By Any Other Name – November 2025

The Autumn edition of By Any Other Name is out!

In this edition:

• Co-editor, Charles Quest-Ritson, makes a plea for rose conservation.
• In China, where plans are now well underway for the exciting heritage rose conference taking place there next April, we learn of the discovery of previously unidentified roses species.
• From Australia, Di Durston shares her story of finding and naming an unidentified old rose, involving detective work across three continents.
• Inés Díaz de Licandro, reports from Uruguay on the reintroduction to Spain of a superb 19th century rose, ‘E. Veyrat Hermanos’.
• Andreas Meier-Dinkel tells the story of the rose collection at Kassel Wilhelmshöhe in Germany.
• Erich Unmuth introduces the ‘Volksgarten’ in Vienna.
• Richard Rix explores the portrayal of Alba roses in art.
• Dr Inna Koval describes the plight of rare species roses in the war zones of Ukraine. We highlight several books you may wish to buy.
• And I celebrate the coming 150th anniversary of the UK Rose Society – the world’s oldest specialist plant society.

Enjoy!

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