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grew with the most amazing vigour I’ve ever seen in the rose field, completely outgrowing and out-flowering any other rose in the field. The disease-prone indicator plants next to her quickly became infected with black spot and other rose diseases, but Jalapri didn’t show a spot on her foliage from spring until hard frost. She had thrown down the gauntlet and was ready to do battle with the very best roses on the market. My findings and photos of her were sent to Claude from New West Parks with all our findings left just between us. The following season, more cuttings were taken, and in the spring of 2008, Jalapri was planted in a field next to another rose in her same colour class—a multi-award winning, world-famous AARS rose that’s considered to be the best apricot garden Ht rose you can buy. During that summer, my baby showed her stuff, she out-flowered, outgrew and all-around outperformed her world-class competition. Little did we know, the final completion would come down to -17° C temperatures with heavy wind chill blowing on these roses during B.C.’s record-cold December/January of 2009. Most of our roses were killed to the ground and had to be cut back hard and left another year to re grow. Thank goodness for own-root roses, as they can bounce back from this type of hard pruning. Jalapri suffered some winter dieback but had plenty of nice live canes above ground to make her ready for spring 2009 harvest. A few of the winter worn plants were potted as mother plants and placed in a warmer greenhouse. True to her nature, Jalapri broke dormancy with a bang and started to send out vigorous new shoots in every direction. She simply can’t and won’t be held back. A special rose for a special occasion Early in 2009, Jalapri became ‘Royal City Rose’ and was chosen to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Western Canada’s oldest city and British Columbia’s first capital. Plants of the ‘Royal City Rose’ will be on sale at Select Roses for the fall digging of 2009, with a select number of plants available from the City of New Westminster in June. A large bed of ‘Royal City Roses’ was donated by myself and planted around New Westminster all spring. Her Lineage Rose seedling ‘Jalapri-007’ was conceived during the warm summer of 1998 and born on a cold spring day March 1999. Parentage Pretty Lady (seed parent, mother) by Living Easy (pollen parent, father). ‘Royal City Rose’ Royal City Rose grows to about 3 feet rounded and flowers late spring until frost. She is highly resistant to disease, extremely winter hardy, grows with incredible vigour on her own roots and will tolerate some shade better than most roses. Three hours of direct morning sun or better is all you need to enjoy her glorious roses. This rose can be pruned with hedge clippers if needed or in typical rose fashion each spring. ‘Royal City Rose’ produces masses of new shoots each season, which will help to make her a very long lived shrub rose. 10 June 2009 The Rose Bed
Gleanings from the Past By Dale Akerstrom I spent some time this spring going through a bunch of old Rose Beds, dating from July 1964 to December 1970, that Darlene Sanders had found in some “dusty old boxes” in her house. The Rose Bed, in those days, was one sheet of legal-sized paper, folded in half with text on the four resulting pages. It was printed every month of the year, and was typed on a stencil and mimeographed. It was fascinating reading to step back in time to the early days of the Vancouver Rose Society. Some gleanings from these old issues: - Meetings were held at the YWCA in downtown Vancouver, on Dunsmuir Street, in 1964 and 1965. In 1966, meetings moved to the hall of St. John’s Shaughnessy Anglican Church on Granville Street. In 1970, meetings moved to the Cambie YMCA. - There was an annual Banquet, held in November. It was catered and usually held at a hall on Fraser Street (“Hallmark Caterers”). In 1964, the Banquet was held on board the Lady Alexandra, which was moored at the foot of Cardero Street near the Bayshore Hotel. The October 1964 Rose Bed indicated, “Tickets will be $1.50 each for adults, children 12 or under, $1.00. The Society will absorb the difference between the $1.50 paid for tickets, and the considerably higher cost to the Society.” In the The Rose Bed June 2009 November 1964 Rose Bed, the “considerably higher cost” was revealed, in that “Guests may be invited, but will be charged $2.50 per ticket, the actual charge made by the caterers.” - The Officers of the VRS elected in November 1964 were: Honorary President – incoming Vancouver Mayor Past President – Mr. Preston Sharpe President – Mr. Stanley McDonald Treasurer – Mr. D. B. Hardie Secretary – Miss Katherine Milroy Rose Bed Editor – Mr. A. Selwood Programme Chairman – Mr. James Fowler Librarian – Mrs. R. O. Henry Rose Show Chairman and Vice-President – Mr. Alexander McGregor BC Council of Garden Clubs rep – Mrs. G. C. Faulkner Educational Committee Chairman – Mr. J. H. McGhie Publicity – Mr. Norman Curran Social Committee Convener – Mrs. C. D. Freeman Inter-Society – Mrs. John McLachlan Trophies – Mr. B. J. Thomas P.N.E. Chairman – Mrs. W. H. Walkinshaw Pruning Demonstration Chairman – Mr. G. W. Harvey Hospitality and Welcoming Committee Chairman – Mr. Norman Curran Hon. Vice-President – Miss Florence Fyfe-Smith Hon. Vice-President – Mr. William Livingstone - Pruning demonstrations were held at the Rose Garden in Stanley Park, through the cooperation of the Vancouver Parks Board. In August 1964, the annual picnic was held at the Rose Gardens in Stanley Park. - The January 1966 Rose Bed had an article on the ARS National Convention to be held in June 1966, in Portland, Oregon. It noted that members “should secure hotel or motel accommodation early as there are other conventions on at the same time. The new Hilton Hotel where the Convention headquarters will be is already booking reservations for June. These deluxe 11
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