[AT] Red tractor day, now hedge

[Thomas O Mehrkam]

Looks almost the same as the Macartney Rose.  The flower is white. I 
think the Mutifloural flowers are a little smaller as are the thorns. 
It would be somewhat difficult to tell the to apart from the photographs.

On 1/4/2015 2:26 PM, Herb Metz wrote:
> Multifloral Rose was tough stuff.  If memory serves, it was introduced in
> did-late 40's and within half dozen years farmers began ripping it out.
> Provided shelter for wildlife, but very invasive. Herb
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2015 3:00 PM
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> Subject: Re: [AT] Red tractor day
>
> Multifloral Rose is what was on the neighboring farm turned subdivision. I
> remember now that’s what my dad and uncle called it. Definitely nasty stuff!
> We just stayed away from it when we rented that farm. It was after the farm
> got turned into a subdivision that I found out how hard it was to tame.
> Thank goodness none of it ever wound up on this side of the highway!
>
> John Hall
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Vinson
> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2015 11:19 AM
> To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
> Subject: Re: [AT] Red tractor day
>
>> The Rose hedge sounds like Macartney Rose.
>> ...deadly on bicycle and probably tractor tires.
>> It was used for fence rows before barbed wire.
>> http://www.texasinvasives.org/plant_database/detail.php?symbol=ROBR
>
> Multifloral Rose was likewise a common choice for hedge rows, at least on my
> dad's farm in northeast Ohio, and likewise forms a very dense thorny mass.
> Over the span of years when I was growing up we laboriously removed every
> trace of it, except of course that you never really get every trace and to
> this day the stuff will pop up in the pastures and tillable fields if my dad
> doesn't mow them.
>
>
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