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[Named for Edgley, PA - not Edgely]
Everblooming Roses for the Out-door Garden of the Amateur pp. 53-54 (1912) EVERBLOOMING HYBRID REMONTANT ROSES Georgia Torrey Drennan
The only other sport of this exclusive family is the Queen of Edgley, or Pink American Beauty. In 1897, in a house devoted to American Beauties by the Floral Exchange Company of Philadelphia, at Edgley, Pennsylvania, fortune unexpectedly came to the rose growers in the form of an American Beauty, except in a distinct shade of pink, without a tinge of red. It was entered and won the Gold Medal at the Rose Show. The name of Queen of Edgley was conferred on it, but Pink American Beauty is the name by which it is best known. The colour is lighter than Caroline Testout, and deeper than La France. During the flush of its brief beauty, it fills an honoured position among the roses of winter and in out-door gardens in springtime, is a rose of imperial beauty.
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But the actual name of the town is Edgely, not Edgley. See, for instance, Google Maps.
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Catalogue of Ornamental Trees and Shrubs, Herbaceous and Greenhouse Plants, cultivated and for sale by Thomas Hogg, Nurseryman and Florist, at the New-York Botanic Garden in Broadway. (1834) p. 4
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Journal des Roses (April 1880) p. 52 Suivant des notes qui nous ont été adressées par M. Margottin père, l'habile rosiériste de Bourg la Reine, la magnifique variété de rose la Reine dont nous avons publié la gravure dans notre dernier numéro, vient d'un semis de graines provenant d'un rosier non remontant, nommé Attala.
Following notes that have been sent by Mr. Margottin father, the clever rosiériste of Bourg-la-Reine, the magnificent rose variety la Reine which we published in our last issue engraving, just sowing of seeds from a non-remontant rose, called Attala.
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At the time of the release of Laffay's 'La Reine', Margottin was not yet introducing roses; and yet, the timing is just right for a young Margottin to be interested in the parents of famous roses while he amped up for raising his own varieties, so it makes sense that he could have contacted Laffay, querying the parentage of 'La Reine', and so found out this information. The non-remontant 'Attala' referred to is presumably the Agathe/Damask 'Attala' (delicate pink) of -1829 from Delaâge or (and which might be the same) the circa 1825 Agathe/Damask/Gallica 'Atala' (flesh) from Garilland. If this were the seed parent, one would be tempted to guess that a bee provided pollen from a nearby Bourbon.
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How does that suggested parentage, once blooming Attala with a repeat blooming, one supposes, Bourbon, produce a remontant rose? Would not one expect an intermediate step, seedling of the above crossing pollinated in turn by another repeat blooming rose?
BTW, Mr. Dickerson, I am now the pleased and happy owner of your recent book on the early floribundas.
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Adhering to classical theory, yes, you would be absolutely correct concerning expectations. But the thing is, one never knows if the supposed Agathe/Damask/Gallica might have had, say, a Quatre-Saisons slip into the ancestry at some point, so anything can happen.
Thanks so much about my Floribunda book! That was one which I hadn't planned on writing at all; but one day when I was shopping the older Floribundas and trying to understand it all, I found that, on consulting "the usual suspects" in rose books, I was just getting the same old vagueries about the early years, and very little even of that. Situations like this make me say, "OK, I'll fix that" (that's how I started writing about Old Roses to begin with); and so I decided to take things in hand and "tame the frontier" myself. Don't forget to check out the URLs on the book's copyright page for illustrations of many of the roses in the book.
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The Circleville Herald (Circleville, Ohio) p. 5 (26 Aug 1959) Mrs. Fisher Top Rose Hybridizer
There are only two or three top flight women rose hybridizers in the whole world. Mrs. Gordon Fisher of Woburn, Mass., is one.
She developed one of the first true lavender roses, "Sterling Silver".
And because "Sterling Silver" has a bluish cast in its silver petals it is in the realm of possibility that this interesting, long-stemmed, fragrant lavender rose may be an ancestor to the first blue roses to come out of America.
Anyway Gladys Fisher is hoping for a blue rose. And each morning when she views flats of tiny seedlings she casts a quick glance over the whole lot for a blue rose.
Seedling roses bloom when only two or three inches high. And from these seedlings rosarians work to develop length of stem and texture or petals. The color of the rose seedling never changes.
MRS. FISHER is described as a vivacious, attractive little person, forever sought after as speaker at rose festivals and garden clubs. Both she and her husband, the late Gordon Fisher, were graduates of the University of New Hampshire. They were married in 1916. And for some 27 odd years Mrs. Fisher stuck to her "knitting" which happened to be the business of making a home and rearing the two Fisher children.
Just one week after her husband's death in 1943 the head rose hybridist at the Arnond-Fisher company, the wholesale florist organization which her husband had owned, left to enter the service.
And Mrs. Fisher decided to try her hand at the job. Timidly at first! During the first year she made only between 50 and 100 crosses.
She worked for five years before she developed her first patented rose, "Pandora," a creamy apricot with a heart of deeper apricot. Others are "Love Song", "Tapestry" and "Capri".
In 1946 Mrs. Fisher's first lavender, "Morning Mist" was developed. From "Morning Mist" a stronger rose, "Sterling Silver" was created.
Mrs. Fisher frankly admits that patience is one of the characteristics a rose hybridist needs. It is a tedious and exacting job. It also requires a formidable knowledge of the principles of heredity.
First Mrs. Fisher says she chooses a rose of good stock. A rose bud is selected, opened and the pollen popped into an envelope and carefully labeled.
In a few days when she is ready to make the cross she selects that parent rose, removes the petals, stamens and pollen. Then she rubs the pistil of this rose in the pollen from the envelope. When the pistil is throughly covered she ties a glassine bag over the cross to prevent further pollenization.
THE ROSE is tagged with complete information.
Later when Mrs. Fisher inspectes it, if the seed pod is green she knows the cross has taken. When the rose hip is the size of a walnut and orange in color the seeds are removed and planted in flats.
It takes some three months before the seedlings are an inch high. Even at this early date the selectivity starts.
Roses are self pollenizing so the hybridizer dares not wait for the rose to open but must make her cross while it is still in bud.
Mrs. Fisher may have started her work timidly but now her seedlings number up to 10,000 a year. So maybe she will reach her goal. Maybe she will be the one to develop the first American blue rose.
We say "American Blue Rose" because blue roses have been developed both in Japan and Germany.
It is interesting to note that Mrs. Paul Wood of Stoutsville during her stay inJapan in 1955 saw blue roses which had been grown in the Japanese Emperor's garden. And they were a true blue she says. She also saw brown and black roses in Japan.
Mrs. Fisher has another goal beside a blue rose. She's striving for a more perfect red rose. It will be a sort of memorial to her late husband whose favorite flower was the red rose.
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Tapestry 1958 is also one of hers; well worth looking at.
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Thanks, I enjoyed reading this. :)
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