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The Makers of Heavenly Roses
(1985)  Page(s) 166.  
 
We followed some intricate breeding lines, and I usually had about three dozen projects in hand. One of these resulted ...in the unusual petal formation of 'Cosette', which had been introduced on the Continent, but not in Britain.
(1985)  Page(s) 101.  
 
[In trying to achieve a red 'Caroline Testout', Wilhelm Kordes II came up with 'Cathrine Kordes', sort of a red 'Caroline Testout', but not red enough. So he crossed 'Cathrine Kordes' with 'W.E. Chaplin'.] The result was 'Crimson Glory', dark red, very fragrant, soon grown everywhere as the best red rose in the world. It was introduced in 1935.
(1985)  Page(s) 85.  
 
[One of two roses that were the first to be introduced by Joseph Pemberton in 1913, Danaë and Moonlight] both shrubby, cluster flowering, and pale yellow to white, the latter being particularly beautiful in its clear, broad blooms. With delight their breeder recorded that flowers of 'Danaë', all cut from the open, and sufficient to furnish six vases, had been placed on the altar of his church on Christmas Day, 1913...
(1985)  Page(s) 29.  
 
Devoniensis
a Tea rose found in Plymouth in 1838
(1985)  Page(s) 104.  
 
Wilhem [Kordes] raised many climbing and shrub roses from [R. kordesii], including...'Dortmund',...
(1985)  Page(s) 27-28.  
 
[in 1895, George Paul reported] the main survivor [of Henry Bennett's ten Pedigree Hybrids of the Tea Rose] was 'Duke of Connaught', a red rose with beautiful buds... still being used to produce cut flowers in winter in England. The Duke had been Prince Arthur, the seventh child of Queen Victoria, and was a distinguished soldier. He died in his nineties, in 1942. His wife, who was a Prussian princess, also had one of the roses named after her. 'Duchess of Connaught' was a pink rose, somewhat similar to 'La France'.
(1985)  Page(s) 24.  
 
[while waiting for his own breeding program to reach fruition] Henry Bennett bought a rose from Joseph Schwartz... [which had been] given to Schwartz by its breeder, Monsieur A. Dunant. It was a pink Hybrid Perpetual, which Bennett named Duchess of Edinburgh and introduced in 1874. The Duchess was the wife of Queen Victoria's second son, Alfred...
(1985)  Page(s) 151.  
 
The early Cockers were not notable rose breeders. Their first varieties, brought out in 1892, were two chance sports from Hybrid Perpetuals. One was a deeper coloured flower found among their stock of the carmine 'Etienne Levet', and introduced as 'Duke of Fife'; a pale variation among the pink 'Countess of Roseberry' became 'Duchess of Fife"...
(1985)  Page(s) 28.  
 
Duchess of Westminster [one of Henry Bennett's Pedigree Hybrids]... pink, but with little scent and poor form
(1985)  Page(s) 151.  
 
In 1897 [James Cocker & Sons] turned their attention to the Royal family, with the salmon pink 'Duchess of York'.
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