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I just got Easy on the Eyes at a local Menards. The registration name of the cv is listed on the body bag as WEKswechy. This is different from the registration name you have posted which is WEKswechefy. I don't know with is correct but thought I'd let you know. For $4 I couldn't resist an own root rose. The foliage and prickles make me think I might actually have something like what the label says.
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Many thanks for that Lawrence. We found it on the internet as WEKswechy as well and have added that spelling in the references, as well as in the main page. A code name was once supposed to identify a rose, whatever name the rose was sailing under all around the world. But now..... one wonders, was it error or subterfuge.
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On my account page it says I have a premium membership until June of 2017, but when I try to look up a pedigree it says I need to become a premium member. Not sure which is correct. I can send something through Paypal if it is actually due but was wondering what's correct
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If you see Carefree Sunshine sending forth canes about 6 ft tall with flower buds on the end, would you assume this is the climbing sport, or just really vigorous version of the shrub? Someone in town got it from a landscaper who got it from a wholesaler who got it from ...
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That's pretty much how it grew here for me.
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Very interesting. The one I bought from one of our better nurseries late summer 2004 never managed to reach 2 ft in my yard. And I saw similar potted up in Minneapolis the next year. But these are going absolutely crazy. I wonder if there as some selection process during mass production, or a mis-selection, that led to the climbing sport going out under the non-climber name. Because without the landscaper pruning these things 3x during the year, they'd be about 12 ft tall now (in front of purple barberry and evergreens and front porch).
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It has a climbing sport, which is probably what it is doing for some people. Rosy Future does the same thing.
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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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