Re: Bob and roses
- Subject: Re: Bob and roses
- From: B* C*
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 11:42:27 -0400
Claire, so was my response...at least mostly. I do have little interest in
the rather garish colours and ugly forms -both flower and shrub-of the
hybrid teas and thought you were jokingly blaming them on the lack of taste
of male rosegrowers who thought that bigger and brighter were better.
Bob
>From: ECPep@aol.com
>Reply-To: perennials@mallorn.com
>To: perennials@mallorn.com
>Subject: Bob and roses
>Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:28:39 EDT
>
>In a message dated 9/14/01 12:37:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>llebpmac_bob@hotmail.com writes:
>
><< I resent the implications about roses, since I wouldn't have a hybrid
>tea
>on
> the place if I had my way. Any that have been planted are strictly as the
> result of female influences and I have killed them off as quickly as
> possible. The same with dinner plate dahlias which I somehow forget to
>dig
> up and store. >>
>
>Please do not resent Bob, it was meant tongue in cheek. Either way I am
>sorry if you did not understand that I meant the breeders of roses were
>almost exclusively males, not gardeners. Mea culpa, Bob. C.Peplowski (who
>made the original statement)
>
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