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'Ames Climber' rose References
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Book (Apr 1993) Page(s) 15.
Ames 5 Hybrid Blanda, pink, ('Ames Climber'); R. multiflora x R. blanda; Maney... Introduced as a rose understock.
Website/Catalog (1949)
"AMES CLIMBER - originally introduced as Ames Six, the result of a cross between Multiflora and Blanda, made by the late Prof. T. J. Maney of Ames, Iowa. Will grow to ten feet, with absolutely thornless stems, red in winter. Flowers of good size for a Multiflora hybrid, like wild roses, wild-rose pink, but occurring in clusters. This rose is enormously floriferous, one sheet of pink in late June. Not hardy above the snow-line in most winters, but always hardy if covered with snow. This is our best well-tested under-stock rose,and our nearest approximation to a hardy and satisfactory rambler rose."
Percy Wright Catalogue - Hardy and Semi-Hardy Roses - ca 1949 p.6
Website/Catalog (1949)
"SEEDLINGS* OF AMES CLIMBER - - these seedlings are one-quarter Multiflora, the Japanese rambler rose, and three-quarters Blanda. The flowers are smaller than Ames Six flowers, and one strain is semi-double, though descended from two single parents. These seedlings are hardier than Ames Six, but we do not yet know their ultimate height. Offered for trial as understock, for breeding, and for test as approximations to the climbing type. Climber genes bring so much tenderness into roses that it seems obvious that if we ever get a satisfactory climber or pillar rose, it will have to be three-quarters wild rose "blood". "
Percy Wright Catalogue - Hardy and Semi-Hardy Roses - ca 1949 p.6
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