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...a hybrid wichurana named ‘General John Pershing’ .....in honor of the most celebrated American hero of WWI, the man who led the American Expeditionary Force in Europe. The rose is very full and large—over 50 petals—a clear dark pink with fragrance, few prickles, and long stems on a shrubby climber of about ten feet high. Though the rose was last listed in Modern Roses 8 (1980) and though no longer sold anywhere, botanist Fred Boutin has seen it growing in Oregon cemeteries

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‘Hadley’, named for a town in Massachusetts. A hybrid tea developed by Alexander Montgomery, this deep velvet red bloom with an incredibly strong old rose perfume is still sold by six rose nurseries worldwide. A small bush with slate-green leaves and a scattering of silver-white prickles, it blooms almost continuously

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....the polyantha ‘La Marne’ by Barbier, a rose named for the First Battle of the Marne, fought early September 1914, which halted the German advance thirty miles from Paris. It is an excellent polyantha with pink ruffled petals glowing in the center, the flowers massed in loose clusters.

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Though the introduction of new roses in 1915 did not appear to decline, fewer roses from that year remain on the market. Not even the hybrid tea ‘Lillian Moore’, which won the $1000 prize for best seedling at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, has survived.

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Harder to explain is the decline in popularity of the first American rose to win a Gold Medal at the international rose trials at Bagatelle, ‘Los Angeles’. A semi-double pink with apricot undertones, it is a very fragrant rose. Perhaps the color is too like that of many another hybrid tea. Perhaps, for some gardeners, its petals are too few. Or perhaps it has been budded on rootstock other than ‘Ragged Robin’, in which case (so states the American Rose Society in its1926 annual) it would prove a failure.

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‘Miss Edith Cavell’ (also ‘Edith Cavell’ and ‘Nurse Cavell’) is the sole rose of 1917 most available. A dark red polyantha introduced in the Netherlands, it commemorates Edith Cavell, a young Englishwoman whose nursing school in Brussels became a Red Cross hospital. When Germany invaded Belgium, Edith refused to return home. As a principled nurse, she treated all soldiers, irrespective of nationality. No doubt at this time she was aware, if not also recipient, of Hoover’s aid to the hungry. At some point she began underground resistance work, enabling Belgian, British, and French soldiers to escape into neutral Holland. In August 1915, she was arrested and imprisoned by the Germans for ten weeks. On October 12, 1915, she faced the firing squad.