Depends on what type. The Dog roses are beautiful and make the best rose hip tea you have ever seen, then I see a bunch of beautful red ones that are so very fragrant I can't believe it. One of the perks of cemetery tramping is carrying some baggies with wet paper towels and some snippers. I take cuttings when I spot good ones. And I collect seeds if Im at the right time. I have some that can be traced from early on- like my Washburn hollyhocks, decendants of the Washburns who came to Texas in 1820's ( 1827 if I recall) and probably in a ladys pocket the seeds settled here too. The first hollyhocks to be here. Others came by pocket for curing ~ like mullein and some by accident like the dandilions. All have fabulous histories and folklore; that mullein brings both a smile to me when it blooms and a tear too, it was called Confederate shoe because their shoes got so bad that it was used to line the shoe bottoms and around the edges to ease the rubbed painful skin and give some comfort. It is used for a lot of things but that is the one that makes it special. I'm a sucker for 'Confederate' anything! We have many herbs loose in the wild and I lost the cuttings I took of a wild white wisteria in NE Fannin. I will have to hunt down the kind Mennonite who wondered what I was doing in the bar ditches with a shovel! She showed it to me, it was an old one but not on a housesite as many plants I find. I told her I was heading for a cemetery. Aside from the horror on her face she stayed still long enough to find out what I was really doing. I had spotted some washed seedlings of bee balm in a deep rosy color and was getting them from the mud in a ditch. And you thought tombstones the only pull to do the cemetery readings ! :) Susan (I'm the founder of the Texoma Herb & Old Rose Society, thats why my Roots & Thyme byline on my emails) I will be teaching simpling ( home medicine in the old old days )come next spring at the local museums and have been doing a lot of research on the subject of this area's pickings and herbal history. I study a lot of useless stuff~ "J. Philip Adams" wrote: > > ABout the roses, do the roses in Fannin still have a good aroma or are they > like the junk down here NO aroma? > Thanks > John Philip Adams > Baytown > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Darrell Hart" <darrellhart@attbi.com> > To: <TXFANNIN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 7:23 PM > Subject: Re: [TXFANNIN-L] Cemeteries and --Re:Fannin County Genealogical > Society meeting notice >

Thanks Susan JPA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hawkins" <hawkins@texoma.net> To: <TXFANNIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 9:08 AM Subject: [TXFANNIN-L] Re:Cemeteries and --Re:Fannin County Genealogical Society meeting notice > Depends on what type. The Dog roses are beautiful and make the best rose > hip tea you have ever seen, then I see a bunch of beautful red ones that > are so very fragrant I can't believe it. One of the perks of cemetery > tramping is carrying some baggies with wet paper towels and some > snippers. I take cuttings when I spot good ones. And I collect seeds if > Im at the right time. I have some that can be traced from early on- like > my Washburn hollyhocks, decendants of the Washburns who came to Texas in > 1820's ( 1827 if I recall) and probably in a ladys pocket the seeds > settled here too. The first hollyhocks to be here. > Others came by pocket for curing ~ like mullein and some by accident > like the dandilions. All have fabulous histories and folklore; that > mullein brings both a smile to me when it blooms and a tear too, it was > called Confederate shoe because their shoes got so bad that it was used > to line the shoe bottoms and around the edges to ease the rubbed painful > skin and give some comfort. It is used for a lot of things but that is > the one that makes it special. I'm a sucker for 'Confederate' anything! > We have many herbs loose in the wild and I lost the cuttings I took of > a wild white wisteria in NE Fannin. I will have to hunt down the kind > Mennonite who wondered what I was doing in the bar ditches with a > shovel! She showed it to me, it was an old one but not on a housesite as > many plants I find. > I told her I was heading for a cemetery. Aside from the horror on > her face she stayed still long enough to find out what I was really > doing. I had spotted some washed seedlings of bee balm in a deep rosy > color and was getting them from the mud in a ditch. > And you thought tombstones the only pull to do the cemetery readings ! > :) > Susan > (I'm the founder of the Texoma Herb & Old Rose Society, thats why my > Roots & Thyme byline on my emails) I will be teaching simpling ( home > medicine in the old old days )come next spring at the local museums and > have been doing a lot of research on the subject of this area's pickings > and herbal history. > I study a lot of useless stuff~ > > "J. Philip Adams" wrote: > > > > ABout the roses, do the roses in Fannin still have a good aroma or are they > > like the junk down here NO aroma? > > Thanks > > John Philip Adams > > Baytown > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Darrell Hart" <darrellhart@attbi.com> > > To: <TXFANNIN-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 7:23 PM > > Subject: Re: [TXFANNIN-L] Cemeteries and --Re:Fannin County Genealogical > > Society meeting notice > > > > > ==== TXFANNIN Mailing List ==== > Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall! >