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Recent Questions, Answers and Comments
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yesterday by
Eirose
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The list of plants on the website seems significantly shorter than here on HMF, seems misleading. Hoped to get Looking for Love and a few other plants, because they're listed here, but none of them are on the actual website. What is going on?
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Helpmefind is run by a pitifully small handful of volunteers (I'm not one of them, partly because I type with two fingers), and they don't have time to keep each nursery's listing updated - that should be for the nursery to do. Perhaps you could suggest to the nursery that they update their hmf list.
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The breeder is James Comley, as with 'Oakmont': “Further on to the right could be seen an excellent display of cut roses from James Comely [sic; should be "Comley"] of Lexington (gardener to Francis B. Hayes), and among them a large number of the new rose, ‘Oakmont’, and ‘Francis B. Hayes’, of which he is the originator, and the stock of which he recently sold to Mr. John N. May.” [Florists’ Exchange, vol. 3, 1890, p. 213] It appears from here and elsewhere that the spelling is "Francis" not "Frances."
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yesterday by
 jedmar
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Reference added and breeder modified, thank you!
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These blooms aren't 8.5" in diameter.
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yesterday by
jedmar
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No, indeed, 8.5 cm is more like it!
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I'm wondering now if this red Hybrid Bourbon/Hybrid China with an 8 out of 10 score for fragrance from Sangerhausen and with a name starting with Francis might in fact be "Francis Dubreuil in commerce as".
Maybe that's a long shot as it seems to be pretty obscure but at least it was in Sangerhausen. Maybe they got their Francises mixed up. Just an idea.
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