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| See: http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/handle/19716/10399/MSS064 3_S2011_D_1942c.pdf?sequence=1 |
Here is a link that might be useful: link for above
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| What IS it, Henry? It looks like a mirror image of faded typescript?? Jeri |
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| What IS it, Henry? It looks like a mirror image of faded typescript?? Jeri |
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- Posted by henry_kuska z5 OH (kuska@neo.rr.com) on Mon, Oct 15, 12 at 22:17
| People west of the Mississippi have to scroll down
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- Posted by henry_kuska z5 OH (kuska@neo.rr.com) on Tue, Oct 16, 12 at 1:00
| See: http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/search?query=roses&submit=Go |
Here is a link that might be useful: University of Delaware Library Institutional Repository with search term roses
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- Posted by poorbutroserich NASHVILLE (My Page) on Tue, Oct 16, 12 at 12:43
| ooh ooh I know (waving arm frantically). The short answer is YES! When I saw the date and the place my first thought was "Peace" rose. Then as I read further it was obvious we were dealing with a shrewd man with a fabulous grasp of contract law and business. I also had seen the name "Mrs. Platt" in GST' Book of Roses I've been reading. I think there is a rose named after her--also the names "Breeze Hill" and "Riverton" rang bells. Then I found this: Located in West Grove, Pennsylvania, the Conard-Pyle Company was originally organized in 1897 by Alfred S. Conard and A. Morris Jones as a mail-order nursery and seed business specializing in own-root roses grown from cuttings and sold while still small. Robert Pyle joined the company in 1898 and purchased control in it after Conard's death in 1907. Pyle rapidly developed the business with the popular sale of two-year-old field-grown plants on grafted roots, which brought higher prices and yielded plants that would bloom in the first year of purchase. Pyle became an internationally known nurseryman and authority on roses, serving in leadership positions on the American Rose Society, the National Association of Plant Patent Owners, the American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboretums, the American Horticultural Society, and other organizations. The most famous rose introduced by Pyle is the Peace rose, patented in 1943 from the work of the French hybridizer Francis Meilland. Nearly every new rose today is descended from the Peace rose. |
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| Who is the author of the memo? I had wondered whether it had anything to do with Conard-Pyle (Star Roses). It would not be them going out of business, but as a rose producer in PA, they might be buying assets. |
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- Posted by henry_kuska z5 OH (kuska@neo.rr.com) on Tue, Oct 16, 12 at 15:19
| michaelg, it is from Robert Pyle's diary. http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/handle/19716/10392/browse?type=date
issued The link below is from the Simithsonian Library. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Pyle, Robert�(1877-1951) description from Simithsonian
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| For about seven years, I've wondered why the rose "Mary Wallace" isn't better known. It was a Van Fleet introduction that (to my mind) is a better massive rose with climber proclivities than Dr. W Van Fleet or New Dawn (because MW out blooms New Dawn when one would expect New Dawn to be repeating.) MW was named for the daughter of the head of the USDA when Van Fleet was working there (butter up the boss much?) The reference on the last page to MW jsut makes things a bit more interesting. |
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