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'Oliver Wendell Holmes' rose Reviews & Comments
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27 OCT 14 by
Rosentrost
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Why this rose is said to be coral-red here when there is information that it was coal-black?
Please see the old paramount short film from 1937 "Avenue of the roses", where you can see the black rose:
http://www.rosenpfarrer.de/werk.html
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27 OCT 14 by
 Patricia Routley
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Two roses. The black one was probably 'Chief Justice Holmes'.
‘Oliver Wendell Holmes’ <1930. Pern. Madame Melanie Soupert x Beauty de Lyon
'Chief Justice Holmes' 1935 Cl. Jules Margottin x Chateau de Clos Vougeot
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#2 of 2 posted
28 OCT 14 by
Rosentrost
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31 JUL 14 by
CybeRose
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Harrisonburg, VA, Daily News Record, Monday, October 26, 1936
Frederic J. Haskin
Q. Is there a black rose named in honor of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes? W. G.
A. This name has been given by Father Schoener, a Santa Barbara priest and rosiculturist, to the velvety black rose which he has grown.
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31 JUL 14 by
CybeRose
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This is the only other reference I can find for 'Souvenir de Catherine Breslau'. Sadly, there is no description.
Société d'horticulture du département de Seine-et-Oise, Versailles - 1926, p. 317
La Maison G. Truffaut, de Versailles, cultures du Chesnay (M. Devillers, Directeur), presentait, sur un fond de plantes de serres et de rosiers fleuris, une jolie collection de Dahlias et de Roses en fleurs coupées, l'ensemble disposé de façon artistique. Notons les Dahlias: Albert Amos, Bérangaria, Jo Ballégo, Trentonian, Marry Marray, Yellow King, Louise Aureau, Gold Rose; les Roses: Juliet, *Souvenir de Catherine Breslau*, Wilhem Kordes, Gloria mundi et Victor Magnin (polyanthas), Souvenir de Claudius Pernet, Général Mac Arthur, Beauté de Lyon, Ville de Paris, Souvenir de Georges Pernet, M. J. Bouché.
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23 JUL 14 by
CybeRose
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Popular Mechanics (Dec 1937) 818-821, 144A, 146A
Miracle Man of Roses
Close to the avenue of giant rose trees is an insignificant bush. It blooms irregularly, but when it does, the world sees a black rose. Only a tiny bit of dark red on the edge of some of the petals shows how it has been bred from crossing the very dark-red plants. Of the creation of this bud, Dr. Schoener says, "It is only logical to presume that if two very dark roses were crossed the next generation would contain a rose darker than either of the originals. Remember, that is only a theory. Science is not made of theories, but of facts. So I made my experiments, and eventually succeeded."
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