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unusual facts about Rosa 'Chrysler Imperial'


Rosa 'Chrysler Imperial'

This variety was bred and publicly debuted by Dr. Walter E. Lammerts of Descanso Gardens, La Cañada, California, USA in 1952.


Buddy Arrington

Buddy's two Chrysler Imperials were the last Chrysler products to run in the NASCAR Winston Cup series.

Chrysler Imperial

The Imperial was available with a choice of several Infinity sound systems, all with a cassette player.

On April 28, 1955, Chrysler and Philco had announced the development and production of the World’s First All-Transistor car radio.

Ferdinand Paul Wirtgen

His work consisted of studies in the fields of floristics, phytogeography and plant systematics, of which he conducted systematic investigations of ferns and also plants from the genera Verbascum, Rubus, Salix, Rumex, Mentha, Rosa, Carex and Epilobium.

Harkness Roses

In the 1950s, Harkness popularized 'Frensham' and 'Ena Harkness', both developed by amateur Albert Norman, and for a time 'Ena Harkness' was the most popular red Hybrid Tea in the world.

James Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance

produce a further 14 roses named after characters in the novels of Sir Walter Scott, including the Jeanie Deans Hybrid Rose.

Richard Harison

He married Maria Jones, and their son was George Folliott Harison (1776–1846), the namesake of "Harison's Yellow Rose".

Rick Baldwin

He ran a few races each season during 1983-85 running his self-owned Dodge Mirada and Chrysler Imperial.

Rosa – A Horse Drama

The Death of a Composer: Rosa – A Horse Drama is a 1993-94 opera by Louis Andriessen on a libretto by Peter Greenaway, the sixth libretto in Greenaway's Death of a Composer series that explores the deaths of ten 20th-century composers from Anton Webern to John Lennon.

Rosa 'Belmonte'

Rosa Belmonte was named in honour of Her Excellency Donna Francesca Elbrick di Belmonte, descendant of the Dukes of Acerenza and daughter of TE the Prince and Princess of Belmonte, to mark the occasion of her marriage to the grandson of Ambassador Charles Elbrick.

Rosa 'Harison's Yellow'

The site of Harison's villa is now just south of the present General Post Office.

Harison's Yellow is naturalized at abandoned house sites through the west and is found as a feral rose along the Oregon Trail.

Rosa 'Queen Sirikit'

Andre Hendricx, Director of "Grandes Roseraiea du Val de Loire", asked permission from Queen Sirikit of Thailand to name the rose after her.

Rosa 'Spice Twice'

Rosa 'Spice Twice' is an orange Hybrid tea rose.

Rosa 'Violet Carson'

The flower has been notably featured in the graphic novel V for Vendetta, but in the movie version, is renamed to the fictitious "Scarlet Carson" which Valerie grows for her partner and V grows during his imprisonment in the Larkhill Resettlement Camp.

Theodor Rudolph Joseph Nitschke

In his earlier research he was interested in angiosperms such as the genus Rosa and the species Drosera rotundifolia (common sundew), From the late 1860s, he focused on mycology, publishing significant works on the fungal class Pyrenomycetes.


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