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"Agnes Smith" rose Reviews & Comments
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One characteristic I have noticed about 'Agnes Smith' is that it readily sets normal-sized hips but each hip contains only a few seeds, sometimes even none. It is an excellent tea rose and should be grown more widely. The flowers can be quite large at times.
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Looking at the photos here, the buds for "James Watson" seem to be quite glandular, whereas the buds for "Agnes Smith" look smooth, with slightly longer sepals (at least in the March 2008 photo from Jane Z).
If this is a consistent difference, I wonder if they are the same variety?
Virginia
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Initial post
13 DEC 15 by
 Spotto
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Available from - Roses and Friends Nursery
rosesandf@bigpond.com
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Jane - the foliage of "James Watson No. 1" seems more round, than the long leaves of "Agnes Smith".
Sometime, would you upload a photo of the mature leaf of the two plants, side by side?
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#1 of 4 posted
23 SEP 14 by
Jane Z
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done, + a blooms comparison, have only put them in JW1 file so far.
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Looking very, very similar.
We'll merge the files as you requested recently.
All references and photos are clearly labelled with their study names, in case we need to separate the files later.
We have an 1893 grave date for "Agnes Smith".
Do you have grave dates for the Watson mausoleum?
Of the three roses there, "James Watson No. 3" may (or may not be) be 'Lady Ursula, 1909.
What was the third rose?
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23 SEP 14 by
Jane Z
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1907 was 1 date, need to go back to notes. 3rd rose (no 2) was prob an HT, never managed to propagate it, have 1 bud photo only, perhaps planted much later.
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