By Any Other Name – May 2024
The May 2024 edition of By Any Other Name is here!
In this edition:
- I tell the story of the demise of two great British rose breeding nurseries with long heritages.
- Helga Brichet goes hunting for wild roses in China
- Charles Quest-Ritson explores the history of R. Gallica
- James Henderson tells the story of Burne-Jones’s sumptuous painting, The Briar Rose
- We learn about an English princess’s garden in Sweden
- Preview the New Zealand heritage rose conference
- I ask: “Who was Mme Grégoire Staechelin?”
- We pay tribute to the late great Indian rose breeder Viru Viraraghavan.
- And produce an article by him and his wife, Girija, on Richard Rose and the discovery of R. Clinophylla
Enjoy!
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By Any Other Name is the heritage rose journal of the World Federation of Rose Societies.
