summer.
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I was doing some browsing tonight and found that UC-Davis has a collection of nursery catalogs. This might be a source of photos for some of the HMF roses. For instance Multnomah, by Peterson and Dering has no photo. The collection has catalog from later 1950s, when that rose might have still been in commerce from that source. I'm not sure of copyright issues, but with the company out of business since 1965, it is probably not much of a problem.
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Larry, do you have a www. link for the UC Davis holdings? Thanks, Kerin
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That's how I found it- Google. It is in the UC-Davis Special Collections with a title of "Inventory of the Nursery and Seed Catalog Collection". I didn't write more because I believe you have to go there in person to see the catalogs. Most special collections will photocopy but you need an act of the legislature- or the archivist, to take it to a place where you can do a color copy. But with a decent digital camera and their permission, you could photograph all the roses that are actually illustrated. Recall that in those days, two late 50s, one early 60s, color was expensive so only a fraction of CV got full color. And that may have not been the greatest. I have catalogs from several nurseries personally, but never had one from P & D. It was really pretty much before my time that they went under.
Another source is the Alfred Powers papers at the Oregon Historical Society, for a '62 catalog. It is in box 6, folder 7. libreference@ohs.org is their contact. They are in Portland.
I didn't chase this hard, but there may be older catalogs in another library collection somewhere.
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Yes that sounds useful. Please provide some details.
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Do you have a listing of roses for which you lack photos? then those of us who have some catalogs could systematically go through and see what we can find. I have a dozen or so from '60-'90. Others may have a different assortment.
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See the "Preferences" option for the Advanced Search. Thanks !!
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