The GUILD 6-15-2003 Everything's coming up roses

Martha Stewart ^

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

	DO YOU KNOW?
	Clicking on an underlined plant name will link you to that cultivar’s entry in the Encyclopedia of Plants.

Favorite Roses

Choosing the Roses
To create the look she wanted in her East Hampton rose garden, we selected many old-fashioned and antique roses. Of the more than 700 hundred varieties she chose, most are old-timers, and the rest have the look, if not the pedigree. Through careful selection, Martha's roses bloom in waves from May to late October, producing blooms for fresh arrangements and potpourri.

Favorite Roses
‘Alchymist’ has fragrant, old-fashioned double flowers in buff, yellow, peach, and orange tones. The flowers are quartered—that is, the central petals are divided into four sections, a common trait in old garden roses. Introduced in 1956, it is long-blooming (a month or more) and hardy, and it can climb a trellis or pillar with 10 to 15-foot-long canes.

‘Boule de Neige,’ French for “snowball,” is an 1867 introduction whose crimson buds open to round, white blooms. It is a Bourbon, a class of old rose with large, highly perfumed flowers that rebloom later in the season. Unlike other Bourbons, this hardy, upright shrub resists black spot.

‘Cardinal de Richelieu’ has pink buds that open to puffs of deep purple. This 1840 introduction is a gallica, the class of rose considered the forerunner of the other old roses—and modern roses, too.

‘Charles de Mills,’ another gallica, possibly from the seventeenth century, is a profuse bloomer with rumpled and flattened petals that are crimson, maroon, purple, and violet.

‘Constance Spry’ honors the great English flower arranger (1886–1960), who loved using old roses in her designs. It produces huge, peony-like, pink blooms with the strong myrrh scent of an antique, but it is actually the first English rose introduced by breeder David Austin in 1961.

‘Dainty Bess,’ a vestige of the 1920s fad for large-flowered single roses, has sprays of lightly fragrant blossoms with prominent maroon stamens and five ruffled petals. It is a strong everbloomer with leathery, disease-resistant foliage.

‘Pierre de Ronsard,’ also known as ‘Eden Rose,’ was introduced in 1987. Its fragrant, cabbagelike flowers begin as white globes, then unfurl and deepen to shell pink.

‘Ferdinand Pichard’ has large, fragrant, cupped, double, pale-pink flowers striped with crimson on short stems. This 1921 introduction, a good repeat bloomer, is a hybrid perpetual, a class of rose popularized in the Victorian era.

‘Gertrude Jekyll,’ a 1986 David Austin English rose, has surprising

‘Königin von Dänemark,’ dated 1826, bears a mass of quartered, pale-pink blooms with a darker center. Their color deepens with age. It is a disease-resistant, hardy rose classified as an alba, a kind of old rose that typically grows to a large size.

‘Louise Odier,’ a Bourbon dated 1851, has dense, cupped, pink flowers with a strong perfume. It is a tall, disease-resistant plant that blooms repeatedly.

‘Madame Alfred Carrière’ bears clusters of fragrant, gardenia-like, double, white flowers. It is a noisette, a class of old roses developed in 1800 in Charleston, South Carolina. A strong repeat-blooming climber, it is fast growing but marginally hardy in cold-winter areas.

‘Madame de la Rôche-Lambert,’ a hybrid moss rose dated 1851, has very fragrant carmine blooms with hints of lavender and neatly arranged concentric petals. Moss roses are so named because their buds are coated with what looks like moss but is actually a pine-scented sticky growth.

‘Madame Louis Lévêque, ’ a hybrid moss, bears globular, double, pale-pink flowers tinged with lavender on very thorny, upright, arching canes. Introduced in 1898, it is a sweet-scented rose with a good repeating habit.

‘Mrs. Pierre S. Du Pont,’ a forty-petaled golden-yellow rose introduced in 1929, bears large, fragrant blooms on a disease-resistant shrub with glossy foliage.

‘Pearlie Mae,’ a grandiflora rose named for singer Pearl Bailey, has a light apple scent. The tight, deep-pink buds open into golden-yellow flowers flushed with salmon. This hardy, disease-resistant plant produces repeat blooms that are good for cutting.

‘The Reeve,’ a 1979 David Austin English rose, has petals that curve inward and form fragrant, globe-shaped, dusky-pink flowers. The stems tend to arch gracefully.

‘Shropshire Lass,’ an English rose introduced by David Austin in 1968 and named to honor his home county, has fragrant, nearly single, blush-pink flowers that fade to white. The shrub is disease resistant but blooms only once per season.

‘Sweet Juliet,’ a 1989 David Austin English rose, has apricot flowers with a strong tea-rose perfume. It is robust and may sprout so plentifully from the base that if all the canes are left to develop, the flowers will not open fully.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

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[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

[lodwick]

Jesus!

The pus is ripe.

If only he could shift it lower.

[Fintan]

The most beautiful Rose ever...

 

[mountaineer]

That shot of Hillary reminds me of the quote I posted in the most recent thread, regarding the "clowny" shape of her face.

[mountaineer]

By the way, this cheesy online shop has a catalog that makes me drool.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Thanks for showing me my shop. I will advertize my fabulous cheese accordingly.

Now for my rant.

FAMILY RECIPES!!!!

Have you ever had something completely and utterly delicious, and you asked the friend for a recipe and they said " I am sorry, it's a family recipe, I can't give it out".

GIVE ME A BREAK!!!! So why should only your family have the recipe? Isn't it a bigger compliment to your cooking for other people to want to repeat the culinary delight in the own homes?

So for what purpose does it serve to not let out a recipe? I have even asked restaurants for their recipes, and they have given it to me with no hesitation. ( I have an excellent cream of tomatoe soup recipe, serves 100)

The recipe in question is a northern Italian lasagne. It was out of this world. Nothing like regular lasagne. The recipe is my friend's dead uncle's recipe.

