(2007)  
 
"Belle Isis"
Class: Gallica. Growth: short. Foliage: 5-leaflets, ovoid longish with elongated tip, finely serrated. Stipule: inconspicious. Calyx: roundish, cupped, slightly glandular. Sepal: short, slightly laciniate. Bud: round like a peony bud, pink stripes on light background. Bloom: large, very double, quartered, very thin petals, center light lilac-pink, circumference very light, flat cup form. Prickles: few, small, fine straight. Fragrance: Strong, spicy. Comment: We haven't found her yet in rosaries, other forms there with the same name. Similarities to "Aimable Amie" and "Belle sans Flatterie.

(2007)  
 
”Kreiselrose”
Class: Francofurtana.
Growth: short.
Foliage: 7-9 leaflets, light green, roundish with blunt tip, smooth, thin, finely serrated, central axis hooked.
Stipule: center lightly reddish, tips sometimes screwdriver-like.
Calyx: very thick cup, sometimes with a bulgy thickening at the upper rim, which is sparsely glandular, while the lower part is full with red glands.
Sepal: very extended, 2 cm longer than the bud, red glands, isolated wings.
Bud: large, elegantly pointed, tender lilac-pink.
Bloom: medium, loosely double, centre lilac-pink, outwards tender pink-white, petals very thin.
Prickles: fully without prickles on old wood, thin pointed ones on young.
Fragrance: Pleasant, moderate to strong.
Comment: Also known as ‘Minette’ and in Scandinavia as Rosa suionum. Missing in rosaries (except Hälsingborg). This rose definitely needs an airy location to be able to present her beautiful blooms. The buds do not expand in a fully rainy June and the outer petals become brown.

(2007)  Includes photo(s).
 
"La Noblesse" (=“Unknown Bourbon rose“)
Breeder: Pastoret, commercialised 1857 by Soupert & Notting as centifolia, and not as planned a a hybrid perpetual, as she bloomed only once. Class: passes as Centifolia, the found rose seems rather to belong to Bourbons. Growth: tall, needs support. Foliage: 5-leaflets, roundish with small tip, short serration, smooth, center axis hooked, young foliage with red circumference. Stipule: center light red. Calyx: cupped, lower half glandular. Sepal: short, laciniate. Bud: roundish, carmine. Bloom: large, very double, petals in the middle strongly ruffled, pistil visible as green point. Outer petals strongly reflexed outwards, establishing a high edge, carmine, does not fade muchPrickles: many, broad, strong, pointed and red on new canes. Fragrance: Strong, heavy. Comment: Same as the “Unknown Bourbon” in the Meldorf garden. “La Noblesse” in other rosaries is a soft pink rose.

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"La Reine"
Breeder: Laffay, 1843.Class: Hybrid perpetual. Growth: tall, needs support. Foliage: 5-leaflets, large and broad, acuminate, glabrous, slightly glossy, irregularly and roughly serrated. Stipule: long, ears standing out, red middle. Calyx: rounded, top somewhat flattened, glabrous. Sepal: short, not foliaceous. Bud: rounded-pointed, carmine. Bloom: very large, very double and magnificent, carmine to carmine-pink, very regular, high-centered form, petals slightly reflexed. Prickles: broad, pointed, straight. Fragrance: medium-strong. Comment: Repeats. In the descriptions of the 19th century the colour is described as bright carmine-pink with a shaded of lilac. On the other hand, in the rosaries [today] is a rose of the same name in tender pink.

(2007)  
 
"Nanette". Gallica. Short. 5 leaflets, rough, varying sizes, pedicel prickly. Calyx rounded, slightly glandular in the lower half. Sepals short, foliaceous. Buds rounded, deep carmine. Medium size bloom, deep bright carmine, well double, in the middle spiralled and ruffled petals, blooming pompon-like. Almost without prickles. Moderate fragrance. Not found in rosaries.

(2007)  Includes photo(s).
 
