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(1923) Page(s) 91. The wichuraiana species is a trailer, and its fine hybrid, Alberic Barbier, trails agreeably, though it also sometimes freezes back disagreeably.
(1923) Page(s) 33. Includes photo(s). Breeze Hill: New Wichuraiana-Pernetiana rose
(1923) Page(s) 25-6. An early American rose-lover, John Champney, of Charleston, S.C., about 1810, did some hybridizing between the Musk rose—then in prominence as a garden form—and a blush China rose, the plants resulting from the seed of which came to be called Champney's Pink Cluster.
(1923) Page(s) 24. One recent Hybrid Rugosa, a cross of the species with a Polyantha rose, is always in bloom, and is rather well described as "a Rugosa rose with the flowers of a red carnation". It is known as F. J. Grootendorst.
(1923) Page(s) 52, Plate VI. Includes photo(s). A hybrid between Rosa Moyesii, the deep red Chinese native form, and a friendly seed parent, the Japanese Wichuraiana, has given us "W. M. 5," the only name it bears at this writing. The plant carrying that name is a vigorous bush 5 feet high, and more, which might climb if I did not intertwine its flexible shoots, clothed the season through as they are with substantial bright green foliage that laughs at insects. When the June rose glory breaks upon us, W. M. 5 opens up a complete covering of single flowers over 2 inches in diameter, brilliant dark scarlet-crimson on the outer part to a dainty twilight zone which merges into clear white in the center of the flower, where arise a group of bright yellow stamens. The freedom of bloom, the brilliance of color, the beautiful brightness of the foliage and the vigor of the plant ought to make W. M. 5 not only a good pillar rose but a mighty fine thing in the shrubbery. (Plate VI shows both W. M. 5, and its Moyesi parent.) [Plate VI faces p. 52]
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