With e-mail uncertain, I’m posting directly. I harvested earlier and I think a lot better seeds this year from local and area source for R. arkansana or whatever you want to call it. If I sent you some last year and they failed to grow you may want to try again. Let me know. You can e-mail my easy address ldavis at ksu.edu which also accepts spam (mostly)
If any one want some R. woodsii I can send them seeds of these. They are just op seeds. Their is a lot of variety in this species up here.
So far R. woodsii has been a little bit of a pain in trying to breed them with anything besides rugosas. But I did manage to get their pollen to set on R. glauca and Little White Lies last year and I do have hips on R. foliosa this year. I know the R. glauca and the Little White Lies seedlings are true hybrids, however only two of these seedlings have been worth keeping out of a large number. It seems what resistance to disease totally breaks down the first generation (after reading one of the post of Henry with a research paper on it I am wondering if I should have kept a few more??) hopefully the R. foliosa x R. woodsii will for the most part turn out to be hybrids. Their is a good chance they are selfs unless this form I have of R. foliosa shows a strong self incompatibility which I am sort of betting on especially since it is diploid but we will see. The form of R. foliolsa I am using is completely thornless so far.
Larry
I’m interested in the Arkansana seeds. e-mail me at lskirko at sympatico dot ca.
Thanks
Larry, did you receive the email I sent yesterday, I would love to have some seeds, if you would be willing to sent them to a MU grad. (Go Tigers 
My arkansana seeds are sprouting. Given the unique rebloom of R. arkansana, when can I expect to see flowers?
Some decades ago I crossed this with Carefree Beauty. the seedlings did not bloom the first year. I think some may have bloomed the 2nd year. But I didn’t keep useful records on what fraction. I saw nothing of interest at that time, all were like the R ark parent. So out they went.
None of my R. arkansana hybrids bloomed in year one. None have become remontant as they matured. I believe the remontancy found in arkansana is unique to it and two copies of the gene must be present for it to function. The thing to do might be mating select F1 R. arkansana hybrids with each other, or similar F1 arkansana hybrids, and watch for signs of remontancy in the F2, or F3.
Mine started sprouting in the fridge along with some OP Joseph Coat Blue girl and an unknown yellow I found at my sisters
seedlings are not growing as fast as I expected several have passed away very sad these are my first seedlings
David
Well, at least you know some of the seeds were viable. That’s always a question with species stuff. And they may continue germinating for months.