DEXTER STUDY GROUP 2018 to Present
Regarding certain Dexter names not shown below, as best we can determine,
Black Cherry = Burgundy Cherry; Cherry Red and Dexter's Red = Wissahickon; Arlequin, Harlequin, and Dexter's Arlequin = Dexter's Harlequin; Red House = Dorothy Russell; and at least some plants circulating under the name Charlestown are identical to Sandwich Appleblossom, the registered name of a Dexter formerly known by the unregistered name of Appleblossom.
John Wister is closely akin or identical to Janet Blair (see note 2).
Dexter's Salmon (not to be confused with "Dexter, Salmon" sold at the 1980 ARS Convention in Massachusetts), Edwin Beinecke, Emissary, Everitt Miller, Forestdale, and Mrs. H.B. Gardner appear to have vanished.
The unregistered "Dexter's Pink" (reportedly identical to a clone known as Vossberg's Pink #1 and SAE #1) should not be confused with an azalea registered under this name. Skyglow and Wellfleet (and also possibly Chatham and Sagamore Bayside) were not Dexter hybrids but rather hybrids acquired by Dexter from the nearby Farquhar Nursery.
Non-Dexter hybrids have been registered under the names of Pink Satin and Zanzibar; the Dexters bearing these names may be registered in the future as "Dexter's Pink Satin" and "Dexter's Zanzibar".
A few Dexters named before 1980 as well as a good many named since then have not been included on this list, the primary source for which is Hybrids and Hybridizers (P.A. Livingston and F.H. West, eds.; Newtown Square, Pennsylvania; Harrowood Books; 1978).
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Asheville Dexters on the Charles Dexter Owen estate, visited in 2024.
Original Dexters were shipped from Massachusetts to Asheville by Charles Owen Dexter to the home of his cousin Charles Dexter Owen, founder of the Beacon Blanket Company, the world's largest blanket manufacturer relocated from New Bedford Mass. to Swannanoa, NC, over 80 years ago. The home and garden are now owned by Charles Dexter Owen III, a sustaining member of the ARS.
Dexter Study Group, Southeastern Chapter, 1982
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