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'Rosier de l'Île de Bourbon' rose References
Book  (1936)  Page(s) 99.  
 
Bourbon, Rosier de l'Ile (bourbon) ? before 1836; glossy deep pink, medium size, semi-double to double, long branches, ovois broad foliage, hooked prickles; = R. borboniana Thory.
Book  (1935)  Page(s) 116-117.  
 
[Thomas Rivers wrote:] Monsieur Bréon... a French botanist, and now a seedsman in Paris... arrived at Bourbon in 1817, as botanical traveller for the government of France, and curator of the Botanical and Naturalization Garden there... [Bréon] sent plants [of 'L'Ile de Bourbon Rose'] to Monsieur Jacques, gardener at the Château de Neuilly, near Paris, who distributed them among the rose cultivators of France. M. Bréon named it 'Rose de L'le [sic] de Bourbon'... The original 'Rose de l'Ile de Bourbon' was a very deep rose-pink bloom of about twenty petals...
Magazine  (Jun 1915)  Page(s) 254.  
 
Ernest H. Wilson, Arnold Arboretum. The Story Of The Modern Rose.
This Rose Edward is of much interest; long ago it was cultivated in Calcutta and it is obviously a Hybrid Chinese. The specimen I have seen strongly suggests R. chinensis x R. centifolia as its parentage.
Magazine  (5 Aug 1911)  Page(s) 374.  
 
The Parentage of Roses.
The following list of the world's Roses and their parentage has been compiled by Mr. Robert Daniel, 38 Russell Road. Fishponds, Bristol, and by his kind permission we are enabled to publish it...
Rosa bourboniana... Hybrid Species, Red, 1819, R. semperflorens X R. gallica
Book  (1885)  Page(s) Vol. 2, p. 265.  
 
Rosier d'Ile Bourbon. Arbrisseau à rameaux longs et divergents; aiguillons trè crochus, glanduleux à la base; folioles larges, ovales, cordiformés à la base; tube du calice ovale oblong, glauque et glabre au sommet; fleur moyenne, en coupe, semi-double ou double, d'un rose brillant et foncé.
Book  (1884)  Page(s) 185.  
 
The Bourbon rose has been introduced, and grows all over India in the greatest profusion. It is smaller, but resembles the Provence rose, with the advantage of blowing throughout the year, and possesses a fine scent.
Magazine  (Jul 1877)  Page(s) 1.  
 
M. Jacques a laissé à cet égard une notice manuscrite signée de sa main, que nous reproduisons, et qui ne laissera plus aucun doute sur cette question:
« Rosa Canina Borbonica.—Variété semi-pleine. Les graines de cette plante me furent envoyées par mon ami, M. Bréon, qui me les expédia de l'Ile-Bourbon même. Je reçus les graines en octobre 1819. Je semai de suite, quatre ou cinq sujets levèrent au printemps de 1820. La variété que je viens de citer a toujours été la plus vigoureuse, et c'est très-certainement d'elle que sont issues les très-nombreuses variétés obtenues jusqu'à présent. »
Voilà l'opinion d'un grand maître en horticulture qui fera autorité dans le monde des rosiéristes.
Book  (1858)  Page(s) 229.  
 
Rosa indica borbonia Hort. Bourbon-Rose. Rosa canina Bourboniana; R. de l'Ile Bourbon; R. perpetuelle de l'Ile Bourbon. It was discovered in 1817 by Bréon on the island of Bourbon among a number of seedlings of different sorts which were pulled together to make a hedge. Since then a large number of varieties and also hybrids have been produced from it. Although its origins are quite dark, one can presume with high probability that it is a hybrid descending from R. chinensis and R. damascena omnium calendarium. Its habit is generally strong; the branches usually shorter and thicker than those of the Tea and Bengal rose, ending in larger or smaller clustersof blooms depending on its vigour. The bark is very smooth, the prickles short, strong, wide at the base and curved at the tip. The leaflets are dark green, ovoid, rounded and serrated, standing to 3,5 or 7 on the petiole. The ovary is round, often short and expanded. Bourbon roses love rich soil and demand, with exception of the vigorous sorts, short pruning. They generally do not need special care and require only adequate protection against winter frosts. The shorter sorts are most suitably grown as own roots, while those which are moderately vigorous can be used for dwarf standards, the vigorous varieties on the other hand for standards, beautiful bushy plants and as pillar roses.
Book  (1855)  Page(s) Appendix p. xxii.  
 
David Lester Richardson, Principal of the Hindu Metropolitan College
The Madras rose, or Rose Edward, a variety of R. centifolia, Gul ssudburuk, is the most common, and has multiplied so fast within a few years, that no garden is without it; it blossoms all the year round, producing large bunches of buds at the extremities of its shoots of the year; but, if handsome, well-shaped flowers are desired, these must be thinned out on their first appearance, to one or two, or at the most three on each stalk. It is a pretty flower, but has little fragrance. This and the other double sorts require a rich loam rather inclining to clay, and they must be kept moist.
Magazine  (1851)  Page(s) 77.  
 
...D'après M. Loiseleur-Deslongchamps, "M. Jacques, jardinier du domaine de Neuilly, reçut en 1819, de l'ile Bourbon, et par Bréon , qui était à cette époque directeur des jardins royaux de cette ile, des graines d'un rosier qu'il sema et qui lui produisirent une nouvelle variété remarquable. En raison des différences assez prononcées qu'elle présentait avec le Bengale ordinaire, cette variété fut considérée par les horticulteurs comme une espèce particulière, et reçut le nom de rosier de l'ile Bourbon.
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