Deborah, Yes, all the roses you have listed are eligible to be exhibited. You are correct none of the roses listed appeared in past or present ARS publications. The six you mention are but a few of (by a rough estimate) of thousands of roses missing from the 2004 official "AEN" publication. The problem is that the CRL contains Roses in Commerce and Rose Registration updates. When a rose is listed, it may have a "NR" (not registered with "IRAR") or the new CRL notation, indicating rose introductions have not appeared in any ARS publications. When a rose first appears in the "CRL" with the "NR" notation, the following year it generally has an approved exhibition name "AEN". The problem is ARS does not post these "NR" changes in the next AEN publication, in the "Rose Registration" column of the American Rose or the handbook. This is preciously one reason why ARS should reinstate the Combined Rose List "CRL", as an official recognized publication to verify an "AEN" as the ARS Board approved in 1999. (Not a "temporary AEN" until the name is listed in one of the ARS publications). As it is stated, if there is a difference between what is in the "CRL" and the ARS "AEN" publication, ARS publication will prevail. Posted on the GW on 5-12-04 was a listing of all roses in the 2004 "Combined Rose List" having the new CRL notation, indicating these roses have not appeared in any publications of the American Rose Society. This only covers roses with the CRL notation. There are roses in all the back issues of the "CRL" with "NR" notation that need researching, to find out if the "NR" listing have been changed and now have a "AEN" designation, like all the roses Deborah had on her list. All of Deborahs roses started out with this "NR" notation, but were changed the following year having an "AEN". In the meantime her roses will be included in the next monthly posting on the GW of new or any corrections to the new 2004 "AEN". It may be to everyone benefit, if judges and exhibitors check their rose against what is in the 2004 "AEN" for missing or incorrect information. E-mail this information to me, and it will be on the next GW post. Waiting until the new 2005 "AEN" is published to share this valuable information, is doing an injustice to all exhibitors. The Combined Rose List is not a source for verifying AENs; it is only to be used as a reference if a rose is not listed in an ARS publication, but considered having a temporary "AEN". And as ARS stated, the handbook is no longer a reliable ARS publication as it previously was for verifying AENs. (See the post on new judges manual arrives). 5-13-04 Ronald Schwerdt

How much does it cost to show a horse, or to shoe one, Cathy? Every horse show has entry fees, it regularly cost me $35-$50 to enter barrel racing events. Shoes? That depends. Just a clip and file costs $20, or $5 a foot. Cope's shoes will need to be removed, the hoof clipped and filed and the shoes replaced in about 2 months. That will cost me $45 ($20 for the clip and file and $25 to reset the shoes). This particular episode cost me $85 because I had to buy the shoes. Fortunately, they can be reused several times as long as he doesn't lose one, also known as "throwing a shoe". I have my horses done usually 4 times a year at $20 a visit, not so bad. With Cope's health issue right now, Ron will come every two months instead, until we can be sure he's alright. I will admit that farrier services are very cheap here, considering that Ron drives from farm to farm and the cost of gas. I know anywhere around cities or big "horse areas" the shoes I got Copenhagen would cost closer to $150. Annie

Rebecca, Lettuce transplants very easily. To ensure I have no problems, I always start the seedlings in paper cups I can plant (I use the tiny Dixie cups sold to go in bathroom cup dispensers) or in peat pellets. That way, no matter the age of the plants, I can transplant them with no real root disturbance. Lettuce seedlings generally need more light that the light shelf can get them and will get leggy fast, so as soon as the first tiny sprouts appear, I move them outdoors. I can carry then indoors, if needed, but since they're pretty cold-tolerant, I really don't need to carry them in very much if at all. Mary, Sow the seed slightly later than OSU recommends and you'll be fine. Carrot seed is slow to germinate in cold soils, but much quicker in warmer soils so the trade-off when planting later is minimal. It can take carrot seeds up to 30 days to germinate in cool soils but significantly less in warm soils, so you can get seedlings up before the end of March from a mid-March sowing or you can get seedlings up before the end of March from an early-March sowing. The difference is that the extended amount of time the seeds spend in cool soil between early and late March increases the chance something will happen to the seeds. Honestly, carrots are fairly easy if you sow them when the soil is a bit warmer. Look at how easily the closely related Queen Ann's Lace self-sows itself around by the hundreds and thousands of plants everywhere every year. Kim, I occasionally have harvested carrots even later than that---well into July in one year without an appreciable loss in quality, but it must have been a fairly wet, cool summer. Dawn

jasdip, that's why I cook for Emma. Majority of dry and wet foods are full of carp. And I have no trouble giving her the same dinner we eat. I am good friends with a longtime breeder of Skye terriers. Now in her upper 80's, she started her kennel before commercial foods were available. They came about during WW2 as kennel biscuits for army dogs. When dogs were fed the same as people, they rarely saw cancers. Now, most dogs pass from it. Olga came to the US when the Czech government was invaded by the Soviet Union. She, her husband and 4 dogs left. Once in the US, they would not allow the dogs in on the ground that they came from a communist country. Yup, commie dogs! Thankfully another breeder had two of her dog and pups with the line in them so she was able to start over. the original 4 went up to Canada. She still has the best dogs and the line continues all over the world.