I told her that it would be an honor to her uncle to give out his wonderful lasagne recipe.

So far, no recipe has been forthcoming.

[mountaineer]

A lot of so-called "family recipes" are straight out of the Betty Crocker cookbook or found in the food section of the newspaper, too. Sheesh.

[pubmom]

Great food is meant to be shared. Did your friend sign something in blood that prevents her from divulging the recipe? ;)

Speaking of food, I purchased Nigella's 'Forever Summer' yesterday, it looks fabulous. While there, one copy of 'Lying History' was mysteriously relocated behind some other books. I have no idea how such a dreadful thing could have happened. :)

[Iowa Granny]

Nice work. I, too, have been participating in this little exercise.

[Teacup]

Haven't the Clinton's moved on yet? Every time I turn on the TV, there she is.

Good grief, she's even at a Wal-Mart. I bet the withch has never been in a Wal-Mart until now. Anything for money, huh?

[Teacup]

I think it's funny that the two best sellers are "Lying History" by the Witch, and Harry Potter about witch craft.

[mountaineer]

Is there a difference?

[mountaineer]

Recipes? You want recipes?

BILL Clinton has come up with another way to raise cash for his Clinton Library in Arkansas — a cookbook. The former prez has asked A-list pals to contribute their favorite recipes, Ireland's Star newspaper reports. U2 frontman Bono has kicked in his favorite dish for the book, due out in August. It also contains recipes from the Clintons themselves [No spinach dip, we presume] and former administration members. A spokesman noted that the William Jefferson Clinton Library Foundation "is involved in combating HIV/AIDS, promoting citizen service and other causes" - not just the library. Page Six

[mountaineer]

LET IT be known how focused Hillary Clinton is. The day her book came out — but the very day - she had a meeting, a full sit-down interview, with the two daughters of the late Leon Klinghoffer. Remember how this elderly wheelchair bound American Jew was killed? Thrown overboard from his Italian cruise ship the Achille Lauro? Remember when terrorist Abu Abbas was named as the mastermind who'd hijacked it, murdered Klinghoffer and dumped him in the sea? In an effort to get the fullest handle on terrorism, Hillary and the two daughters had a substantive talk. The very day her book came out. Cindy Adams

That would be the same Hillary Clinton who had her husband pardon terrorists, and whose co-president's ineptness and entanglements precluded him from taking any decisive action against terrorism throughout his two terms.

[mountaineer]

Joanne Riva started the night dining out with her husband, Frank, toasting their silver wedding anniversary. But within hours, she ended the celebration and the Long Island couple's stormy 25-year marriage when she drunkenly ran him over with the family car late Saturday, police said.

The couple's final fight left Frank Riva, 49, dead in the street in front of the Holbrook home that the Rivas shared with their two adult children, cops said. Police said the couple had argued after returning from dinner. Joanne Riva's attorney said she ran out of their Winwood Lane home and got into the car after her husband attacked her. rest of story

[Timeout]

If y'all can stomach it, visit this thread I put up about unsavory lawyers in D.C. taking outrageous advantage of elderly people under their "guardianship". Warning: Truly revolting!

Rights and Funds Can Evaporate Quickly
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929739/posts

[interesting sidebar: I had titled the thread "Even I never knew lawyers could sink THIS low!". FR retitled it...did you know they do that?]

[mountaineer]

Don't know what to make of this:

One of Norway's most highly profiled and right-wing politicians, Carl I Hagen, is urging the nomination of former US President Bill Clinton as new NATO boss. Norwegian officials have given up hopes that their own defense minister, Kristin Krohn Devold, will get the job.

Hagen, who heads Norway's Progress Party, told newspaper Aftenposten Monday that NATO's new leader should have international authority, respect and experience. He thinks Clinton, therefore, is the perfect choice.

"There are plenty of people who can be leader of a secretariat in Brussels, but that's not what NATO needs right now," Hagen told Aftenposten, adding that he thinks NATO needs a "political heavyweight" to succeed Lord Robertson as general secretary.

"NATO is in a very difficult situation, with a deep conflict between the US and the major EU countries Germany and France," Hagen said. The new general secretary, he said, must be able to bring NATO members together again.

Clinton, he notes, "has good and close contact with many of Europe's leaders, and he enjoys considerable respect. He can be the bridge-builder the alliance needs."

Hagen added that it's especially important for Norway that the conflict within NATO be eased. "Therefore Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik should propose Bill Clinton as a candidate," he said.

He denied his proposal was meant to undermine Bondevik's own efforts to push Norwegian Defense Minister Kristin Krohn Devold's candidacy. "If NATO decides the alliance should have a general secretary who will first and foremost be a secretariat leader, I haven't said she's unqualified," he said.

Hagen also said he thinks it would be difficult for US President George W Bush to oppose Clinton if a majority of European countries want him.

Devold's informal candidacy, meanwhile, doesn't appear to have generated much support from other European leaders. One source told Aftenposten that while Devold is viewed as a having done a good job for Norway, "no one has said, 'yeah, this is the candidate we need.'"

Other strikes against her are her relatively limited international experience and the fact that Norway, while a member of NATO, is not a member of the EU.
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=565295

[Endeavor]

RE:family recipes.

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. It must be a "Yankee" thing. We Southerners are always happy to give away family recipes - we consider the request the highest form of flattery (because arrogantly, but of course always, "genteelly" we know we serve the best food going.)

Tell your "friend" to pony up.

[Endeavor]

Yes, that would be the same Hillary Clinton. What a self-serving b*tch. I'll believe that her photo ops with terrorist victims are legitimate when she meets with Ted Olson.