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Brooks Horticultural Center Rose Garden
 Photo courtesy of Margit Schowalter
Crop Diversification Centre South
301 Horticulture Station Road East Brooks, Alberta T1R 1E6 Canada USDA Zone: 3b
This important heritage rose garden is only open on certain days by arrangement. The Brooks Rose Garden contains very rare Canadian- and USA-bred hardy roses that were used in breeding by Agriculture Canada's lines of Explorer and Parkland roses. In fact, some of the roses in the garden were thought to be extinct. Both named roses and unnamed seedlings used for breeding can be found here, bred by such pioneering hybridizers as Percy H. Wright, Dr. Frank L. Skinner, George Wallace, Walter Schowalter, Robert M. Erskine, Henry H. Marshall, Prof. N.E. Hansen, and Dr. Griffith J. Buck.
Since 2003, the rose garden has been maintained by the Communities In Bloom Alberta, a volunteer organization, under the guidance of Oswald Schalm, a former high school principal.
The list of roses in the garden contained some rose names that could not be found. Assuming those names are likely to be known roses, the name of the known rose is shown on the HMF list of plants, as follows:
Alberta Rose --> Rosa acicularis
Mdme Jule Poteinne -->Mme. Julien Potin, hybrid rugosa
Belle Pointevin -->Belle Poitevine
Bty of Leafland --> Beauty of Leafland
Cardinette --> Morden Cardinette
Cararoyal --> Caroyal
Double Blanc Coubert --> Blanc Double de Courbert
Parfum de Hay --> Parfum de l'Hay, hybrid rugosa
Polstjarnon --> Polejarnan
Prairie Rose --> Prairie Sweetheart, per Walter Schowalter's notes
RR3 --> Ross Rambler 3
Rosa laxa alba and Rosa laxa Pink --> Rosa laxa Retzius, which is known to be pink or white. If these are forms that reproduce true from seed, than a taxonomic adjustment will be required
Rheinspark -->Rheinaupark
Rosa foliolsa -->Rosa foliolosa Nuttal
Scotch Altai --> Altaica
Seagar Wheeler -->Seager Wheeler **references are scarce; the spelling of "Seagar" may be correct.
Rosa de Hay --> Roseraie de l'Hay, hybrid rugosa
M6910 --> Morden 6910, identified as SCHARLACHGLUT
The following has not yet been identified:
Rosa Haj -->unknown
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