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Old Roses (Keays)
(1935)  Page(s) 126.  
 
Faded Pink Monthly Description... a local name for a very lovely old rose. The story of this rose was told at length in "Old Roses in Calvert County, Maryland," in the American Rose Annual for 1932... Our rose never has attained a height above four feet... Faded Pink Monthly begins to bloom in May with us, and except for a few days' rest to which to catch up new impulse, never ceases until frost...
(1935)  
 
1978 facsimile edition of the 1935 'Old Roses' book by Mrs. Ethelyn Emery Keays.
p126. "Faded Pink Monthly" , a sweet name to linger over, is a local name for a very lovely old rose. The story of this rose was told at length in "Old Roses in Calvert County , Maryland," in the American Rose Annual for 1932. The original gift to us is a very old plant dating back of [to] the Civil War. To identify it took many months of study and photographing and propagating. The blooms of "Faded Pink Monthly" might have been reproduced for Redoute's lovely colored picture of the Rose of Philippe Noisette. Our rose never has attained a height above four feet, so it is a dwarf compared to the eight to ten feet of the original 'Blush Noisette'. Clusters have never been counted up to a half of 'Old Blush', as far as we have counted. Beauty, fragrance, hardiness, clean lovely foliage, prickles, color - are all present. "Faded Pink Monthly" begins to bloom in May with us, and except for a few days' rest in which to catch up a new impulse never ceases until frost.
(1935)  Page(s) 82-83.  
 
In developing garden roses from Sempervirens the greatest work was done by Jacques, gardener to Louis Philippe, at Neuilly. jacques named a pale rose-colored Sempervirens for Adélaide d'Orléans; for Princess Luise, a creamy white; for Princess Marie, a clear pink. The one not named for someone in the royal house, but for his two daughters, - one rose and two daughters, it is said, - is Félicité et Perpétue, 1828, and it is the one surviving in old gardens.
Fölicité et Perpétue grows on atrellis with The Garland at Creek Side, where they make a lavish picture in May and June, soft white, fragrant, and humming with bees. The deep green leaflets, five in number, are very glossy and tough, oval with a quick point, so varnished that the dried leaf in our notebook still has some shine on its surface. Ist climbing, branching, smooth green stalks, with sharp down-slanting red thorne, carry, in great freedom, clusters of deep creamy white flowers, full, expanded, and fragrant. The rose wants tying but pruning is resented. Félicité et Perpétue has been immensely and justly popular for a hundred years. We wish it another hundred.
(1935)  Page(s) 177, 181.  
 
Page 177: Antoine Levet, of Lyons, France, gave the world 'Paul Neyron' in 1869, and the more choice but less-prevailing François Michelon in 1871.
Page 181: François Michelon... large deep-rose-colored blooms [Keays wasn't certain this rose belongs with the Hybrid Perpetuals]
(1935)  Page(s) 176, 185.  
 
Page 176: [Ellwanger showed that the most prolific Hybrid Perpetual seed-bearers were:] 'La Reine', 'Jules Margottin', 'Victor Verdier', 'Géant des Batailles', 'Général Jacqueminot', and 'Charles Lefebvre'.
Page 185: Giant of Battles is considered to be a seed descendant of 'GLoire des Rosomanes' but "doubtless has Bourbon blood in its veins"... brilliant crimson shaded somewhat with purple-velvet...
(1935)  Page(s) 176, 177.  
 
Page 176: [Ellwanger showed that the most prolific Hybrid Perpetual seed-bearers were:] 'La Reine', 'Jules Margottin', 'Victor Verdier', 'Géant des Batailles', 'Général Jacqueminot', and 'Charles Lefebvre'.
Page 177: Rousselet started a rose-world -- already surfeited we would think, -- with 'Général Jacqueminot' in 1853.
Pages 186-187: Général Jacqueminot
... himself the head of a great company... raised by an amateur named Roussel... introduced by Rousselet, his gardener, in 1853... brilliant scarlet-crimson, richly fragrant... a shy bloomer in autumn...
Page 188: Général Jacqueminot was the progenitor of certain roses which became "types" or family heads in the subdivision of the race...
-- 'Sénateur Vaisse', 1859... headed a group distinguished for size and fulness and especially for fine form
-- 'Prince Camille de Rohan', 1861, type of the darkest and most velvety
-- 'Alfred Colomb', 1865... [head of] a group of larger, fuller, globular roses, extremely fragrant and better bloomer sthan th eparent
-- 'Duke of Edinburgh', 1868... very beautiful roses, requiring ideal conditions, lacking substance and scent of the parent
-- 'Charles Lefebvre', 1861, the convergence of two lines, 'La Reine' and 'Général Jacqueminot', a type of rose of thick petals, very velvety and rich in color... given to fading quickly...
(1935)  Page(s) 121-122.  
 
Gruss an Teplitz, properly, does not belong in a book about old roses, as it was not given to the public until 1897. Ancestrally, it is most interesting to old-rose lovers, as it was made from old roses - Bourbon, Noisette, Tea - and finally crossed with Gloire des Rosomanes, the story of all of which is told in an interesting article in the American Rose Annual for 1933. This is a tall-growing rose of great value in the garden, with lovely foliage and delightful scarlet-crimson blooms, fragrant and free, coming along from spring to frost. Among some old roses we received from a friend was a variety called Virgina R. Coxe. We believe this to be Gruss an Teplitz under another name, and no older than Teplitz.
(1935)  Page(s) 103.  
 
Isabella Sprunt
1865
Sport of 'Safrano'
Found by Rev. J.M. Sprunt (an American clerical gardener)
... [a] sulphur-yellow, clear-colored sport [of 'Safrano'... Sprunt] named it 'Isabella Sprunt' for his daughter
(1935)  Page(s) 182.  
 
John Hopper
Hybrid Perpetual
[belongs to the 'Jules Margottin' type of Hybrid Perpetuals]... carmine-red...
(1935)  Page(s) 176, 177, 182.  
 
Page 176: [Ellwanger showed that the most prolific Hybrid Perpetual seed-bearers were:] 'La Reine', 'Jules Margottin', 'Victor Verdier', 'Géant des Batailles', 'Général Jacqueminot', and 'Charles Lefebvre'.
Page 177: Jules Margottin named this rose for himself
Page 182: Jules Margottin
Hybrid Perpetual
... considered to be from 'La Reine' descent... became a type and head of a succession... numerous prickles... especially good in autumn... slightly fragrant...
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