In the 2000s, Felicitas Svejda wrote and collected a number of documents to a produce a summary of her hybridization work on roses and other shrubs. This summary also includes all roses commercialized after her retirement from the Experimental Farm in Ottawa.
Subseries JBM 10, S5, SS6 includes a document entitled Canadian Explorer Roses that gathers essential data on 25 roses of the Explorer series. Going through the document, we see that all the rose bushes do not bear the name of an explorer. This is the case of roses 'AC Marie -Victorin', 'De Montarville'and 'William Booth'. These exceptions occurred after money being donated to bend the rules in naming. Mrs. Svejda has also recorded the information on the origin of names in the subseries JBM 10, S5, SS4 that can be viewed below.

JBM 10 , S5
Explorer roses. - 2000-2008. - 3 cm of textual records.

Scope and content:
Series on the series of Explorer roses containing a detailed list of cultivars, the family tree of each, the list of selected seedlings and cultivars used in the breeding program and the origin of names. The series also includes data on the Weigela, the Philadelphus and the Forsythia. Most documents date from the 2000s and some of the active research period for Felicitas Svejda.


Series contains the following subseries: SS1 - Cultivars releases; SS2 - Family trees; SS3 - Selected seedlings for hybridization; SS4 - Origin of names; SS5 - Miscellaneous notes; SS6 - Summary of the research process.

Notes:

Source of the formal title proper: Original English title.

Condition: Fragile documents. Some pages of typed documents and manuscripts contained in a blue ring binder include glued paper strips with data corrections.

Classification: Original classification of the author.

Language of documents: The documents are in English.

Location: A media - CL7 - T4.