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'Harison's Hardy' rose Reviews & Comments
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The Interactions of Various Rose Species
Percy H. Wright
American Rose Annual 1947
Harison's Hardy - Resulting from pollen of Harison's Yellow placed on pistils of Rosa spinosissima altaica. The flower is similar to Harison's Yellow in doubleness and size, averaging slightly larger; color a deep cream in the center of the flower and pale cream at the outside. Foliage intermediate. Plant more erect than the pollen parent. Much hardier than Harison's Yellow; hardy to -60 F. Fertile.
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Hardy to -51 Celsius, really!?
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Here is a report from the Regina-Leader Post.
"Prairie snow storm (1947)
On January 15, 1947, the front page of the Regina Leader-Post read: “Province Just One Big Snowdrift,” with a story that detailed continuous blizzards, buried trains, and even towns from Winnipeg to Calgary. The snow started in December and hardly ceased, with blizzards that kept hitting every couple of days. On February 3, Regina set a North American record when temperatures reached negative 60 degrees celsius. All highways in and out of the capital were blocked for 10 days, supplies in and out slowed, and people reportedly began travelling from their house to their shed via snow tunnel. Some rural roads and railways in Saskatchewan remained closed until spring."
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Thank you Margit, that's very interesting. There are three winters in living memory that were particularly harsh in the U.K. In 1941 there was an ice storm that paralysed transport and bought telephone and power cables down. It was said that if Germany had chosen that moment to invade they could have marched in almost unchallenged so crippled was the infrastructure. In 1962 it started snowing on Boxing Day (24th December) and there was still snow around at Easter. It was cold enough for the sea to freeze on the coasts of Kent and Essex. But 1947 was the coldest. In February snow fell on 26 out of 28 days and a temperature of -21 Celsius was recorded, cold enough to kill off rambler roses in Scotland.
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Thanks Paul. Reference added.
Andrew the reference says -60 F. Fahrenheit?
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Yes, I believe -60 Fahrenheit = -51 Celsius.
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Thank you Andrew. Interesting that the extreme cold of the 1946-1947 winter was spread over so much of the northern hemisphere. And I was complaining when we had an overnight temperature dip of -41C last week!
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Usually whatever weather happens in North America we get in some form or another a few weeks later. The last bad winter we had here was 2010 when it was very cold at both the beginning and end of the year. So far in 2018 it has been mild all I could make was a Cornish snowman.
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5 FEB 18 by
 Jay-Jay
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I had to chuckle, because of Your Cornish "Mudman"
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Love it. Just love it. On ya Andrew! I'll grin all day over this.
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