By Any Other Name – May 2025

The May 2025 edition of By Any Other Name is out!

In this edition:

• We publish an abridged version of an article by the late Robert Calkin on the scents of old roses. Can you smell a rose’s ancestry?
• Debbie Symes explores the tragic history of mental health in the Pemberton family that may have led Joseph and his sister Florence to rose breeding.
• I tell the story of J H Nicolas, the international special rose agent whose work may have kept several great rose breeding families in business in the aftermath of WWII.
• Dovilé Ryliene tells the story of a remarkable rose garden in Latvia.
• Charles Quest-Ritson previews the World Federation of Rose Societies’ conference in Japan.
• Jacques Verschuren celebrates his family’s 150 years of rose hybridisers.
• Steve Jones examines the history of the florist trade in North America and its influence on rose history.
• Michael Marriott pays tribute to the late Robert Calkin.

Enjoy!

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By Any Other Name is the heritage rose journal of the World Federation of Rose Societies.