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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
My family's business over the centuries has been rose growers. When we arrived in NY my family set up a mile of greenhouses for growing roses. They employed Asians to work the greenhouses. One day a large box kite was constructed by one of the workers. The kite was large enough to fly a worker and they did. Unfortunate he fell out of the kite and crashed through a greenhouse window. He was ok after the incident.
At any rate, my great grandfather created a hybrid rose knows as the Schultheis Rose. Here is a picture and description.
http://www.vintagegardens.com/roses.aspx?cat_id=20
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Will be looking that up to grow in my back yard along with the veggies, and raspberries, grape vines and the rose tree arbors -Schultheis. We plant the roses at the heads of the grape vine rows here as they are a early warning mine canary of sorts. if the roses ain't looking good there's probably a problem with the grapes too. Have your defibrillator standing by: 1 acre of Cabernet Savignon acreage is $2-4 million-roses and vines not included- but it may be a useful sale lead for you as the great houses of the landsraat , Mondavi etc., all do it too and it looks good for the tourists.
