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The Noel Pritchard Memorial Lecture*
The first 'coloured' variant of the native Rosa spinosissima was found in Scotland in the 17th century. By the early 19th century, hundreds of single, semi-double and double 'Scots Roses' had beenraised in a wide range of colours.
These charming roses becameparticularly popular in Britain and Nordic countries but went out offashion by about 1840. However, iconic Scots Roses were carried across the world by Scottish and Nordic immigrants to North America, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere. Their internationalheritage is now being re-discovered, but surviving old Scots Rose cultivars, and the habitats of wild Rosa spinosissima are under threat.
*Noel Pritchard was curator of the Cruickshank Botanic Garden from 1964 to 1985 and a fund was set up after his death in 2004 to support this annual memorial lecture.
- Speaker
- Peter Boyd
- Hosted by
- Peter Boyd
- Venue
- Zoology Lecture Theatre