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Marie d'Orléans  rose photo courtesy of member CybeRose
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The Garden 53: 84-85 (Jan 29, 1898)
PLATE 1155
ROSE MARIE D'ORLEANS

We do not think that among the little-known Roses of the English garden there is one more worthy of a place than this. We got it some seven or eight years ago, and every year since it has been a source of great pleasure from its hardy, vigorous growth and masses of large flowers, which are best of all perhaps in autumn. Those who have it and treat it fairly well will not see a flowerless bush in autumn, but will find it, perhaps, the handsomest plant in the garden. We bought it in the usual way Worked on the seedling Dog Rose, but in planting it placed the union of the Rose and Dog Rose just below the earth, so probably—we cannot say certainly—the plant rooted itself, as it very often throws out vigorous flower-laden shoots from the bottom in the autumn, a habit of Tea Roses on their own roots. As to cultivation, it has grown in deep, heavy loam for seven years, but no manure on the surface during that time has ever been given; in fact, it has been growing all the time out of a mass of mossy Rockfoil (Saxifraga hypnoides). This covers the surface of the bed winter and summer, and may have done a little harm; but covering the surface of the ground with a light rooting living mulch like that in very hot weather prevents the loss of wate r from the ground, and the foliage of the Rose is just sufficient to shade the moss a little and save from the exhausting effects of the sun this cool mountain plant. In some way we have come to call this Rose Princesse Marie d'Orleans, but believe its true name is Marie d’Orlcans. It was raised by MM. Nabonnand at Golfe-Juan, and if these raisers had only given us what we think are among the most precious Roses of all—Georges Nabormand, Marie d'Orleans, and Papa Gontier—they would be entitled to the gratitude of all English Rose growers, for these three Roses suit our climate admirably and cannot be left out of any beautiful Rose garden. They not only grow vigorously, but, blooming from Rose time as we know it, carry us through with noble Roses the fair autumn days, and in
mild districts may even gladden the coming of winter with their buds and bloom.

We append here the raisers’ description, which we think quite a just and modest account of such a Rose:

Large, full, fragrant flowers of a deep bright rose colour. The buds are long and of a brilliant carmine. The wood is stong, the spines large and of a reddish colour; foliage beautiful shining dark green; the young shoots bronze-red. It is a very stout grower, forming a compact bush, reaching over a yard in height and of equal width after three years' growth.

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