Garden photo courtesy of Margit Schowalter

Devonian Botanic Garden August 2010

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Uploaded 13 AUG 10

Publication / Article / Video photo courtesy of Margit Schowalter

This is the earliest Catalogue I have seen from Skinner's Dropmore Nursery. The rose seeds he was selling were Rosa altaica, Rosa acicularis (Manitoba), Rosa blanda (Manitoba), Rosa Spinosissima (from miscellaneous single and double hybrids raised at Dropmore) and Rosa Suffulta (Pratincola).

Uploaded 10 APR 11

Breeder photo courtesy of Margit Schowalter

Letter found in Dr. F.L.Skinner papers Province of Manitoba Archives

Uploaded 9 AUG 09

Breeder photo courtesy of Margit Schowalter

Photo copied from Walter Schowalter's scrapbook. The publication appears to be The Western Producer. "Not long before his retirement he completed an excellent bulletin on house plants. On the day of his retirement, one of his roses was named The Prairie Wren. A former production of his also a rose, had been named Prairie Sailor and these two joined other important productions which include the Morden pink lythrum and the Morden Maid and Nasturtium gladioli. In 1928, he began a long, thorough program of rose breeding, making in the interim a great many crosses, from which 10,000 cross-breds had bloomed up to the time of his retirement. As a gesture of the esteem in which his services were held by the station where he worked so productively for so many years, the ornamental driveway which curves through the Morden Station was named Godfrey Drive."

Uploaded 17 AUG 10