Frances Ropes

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http://www.paghat.com/hostafranceswilliams.html

'Frances Williams'
Siebold Plantain Lily

The species is named for the German physician & botanist Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796‚1866) who sparked general interest in hostals in the early 1800s after he returned to the Netherlands with several specimens he had collected over time during his long stint as a physician in Nagasaki for the Dutch East India Company.

The cultivar is named for Mrs. Frances Ropes Williams (1883-1969) of Winchester Massachusetts, who spotted & quickly obtained the first known specimen when it appeared in a field of H. sieboldiana at Bristol Nurseries in Connecticutt, in 1936.

Mrs. Williams was a devoted hosta enthusiast & founding member of the American Hosta Society; she bred & named many introductions developed in her private garden.


http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1994/garden-1005.html

Garden nestled among buildings is hidden treasure

October 5, 1994

Renovations have recently been completed on the President's Court, a collection of hosta plants and other greenery nestled in the enclosure surrounded by Buildings 3, 10. 11 and 13.

Eighty percent of the concrete walkways surrounding the square garden have just been repaired. A dirt path that went through the garden from one corner to the other has also been replaced with a blue stone walkway.

The garden is home to at least 10 different types of hosta plants, identifiable by their large tropical-looking leaves. They were a gift from Frances Ropes Williams, a 1904 MIT graduate and avid gardener. According to Norman Magnuson, route supervisor in grounds services, she bred different types of the plants she enjoyed and named them in memory of her sister, Constance Williams Hosta.


Author LinkRopes, Frances.
Title LinkA Marine Park for Salem Neck / by Frances Ropes.
Availability All items
Location Institute Archives - Noncirculating Collection 3 | THESIS Thesis Arch 1904 B.S.

Published 1904.
Description 15 leaves ; 30 cm.
Format Book BK
Thesis Note Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1904.
Local Note Accompanying drawings held by MIT Museum.
Title Note Title in the MIT graduation program: Design for a Marine Park for Salem Neck.

Frances married Stillman Pierce Williams on 22 Nov 1906 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Stillman (son of Robert Breck Williams, Jr. and Mary E Pierce) was born in Abt. 1875 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; died in Bet. 1921 and 1929. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louisa married George Edward Valley Jr on 19 Jul 1941. George (son of George Edward Valley, Sr. and Edith Ringgold Cummins) was born on 05 Sep 1913 in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States; died on 20 Oct 1999 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Nakamoto. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]