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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2> Our NH State Forest
Nursery is currently selling "Rosa rugosa" to NH residents for planting in the
spring of 2008. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2> I know the plant would
be invasive (and, no doubt, already is) on our sea coast. However, last
year I tangled with the NH State Cooperative Extension Service when
they included "Rosa rugosa" as an excellent plant for New Hampshire in one of
their books. They did not include a disclaimer that the plant was possibly
invasive for the NH sea coast. The authors of the extension book that included
"Rosa rugosa" emailed me that we had too small a sea coast to be
concerned.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2> My bent is that the
plant will eventually become invasive in New Hampshire, whatever the size of our
sea shore. I think that even though we have a small sea shore, that it merits
protection. My feeling is that our state forest nursery shouldn't sell
"Rosa rugosa."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2> Am I off target here?
Am I concerned for no reason?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2> I have found
information about the plant's invasiveness in NYC (the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
has it listed on their "The Worst Plants for the New York Metropolitan Area" and
CT (many sites), but the NH County Extension forester I talked to this week
wants more information.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2> I have googled "Rosa
rugosa" with little success. What I need is added examples of the plant's
potential damage to New Hampshire.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2> Does anyone have
suggestions? Thank you. I'd like to know how much effort I should put into this
issue.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Grace Lilly<BR><A
href="mailto:pembrokes@ne.rr.com">pembrokes@ne.rr.com</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>