The museum's grounds were once the estate of noted rhododendron hybridizer Charles O . Dexter, where between 1921-1943 Dexter developed between 5, 000 and 10, 000 seedlings annually.
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His store was close to the rosarium of Empress Josephine's rose hybridizer, Andr?Dupont, in [ the rue du Four in Paris ] ], from whom he became interested in breeding roses.
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Yet another attribute the breeders seek is disease resistance, which is one of the reasons they are so partial to Sweet Charlie, which was named for the late Dr . Charles Howard, the hybridizer who came up with it.
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A . With patience, a rose can be grown from a seed, and in fact all the Peace roses of today are descended from a plant grown in 1939 from a single seed nurtured by Francis Meilland, the hybridizer.
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So the hybridizer, the seedsman who has his eye cocked to the future, has got to take risks, to use his imagination to dream up something new, and then work his tail off trying to make it a reality.
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Now a professional hybridizer and nurseryman in Bridgeton, N . J ., Apps watched in 1985 as Stella de Oro won the American Hemerocallis Society's Stout Silver Medal, the top award given to a day-lily cultivar.
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*Brad Jalbert is a Canadian rose hybridizer, known for introducing the'Loretta Lynn Van Lear'rose, the'Marylou Whitney'rose and the'Royal City Rose'which commemorated the anniversary of the city of New Westminster, British Columbia.
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Only a handful of varieties were available until about 10 years ago, when Dan Heims, a hybridizer and an owner of Terra Nova Nurseries in Portland, Ore ., started working with them and pulmonarias suddenly became boutique plants, fashionable among adventurous perennial gardeners and collectors.
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When the pioneering rose hybridizer Jacques-Louis Descemet ( 1761 & ndash; 1839 ) was forced to leave his nursery after invasion by the British following the Battle of Waterloo, Vibert absorbed Descemet's nursery stock, 10, 000 rose seedlings, and hybridizing records.
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In 1952, he addressed a Royal Horticultural Society lily meeting, attended by Jan de Graaff, proprietor of the Oregon Bulb Farm in the USA . De Graaff offered Comber the job of lily hybridizer, which he accepted, and he duly emigrated to Gresham, Oregon.
