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'Miguel Aldrufeu' rose Reviews & Comments
Discussion id : 124-801
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Initial post 1 JAN 21 by rbehs
I watched the movie "De-Lovely" for the first time last night, and they had a scene where Cole Porter gives his wife this rose as she is dying, saying he had it bred by a Spaniard for her, from two different roses that are difficult to hybridize together (which doesn't seem to be the case). It was a pink rose he gave her; I wonder if they used the actual rose.
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Discussion id : 107-006
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Initial post 16 DEC 17 by Unregistered Guest
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Discussion id : 97-000
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Initial post 23 JAN 17 by Margaret Furness
The first two photos on the file don't seem to match more recent ones.
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Reply #1 of 1 posted 23 JAN 17 by Patricia Routley
Yes. AmiRoses "orange-red" photo certainly does not match the "pink" referred to fairly consistently in The Proof of the Pudding. I've uploaded a 1957 pink photo which seems to show very shallow receptacles. It would be nice to have a comparing photo, instead of the usual in-your-face blooms. This same photo was used in the patent and it is of interest that the patent was assigned to Cole Porter. Eric Timewell has written a little more on that in the previous comment. I also have a file on the rose, but am unable to upload the references.
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Discussion id : 89-477
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Initial post 26 NOV 15 by Eric Timewell
This rose was named by Cole Porter, 1930s music personified, after his wife Linda had died. Its Spanish name is Miguel Andrufeu. Pedro Dot's firm is still in business [at time of writing] in much the same place as before. I reckon ten of the 34 roses on its current list are by Pedro himself. One of them is Linda Porter.
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Reply #1 of 3 posted 24 NOV 16 by Patricia Routley
May I just double check please Eric. Is it Andrufeu or Andrefeu
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Reply #2 of 3 posted 24 NOV 16 by Eric Timewell
Patricia,
Amics de les Roses website gives Miquel Aldrufeu (1957) with an el, so both our spellings are wrong. I checked this against Friera's book "Rosas de España", which also gives Miguel Aldrufeu with a different date (1954). Then I checked the website of Rosas Dot: uselessly it gives Linda Porter.
I see on Abebooks a "Catalogue of Cultivated Plants in the Municipal Gardens of Barcelona". Its authors are Luis Riudor, Miguel Aldrufeu and Juan Pañella. So I'd say the el-spelling is correct.
Thanks for straightening this out.
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Reply #3 of 3 posted 24 NOV 16 by Patricia Routley
Thanks Eric. Hazlewood 1958 gives a date of 1955, but we'll use Friera's date of 1954 which might be more correct.
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