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'La Reine' rose References
Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 295.  
 
Hybrid Perpetual (OGR), medium pink, 1842, ('Reine dea Francais'; 'Rose de la Reine'); Laffay. Flowers glossy rose-pink, double (78 petals), cupped, large; fragrant; vigorous growth.
Book  (1993)  Page(s) 90.  Includes photo(s).
 
Hybrid Perpetual. Laffay (France) 1842.
Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 138.  
 
La Reine (Translation, 'The Queen') Hybrid Perpetual. Laffay, 1844. Possibly a seedling of 'William Jesse' [Hybrid Bourbon]. [The author cites information from many different sources, including some interesting background information on Laffay and his breeding program]... Bright rose tinged with lilac... One of the gems of the [1844] season... The largest and most magnificent of all the Perpetuals, often attaining the size of a double paeony... Often shaded with lilac, and sometimes with crimson... Has the appearance of a true perpetual cabbage, but much larger... smooth bark.. occasional thorns... not very hardy... it rivals the Centifolias in scent and color, but surpasses them in the size of the flower... In some situations -- particularly late in the autumn -- delicately striped or veined with carmine... it is the product of planned breeding. The seeds were produced in 1835, and first bloomed in 1841... 'Rose de la Reine'... It was September 5, 1843, that Mons Laffay, amateur horticulturalist of Bellevue, near Paris, presented to the general circle of horticulture four samples of ['La Reine']... Mons. Laffay, who has bred many introductions, always dedicates them to English princes... 'La Reine perfectly justifies the name 'The Autumnal Centifolia'...
Book  (1988)  Page(s) 73.  Includes photo(s).
Book  (1987)  Page(s) 66.  
 
David Ruston, Heritage Rose Conference 1986. 
I have been chasing the old Hybrid Perpetual La Reine for at least 10 years.  I looked for her in Sangerhausen, but she had succumbed to winter cold.  Heather Rumsey found a plant in Hamburg, but I was not there, having gone to Dortmund for the day.  The rose was missing at Bonehill and I finally tracked down a plant at Deane Ross’s last winter, only to find that Gwen Fagan identified a huge plant of her at least 50 years old at Grace Wilkinson’s garden 24 km from here!
 
Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 23.  
 
La Reine.  (Hybrid Perpetual) Large, full blooms of silvery-rose pink.  One of the first hybrid perpetuals introduced and a parent to many others.  Fragrant. 1842. (R) 3 x 3’.
Magazine  (19 Nov 1981)  
 
Humphrey Brooke: A Rose Prophecy Fulfilled, The Resurgence of the Hybrid Perpetual.
Hybrid Perpetuals were the inventions of the French nurseryman Laffay, and are of very mixed parentage, since he is reported (Thomas Rivers, The Rose Amateur's Guide, 1840) as using 200,000 seedlings a year.....but his first triumph was La Reine (1843), a globular flower in satin pink and violet on a strong bush. In my experience she opens badly except in full sun, and dislikes rain, but she is still a magnificent rose.
Book  (1980)  Page(s) vii.  Includes photo(s).
 
Leonie Bell: 
When I finally laid eyes on La Reine, the heavy buds with their tapering calyx-tubes could have been the models for the pair in Curtis' plate.  This is genuine botanical illustration, no less so because the subject grows only in gardens and flaunts glowing color. 
Book  (1980)  Page(s) 131.  
 
It is sad and inexplicable to me how such a famous pink rose as La Reine (1842) can have disappeared. In its heyday it was in every catalogue and its portrait was in every book. Perhaps it may yet be retrieved. It was figured in  Choix des Plus Belles Roses, Plate 13, and in the Journal des Roses, Mars 1880.
Book  (1974)  Page(s) 141.  
 
Arthur Wyatt: Lost and Found Roses. The same Jules Laffay was initially responsible for this development, which was to carry through until the end of the Victorian era. His original group sent out between 1837 and 1840 were of little account and quickly disappeared, but his 'Rose de la Reine’ (1842) was the real landmark. From it, all modern pink and white Hybrid Teas are descended. 'La Reine’ as it is more usually called, had not been available for sixty years. Fortunately, several good colour engravings exist from which a check could be made, as several contenders came in before the authentic variety was found in East Germany. William Paul recalled in 1848 how his excitement at seeing 'La Reine for the very first time caused a near catastrophe in Laffay's nursery at Auteuil. In his anxiety to get a closer look, he crashed into a bed of young seedlings and thus nearly ended a beautiful friendship (but which, in fact endured for the lifetime of both men). The blooms are large, globular, very full and strongly fragrant in the now fashionable lilac-pink with an intriguing carmine cast to the outer petals. They usually come solitary on long, firm stems on a tall, healthy plant amply furnished with light green foliage, which only falls prey to the leaf-cutter bee. It blooms early and repeats well, a feature noticeable in its seedlings, 'Anna de Diesbach’ (1858) and 'Francois Michelon’ 1891) . Both are in varying shades of pink. Plant-wise too, they show close affinity to ‘La Reine’, but with a deeper cup and a lesser petallage than ‘La Reine' which averages 78, they are less inclined to ball in damp conditions. They have inherited the same damask fragrance which they transmitted to their progeny.
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