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'Everest' rose Reviews & Comments
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Regarding the question of parentage. Rosenlexicon gives it as Candeur Lyonnaise x Mme Colette Martinet. I believe this to be correct, as I own Mr. Easlea's copy of the book. Where parentage of his roses is not given, he wrote it in pencil in the margins. On the page with Everest, he marked the rose, but did not change the listed parentage, so I assume he agreed with what is printed there. I posted a list of his parentages here:
http://members.cruzio.com/~perry/easlea.html
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What a brilliant resource Jill! How marvellous to have Mr Easlea's annotated copy. A treasure.
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28 DEC 12 by
Vivienne
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I am Walter Easlea's great granddaughter and my mother Thelma Easlea is his granddaughter. We are both keen to know and learn about his roses and were interested to see that you have one of his books with his inscriptions and comments on his roses. We live in NZ and I have in my garden Easlea's Golden Rambler and Thelma and as far as we can find Everest is only available in NZ at the Timaru Council Gardens. I have tried to grow a cutting from the Council but it unfortunately died. No other of Walter Easlea's roses are available in NZ as far as we know, and I don't think we are able to bring roses into NZ now with their strict aggricultural regulations. As to the book you have, I was wondering whether you could send me a photocopy of the pages with his comments on so that I could add them to my collection of Walter Easlea memorablia.
Kind regards
Vivienne Hawken (and Thelma Chatfield nee Easlea)
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Hi Vivienne
Do you happen to have photos of 'Everest' at the Timaru Council Gardens? And can you comment on its recurrence at Timaru?
We have speculated about the possibility of a very special unidentified rose in a cemetery in Adelaide being 'Everest' and it would be wonderful to have a series of detailed photos of buds, leaves, blooms, prickles, habit etc etc with which to compare this foundling.
Regards
Billy West
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The 1933 reference could explain the low / tall descriptions, and possibly the non-remontant, or remontant habit of 'Everest' mentioned variously in the references.
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23 MAY 10 by
kev
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there is no quetion about the provenance of this rose.it is a hybrid perpetual and not a hybrid tea.
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Kev.............
I have changed the ARS class designation to reflect only the HP class, but if you check the NOTE at the bottom of the rose page, you will see that both parentage and class are in question and it is suggested you review the REFERENCES on the rose page.
Lyn
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