Unknown “Centifolia”
Class: Definitely not a centifolia, but rather a hybrid bourbon. Growth: tall, needs support. Foliage: 5-leaflets, roundish with flattened tip, smooth, close to each other, finely serrated, central axis occasionally hooked. Stipule: red center. Calyx: cupped, smooth. Sepal: short, few appendages. Bud: roundish, carmine-pink. Bloom: medium, loosely double, stays in flat cup form, intensely carmine-pink, reverse lighter, lightly silvery, conspicuous contrast. Older blooms more open, the crown of stamens is then visible. Prickles: straight, thin, pointed, longer or shorter. Fragrance: Moderate, slightly sweet fruity. Comment: In Sangerhausen as “Fundrose Gerda Nissen”.

(2007)  
 
"Päonienrose”
Class: Placed among the francofurtanas. Growth: moderate. Foliage: 5-leaflets, large, broad, regular fine serration, reliefed, leaflets close to eachother, central axis hooked. Stipule: broad. Calyx: cupped, lower half glandular. Sepal: longer than the bud, a few broad appendages. Bud: roundish with small tip. Bloom: large, regular, loosely double, warm carmine-pink fading to light pink, pedicel with red glands. Prickles: large, straight, oblique downwards. Fragrance: Mild, fruity. Comment: Not found in rosaries and in literature.

(2007)  
 
"Petite de Holland” (Gaspar Monge)
Class: The original Petite de Hollande is a centifolia. Growth: tall, needs support. Foliage: 5-leaflets, roundish or ovoid, with smaller or longer tip, salad leaf green, finely serrated. Stipule: broad, red center. Calyx: often widening almost triangularly upwards, few red glands. Sepal: longer than the bud, laciniate. Bud: roundish with tip. Bloom: medium, firmly double, the central small petals deep pink, the others lighter, pistil well visible as a yellow point. Bloom rather flat cupped, in clusters. Prickles: few, small, pointed. Fragrance: Moderate. Comment: In Sangerhausen this rose is named “Gaspar Monge”. The mistake was due to missing height information.

(2007)  Includes photo(s).
 
Translation from German:
"Tapetenrose”
Class: Francofurtana.
Growth: tall, can be fastened on an espalier, for a long time it was the only rose which could be used thus
Foliage: 5 leaflets, rounded-lanceolate with blunt tip, strongly serrated, notably rugose, few prickles on the leaf axis
Stipule: often very wide
Calyx: very thick cup, with clear waist and bulge on top, reddish glands on the bottom end
Sepal: long, narrow, extends far above the bud, almost no appendages, red glands
Bud: slim, carmine variable
Bloom: medium, distinctly violet-shaded carmine, loosely and irregularly double, stamens often interspersed with petaloids
Prickles: uneven large curved
Fragrance: moderate
Comment: hardy, often found in Norway

Rosa x francofurtana "Tapetenrose" - and old rose which lost and refound its name. By Heinke Arnold.
In 1979 Gerda Nissen found in an overgrown garden in Linden-Pahlkrug in Dithmarschen an ols rose with an unusual violet-red colour an a top-shaped bud. After a long study of souces, she was certain that this had to be the "Tapetenrose" [Wallpaper Rose], and described it 1990 in the 6th edition of her book "Alte Rosen". She ended her lecture for rose lovers in Kassel in September 1989 with the words: I consider it the Wallpaper Rose, the oldest form of the Francofurtana class, still known until into the 19th century, then lost. I think that this variety should quite officially receive its old name back and be commercialized thus. It has a very old and famous tradition, because it was Europe's only and first tall climber before the introduction of climbers from the Far East.

...Regarding the different heights found in literature and the complaints of some older authors that the buds do not want to expand properly, the following could be mentioned: The long-time rose collector Dieter Heinzelmann from Rötenberg in the Black Forest, who since 30 years planted and preserved in his garden old roses found in his emmediate or further surroundings (without suspecting that Gerda Nissen did the same in the north) made the following observation: In the plains of eastern Black Forest, Wallpaper Roses planted on loam or shell limestone under the same conditions attain different heights. Some do not reach 1.60 m, others are 2 m and taller. The roses he grew from suckers of these behved in exactly the same way in his garden of acidic, reddish sandstone in the High Black Forest. Are there two varieties? He noted a difference in the blooming behaviour. While the roses in their origibal locations blooms magnificently every year, his two have difficulty in expanding, and do not at all in unfavourable years. One could assume that the nature of the soil has an influence on the flowering.