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'Ethel Brownlow' rose Reviews & Comments
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14 JUN by
odinthor
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It is most trying that one cannot track down the colored plate of 'Miss Ethel Brownlow' featured in the July 1893 issue of the Gardeners Magazine, nor indeed a copy of that issue with or without the plate. Does anyone have access to the holdings of the Royal Horticultural Society, which evidently does have the (full?) run of the Gardeners Magazine (which was edited by Shirley Hibberd, should that be of interest)? Or, short of that, does anyone have an "in" with the RHS such that they could wheedle a Society librarian into scanning the plate for the good of humanity?
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29 JAN 21 by
Cambridgelad
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May have been bred by George Dickson (1832-1914), who has blue plaque on his former home saying he was a notable rose breeder, but we will never know for sure if it was bred by him or his son. Alexander II. All we can say is they started breeding roses in 1879 and bred the first Dickson Pedgree Roses. George was the son of the founder of A Dickson & Sons, Alexander Dickson I.
Ref. The Makers of Heavenly Roses by Jack L. Harkness
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30 JAN 21 by
 jedmar
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I re-read the chapter on Dickson in Harkness' book and cannot find there a specific reference to 'Miss Ethel Brownlow'. George Dickson I "started breeding roses in 1879" after Bennett's success and he and his "two rose-minded sons became engrosses in this new venture", but that is the nearest it gets to it. Alexander II took Dickson's 'First Set of Pedigree Seedlings' in 1886 to London. Also George I, became known for crossing heathers, not roses.
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