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    President's Message

Aire-La-Ville, Switzerland
April. 2008

Dear Rosarian Friends,

In the northern hemisphere we are eagerly waiting for spring to arrive with its beautiful shades of green. On the contrary, in the southern hemisphere, autumn and winter are just around the corner. Isn't this just the charm and mystery of nature's wonders?

I am very pleased to announce that the new year got off to a good start. Our Federation has another member country since the month of March - the Hungarian Rose Society. I would like to extend my warmest greetings to our latest addition, thus making 39 member countries in the WFRS. The Rose Culture Institute of Sakura City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan has been accepted as an Associate Member which will enable ties to be strengthened between amateurs and professionals.

News is also very good from Vancouver. The program is on the website www.worldrose-vancouver2009.com and 12,000 post cards have been sent to national societies to announce the event. The first inscriptions have been registered and several societies are in the process of making plans to ensure that as many delegates as possible will travel to Canada in June 2009.

From Adelaide, the news is also excellent. This regional convention is attracting many rose enthusiasts from around the world and will therefore be an important meeting in the year 2008.

For their 125th anniversary from 19-22 June 2008, the German Rose Society is preparing a wonderful program which will allow participants to listen to very interesting lectures and visit some beautiful gardens.

On the administrative side, I have sent out to all presidents of our rose societies my intermediary report, after my first 18 months' term of office. It is my wish that this report should be considered in a positive, constructive and innovative light, which will enable us to orientate our various discussions during Council Committee meetings in Vancouver. I look forward to receiving comments, remarks, suggestions and proposals from national presidents. It is thanks to contacts and discussions that we will be able to come to the right decisions when the time comes.

I would like to terminate this short message by thanking you for all your work in the name of and for the rose. I request you to do your utmost to make your society as well known as possible, so that more rose and garden enthusiasts will join our ranks.

Yours sincerely,

Dr Gérald Meylan