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'Pfuss Pfree' rose Reviews & Comments
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21 JAN 10 by
 Kim Rupert
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I'm looking for cuttings or plants of this rose, please.
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#1 of 4 posted
8 DEC 11 by
Don H
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Kim, were you ever able to find any of Lou Stoddard's roses? I'm working with R. virginiana and his carolina derivatives look like potentially good partners for my F1's.
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#2 of 4 posted
8 DEC 11 by
Kim Rupert
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Hi Don, no sir, unfortunately, it appears his roses are extinct, just as Zipper's Maytime miniature hybrids are. So much potentially good stuff gone in such a short time. Sad. Congratulations on your hybrids!
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#3 of 4 posted
8 DEC 11 by
Don H
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Lifetime worth of work, poof it's gone. IMHO the most valuable were the close species but those are least likely to have been propagated. I can understand it, though. It's only been the last couple of years, as I've come to understand the ancestries of modern roses, that new close-species hybrids are perhaps the most important contributions we can make.
>> Congratulations on your hybrids!
Thanks. I really won't know if they are hybrids until I get some F2's out of them. That's (just one of) the trouble(s) with species crosses.
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#4 of 4 posted
8 DEC 11 by
Kim Rupert
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That was Ralph's fear. I can only imagine what Dr. Basye must have felt. All that work and time invested with no one to maintain it, while his mind slipped away.
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