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'Miss Edith Cavell' rose References
Book  (1978)  Page(s) 157.  
 
'Miss Edith Cavell'. Shorter. Bright crimson. Remontant. Perfume 2 [ascending scale of merit from 1 to 10] . Hips I [ascending scale of merit from 1 to 10]. This rose began the career of a famous breeder, Gerrit de Ruiter of Hazerswoude, Holland. He was cutting budwood of ‘Orleans Rose' in August 1914, when he found a shoot bearing red flowers. After propagation and trial, he found it to be good, and it was introduced by Jan Spek in 1917. If the date of discovery is correct, which it should be, for De Ruiter himself stated it, and August 1914 is the kind of date one remembers, then a remarkably short time passed in working up stock for introduction. The Dutch have nothing to learn about propagation; they will turn one rose bush into thousands in twelve months, by grafting every eye under heat, starting in early winter. The grafts are joined in three weeks, and have shoots in six or seven, which provide more eyes for the next batch of grafts. De Ruiter said he had four plants of 'Miss Edith Cavell' in 1915, and allowing 20 possible grafts per plant, that would give the propagator 80 young plants by the winter. Say he struck ten from each, and he has 800; and he would be capable of multiplying by ten again, to have 8000 by the summer. If he wished, he could then propagate out of doors to have 80,000 plants on sale for autumn of 1917. These figures leave out of consideration the stock of old plants which remain from each stage. Such haste is by no means the rule, but there was an incentive applying to sports, that somebody else might find a similar one.
'Miss Edith Cavell' was a great improvement on any red in the class; dark yet brilliant, its little flowers were so close in the large trusses as to make a crimson carpet. The name gave some trouble, because another 'Edith Cavell' was introduced in England in 1918 by Chaplin Brothers, a cream Hybrid Tea. De Ruiter's variety was prefixed for a time by Nurse, and finally settled for Miss.
De Ruiter specialized in Polyanthas, and in finding sports among them, but it was some years before he began to breed roses. He soon made a name at that, and one of his sons, Gysbert, has continued since his father's death. Breeders cannot foresee what others will get from their roses; 'Miss Edith Cavell' led to 'Robin Hood', and thus to 'Iceberg' .

p158.The wonderful colours of 'Golden Salmon'  and 'Gloria Mundi' were no help to breeders at all. These sports were of the kind where only the exterior tissue changed; the  interior tissue, including the sexual system, behaved as if the sports had not occurred.   A possible exception  to this is  'Miss Edith Cavell', one  of the ancestors of 'Baby Chateau', through which the pelargonium colours eventually came to modern roses. 
Newsletter  (1961)  Page(s) 1959.  
 
Miss Edith Cavell, G. de RUITER (Nederland), 1917; Polyantha; (sport van Orléans Rose) = Edith Cavell (25; 29); Nurse Cavell (29)
Book  (1958)  Page(s) 238.  
 
Miss Edith Cavell (Edith Cavell). Pol. (de Ruiter; int. Spek, '17.) Orléans Rose sport. Full, globular, scarlet-crimson overlaid velvety crimson; cluster. Fol. rich green, leathery, glossy. Vig.; profuse bloom. (14)
Book  (1955)  Page(s) 95.  
 
My Masteriece. G. de Ruiter Hazerswoude, Holland. It was August 1914 , when cutting budwood as a youth , I found a I pretty red flowering shoot amongst a lot of pink polyantha roses, var. Orleans Rose. This I thought a great deviation of colour. Off this shoot a year later I had grown four bushes. This was the start of my first novelty , the polyantha rose Miss Edith Cavell .
Website/Catalog  (1942)  Page(s) 17.  
 
Wight's Georgia-Grown Roses
Polyanthus Roses (Dwarf)
Edith Cavell. Small, double, deep red.
Book  (1936)  Page(s) 134.  
 
Cavell, Miss Edith (polyantha) de Ruyter 1932; glossy crimson, short habit.
Book  (1936)  Page(s) 135.  
 
Cavell, Nurse (?) ? ? ; dark red
Website/Catalog  (1936)  Page(s) 4.  
 
Edith Cavell Polyantha. Fl. rouge écarlate brillant [brilliant scarlet red]
Book  (1934)  
 
Edith Cavell (poly. pom.): Flower brilliant scarlet overlaid with velvety crimson, produced in trusses of immense size. Growth vigorous, glistening foliage; Mildew free. One of the finest Polyantha Roses in existence.
Nurse Cavell (poly pom.): Flower a dark red sport from “Orleans” Rose. Growth dwarf. Bed. B.
Nurse Edith Cavell: Brilliant scarlet overlaid with velvety crimson; produced in large trusses.
Website/Catalog  (1927)  Page(s) 90.  
 
Polyanthas...Miss Edith Cavell (1918), blackish blood-red, very much appreciated as a dark red Polyantha Rose. 1 piece M 0.80, 10 pieces M 7.-, 100 pieces M 65.-
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