RE: Rosa glauce/Anthryscus


HEllo,
I am on a rose breeding list and the moderator has
written some papers worth reading. His site is:

kuska@neo.rr.com

Have fun!
Sheri

--- Judy Sullivan <SullivanJ@ecostudies.org> wrote:
> Rose seeds are hard little stinkers, literally.  I
> scarify them before
> sowing and then they germinate nicely. They're
> small, round and slippery and
> the first time I tried traditional efforts at
> scarification I was bounding
> all over the room to catch flying seeds.  The
> "sandpaper in a jar" method
> was, also, ineffective.  So, I finally just did them
> individually, pinching
> them in between my fingers and wearing off both the
> seed coat and my skin.
> In the absence of scarification, the extra round of
> cold moist
> stratification ought to do the trick.  Good luck!
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Lon J. Rombough [l*@hevanet.com] 
> Sent:	Thursday, March 09, 2000 11:01 AM
> To:	propagation@mallorn.com
> Subject:	Re: Rosa glauce/Anthryscus
> 
> Sometimes roses take two stratifications.  I had
> some rose seed that took
> two years to come up.
> 
> ----------
> >From: diana <diana@olympus.net>
> >To: propagation@mallorn.com
> >Subject: Rosa glauce/Anthryscus
> >Date: Thu, Mar 9, 2000, 6:38 AM
> >
> 
> >
> >I've been sowing many things since December and
> everything has come up
> except the
> >Rosa glauca that came from the Perennial Plant
> Alliance.  I couldn't find
> sowing
> >info in the books I have so simply sowed it and put
> the flat on heat.
> Nothing.
> >Can someone provide some detail for sowing?
> >Also....does anyone know what the germination time
> is for anthyscus?  I see
> two
> >cotyledons, but don't trust that it isn't
> contamination due to the amount
> of seed
> >sown.
> >Thank you in advance.
> >diana
> >The Greenhouse Nursery
> >Port Angeles, WA
> >
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