Call for articles for the Winter 2010 Newsletter

The Fall 2010 Newsletter requested article submissions on two topics:

Hybridizing under challenging conditions (extreme cold, extreme heat, extremes of dryness and wetness, severe pressure from various rose diseases–or from various critters (4-legged, 6-legged, 8-legged–maybe even 0-legged)

Hybridizing for novelties or with novelties (this symposium was carried over from the Fall issue).

The date given for submissions, December 10, is almost a month in the past. We are beginning to work on the Winter Newsletter now. We still have some room for your articles, comments, questions, etc. If we have enough articles by the end of this coming week, we hope to go to press with the issue on January 16. Please share your ideas and experiences, and please do so as soon as possible to enable us to lay out the issue soon.

If you have questions, or you wish to submit an article, please email either me (peterdotharrisdotgATgmaildotcom) or Betsy and Michel van der Hoek at rhaeditorATgmaildotcom. We can accept attachments in almost any format. If you find a format we can’t deal with, we will help you get it into a usable format.

Thanks for your help. Let’s have a great 2011.

Peter

One person has submitted an article and a short note in response to the recent call for articles. Thank you. We still need articles for the Winter issue.

I’ve seen a good bit of forum discussion related to the symposium topics. Maybe some of you who share your ideas so freely with each other on the forum could put your ideas in an article which will go into the Newsletter.

At this time we don’t have a sponsor for the color cover of the Newsletter. If you have a seedling you think is attractive or interesting and would like to sponsor its picture on the cover of the Newsletter, the space is still available. But do hurry–we would like to wrap up this issue by the coming weekend so that we can send it to press early next week. Get in touch with any of the editorial team (our email addresses are in the previous posting) or with Larry Peterson (his email address is in the link on the “How to join the Rose Hybridizers Association” page–click the “Join the RHA” link at the top of this page) to make arrangements.

And if you haven’t joined the RHA, you should do that too. If you’ve been living in the dark all these years, brighten up and ask for a sample copy.

Peter