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In Florida's hot, humid conditions, I find this to be a great improvement on many of the similar Austins. Vigorous but not too-big growth, and flowers frequently and heavily. The only downside is the lack of fragrance. But it's a great rose.
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Im skeptical of the parentage. Its not a sport of Climbing America? Maybe? I see whats listed on the web catalog, but I feel like its really incorrect. That color, even from a sport, does not seem possible from that lineage.
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Parentage changed to 'America' (JAClam) 1975. That better?
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16 APR 21 by
mmanners
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Sorry, I'm just now seeing this, but yes, the rose is definitely a sport of America ('JACclam') 1976. I saw the original plant in Dr. Rubert Prevatt's garden in the early 1980s, on which the sport occurred.
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16 APR 21 by
jedmar
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Where was Dr. Prevatt's garden?
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8 DEC 21 by
mmanners
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Jedmar, Sorry about the late reply (5 years!) -- just now seeing it. Dr. Prevatt gardened in Lakeland Florida.
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9 DEC 21 by
jedmar
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No problem, Malcolm! Meanwhile that information had been added.
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Dr. Rubert W. Prevatt. Notice the correct spelling of his first name -- "Rubert" not "Rupert."
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6 DEC 21 by
jedmar
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Thank you, corrected.
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Here's a note on the origin of the name "Fields of the Wood." The rose was found growing at the Fields of the Wood Christian park, near Murphy, North Carolina, perhaps in the 1950s. It was given at that time to Mrs. Mary Hudson of Macon, Georgia. She then gave it to Dr. Charles A. Walker, Jr., in the early to mid-1970s. In the 1980s, Charles gave it to me, and we have propagated and distributed it since, under that name. The park got its name from the King James Bible, Psalm 132:6, "...we found it in the fields of the wood." Many people habitually misspell it (singular "Field" and plural "Woods").
Phillip Robinson also found it in California, and called it "Kocher Red." It was for years listed under that name in the Vintage Roses catalog.
At the Heritage Rose Foundation meeting in El Cerrito, California, in 2005, Dan Russo, from Connecticut, showed a slide of the Brownell rose (1957) 'Rhode Island Red'. I was sitting near Phillip at the time, and I heard him say "That's Kocher Red!" as I was mumbling "That's Fields of the Wood!" It's a very distinctive rose, not easily mistaken for anything else.
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