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Old Roses (Keays)
(1935)  Page(s) 180.  
 
Anna de Diesbach
Hybrid Perpetual
This rose has a lovely bloom of a deep carmine-pink shade, very large and full, intensely fragrant... 'Anna' is just a bit dressier than 'La Reine'. In last quality and profusion of bloom it has proved to be better [for the author]
(1935)  Page(s) 177.  
 
Thomas Laxton grew 'Annie Laxton', 1869
(1935)  Page(s) 177-178.  
 
[To create repeat-blooming roses, Jean Laffay] used Hybrid Chinas [especially 'Athelin' and 'Celine'] which he crossed with Damask Perpetuals and Bourbons...
(1935)  Page(s) 177, 189.  
 
Page 177: Baron de Bonstetten the great old maroon
Page 189: Baron de Bonstetten
Hybrid Perpetual 1871
... a velvety, very blackish crimson shading to maroon... very fragrant... shy in autumn...
(1935)  Page(s) 182.  
 
Baroness Rothschild
Hybrid Perpetual
... pink rose... a complete absence of fragrance...
(1935)  Page(s) 184-185.  
 
Baronne Prévost
Hybrid Perpetual 1842
... rose-color, slightly deeper in the center...
(1935)  
 
Old Blush Noisette established a new group among roses. Its heavily clustering bloom, its musky scent, its strong growth and hardiness were greatly admired, and Blush Noisette was seized upon by French growers, both professional and amateur, many varieties resulting from new hybridization... Redouté illustrated the Rose of Philippe Noisette, the Blush Noisette, and Thory, the botanist, gave its distinguishing points in the text... [description] Flowers are double and more, two to two and a half inches in diameter, of white, washed with pink, a little yellow at the shank, fragrant with a hint of musk. The pale blush roses, lateral and terminal, three to six on a stem, form in their grouping a great panicle of bloom up to a hundred and thirty, an impressive feature...
(1935)  Page(s) 116-117.  
 
[Thomas Rivers wrote:] Monsieur Bréon... a French botanist, and now a seedsman in Paris... arrived at Bourbon in 1817, as botanical traveller for the government of France, and curator of the Botanical and Naturalization Garden there... [Bréon] sent plants [of 'L'Ile de Bourbon Rose'] to Monsieur Jacques, gardener at the Château de Neuilly, near Paris, who distributed them among the rose cultivators of France. M. Bréon named it 'Rose de L'le [sic] de Bourbon'... The original 'Rose de l'Ile de Bourbon' was a very deep rose-pink bloom of about twenty petals...
(1935)  Page(s) 186.  
 
Cardinal Patrizzi
Hybrid Perpetual
... still preserved...
(1935)  Page(s) 177-178.  
 
[To create repeat-blooming roses, Jean Laffay] used Hybrid Chinas [especially 'Athelin' and 'Celine'] which he crossed with Damask Perpetuals and Bourbons...
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