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'Charlotte Elizabeth' rose Reviews & Comments
most recent 1 FEB 19  
Initial post 1 FEB 19 by goncmg
Hello Admins! ….okay, the abstreuse , forgotten and likely extinct 'Charlotte Elizabeth' by Norman, 1965. The parentage as listed on page 111 of Gault & Synge's "The Dictionary of Roses in Color," 1971, is SHEILA ELIZABETH x QUEEN ELIZABETH. ……….I cannot find a rose named Sheila Elizabeth? I even tried a spelling reversing the i and the e and also using a hyphen!
Reply #1 posted 1 FEB 19 by Patricia Routley
I can't find it either. But I jotted down irrelevant things on the way through:

1961 Vera Dalton named after his daughter (Paul’s Scarlet Climber x Paul’s Scarlet Climber) x (Mary x Queen Elizabeth)
1962 he named ‘Ann Elizabeth’ after a grandaughter
1963 Ruth Hewitt (unnamed seedling x Queen Elizabeth)
<1965 Looking for ‘Sheila Elizabeth - this parentage is my idle guess!!!! (Sheila x Queen Elizabeth)
1965 ‘Charlotte Elizabeth’ after his wife (Sheila Elizabeth x Queen Elizabeth)
Reply #2 posted 1 FEB 19 by goncmg
SHEILA: one of them is the parent. So it is either an orange-pink polyantha or a white HP/HT...……..nuts. But yes, one of them. And I was poring over my books tonight and Ruth Hewitt came up and I am trying to figure out how and with what variety because it wasn't with this one!
most recent 20 APR 14  
Initial post 20 APR 14 by goncmg
Another HOLY GRAIL of mine. If anyone is growing this, please contact me!