If it repeat blooms, take a look at some of the roses called Eutin. Also Blaze. Or Blaze improved.

I think it was a milk bowl for a hand cranked cream separator. See the link below to see a similar item and its relation to the other parts. The round hole at the bottom would have been fitted with a spigot to control the flow of raw milk into the separator. You may have to manually copy this link to your url address bar. Its 'link' status was lost in the copy process. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://cricketcreekfarm.com/files/2012/02/de-Laval-cream-separator.jpg&imgrefurl=http://cricketcreekfarm.com/2012/02/07/emmet-restores-the-cream-separator/&h=1000&w=717&sz=279&tbnid=YU6mG32zt-wMCM:&tbnh=91&tbnw=65&zoom=1&usg=__r1QfYf5rxP1lPH3ZEn5YXk27HbE=&docid=OkVjDmCd2R3hyM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Rpx0Uo_ROamqsATr3oGoBQ&ved=0CGQQ9QEwBQ

AM, I have an Excalibur, it's a great machine. I use mine for jerky, for dehydrating garlic, chopped onions and herbs, for apple slices, for making "gummy worms" out of zucchini. I dehydrate zucchini for soup too, and Elery dries a lot of hot peppers. We used a mix of dried peppers and herbs and made our own chili powder this year and if I get a bunch of morel mushrooms or even find mushrooms on sale, I'll stick them into the dehydrator to keep on hand. I threw some morels into the food processor after they were dried, ground them to powder and added salt for a "morel salt". It added a nice flavor when I didn't really have enough mushrooms to make anything else. I've not been happy with a couple of items. Like you, I've found that bananas just stay chewy and sticky and no one in my family will eat them, the consistency is just bad. I've dried tomatoes for tomato powder but they never seem to get crisp enough to powder. If I put them in the food processor and "powder" them, they just solidify into one giant brick. Ugh. A waste of time and product for me. Dried watermelon wasn't exactly my best idea either, LOL. The kids love this "zucchini candy", though, and no one ever knows that it's zucchini. I got the recipe from Linda Lou at Harvest and it's not exactly healthy with sugar and koolaid, but it's probably better than gummy worms. BASIC ZUCCHINI CANDY FRUIT 10 cups peeled diced zucchini 1/2 inch cubes or "worms" 3 cups water 2 pkgs. unsweetened Koolaid 2 1/2 cups sugar Peel zucchini,cut in half, removing seeds. Dice in cubes. Mix the liquid syrup together. Add zucchini. Bring to a boil and them simmer for 25 min. Drain. Put on dehydrator trays. Dry 14 hours at 125 degrees. Turn pieces over and dry another 4 hours. This will feel dry and not sticky when done. Store in jars or other tightly sealed containers.If you dip in sugar when you turn them, they will be more like "gum drops" on the outside. PINEAPPLE CANDY FRUIT You can do the same thing with the zucchini but use : 48 oz. pineapple juice 2 T. pineapple extract 2 1/2 cups sugar 1/4 cup lemon juice BLUEBERRY CANDY FRUIT 10 cups peeled, cut zucchini, about 1/2 inch cubes 1 -16 oz. can wild blueberries ( mashed and strained through cheese cloth) 1 qt. fresh blueberries ( mashed and strained through cheese cloth) 1 cup water 2 cups sugar 1/2 cup lemon juice ( optional) Follow the directions for basic recipe. HINTS: When turning your zucchini, dip in sugar to coat them, making them more like "gumdrops". Or you could make fruit leather, kids always seem to like those. Annie This post was edited by annie1992 on Sun, Jan 26, 14 at 19:23

Probably an R. ponticum hybrid, maybe R. x superponticum*. Almost certainly got there as root stock for another rhododendron that has since died. This could explain why the existing top is tiny for its age, with perhaps there even being a history of somebody gardening the site cutting this kind off in the past. If you pull the Irish ivy back and look at the base of the shrub you may see an old stump with these comparatively young branches coming out of it. Up here grafted combinations using similar stocks are very common in plantings dating back to the period when garden hybrid rhododendrons were grafted instead of raised from cuttings, sold on their own roots. As with other grafted decorative trees and shrubs such as Japanese flowering cherries occupants of properties where these are present often leave sprouts coming from root stocks to grow up and elbow or even replace the scions which were what was chosen and purchased originally. *Complex garden hybrid dating from the 19th century and developed using intentional crosses between R. catawbiense, R. maximum and/or R. macrophyllum and R. ponticum. It differs from the true R. ponticum in being hardier and more vigorous, with a wider range of flower color from rose pink to deep purple.