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'Silver Star' rose Reviews & Comments
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MRIV says of Silver Star. Shrub. (Undritz, 1919). Silver Moon X Marie Van Houtte. Semi-dbl, Fragrant, white tinged cream, golden yellow stamens. Vig. (4 ft. high; 4 ft across); recurrent bloom.
In the 1966 ARA, Silver Star was determined extinct.
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30 JAN 10 by
 jedmar
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When the ARA "determines extinct", then one can be sure that one of the major nurseries was intending to issue a new rose with the same name. Indeed, in this case it was Kordes in 1966. Many of these "extinct" roses are well and alive in some garden.
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Perhaps David Ruston's collection should be renamed Jurassic Park.
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Margaret, David's 2003 catalogue, p26 lists the Kordes 1966 'Silver Star'.
He does not list the 1919 climber.
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Pity, it looks like an imaginative crossing (but not a climber, if the 4' is correct).
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An entry in the American Rose Annual, under the heading New Roses Registered in 1919, has " It is bushy in habit with a climbing tendency". I wonder if anyone ever thought to use it for breeding repeat blooming ramblers?
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