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'Chinese Monthly Rose' References
Book  (1994)  Page(s) 11.  
 
Indicae... roses of China... Most likely all of them are selected garden forms taken into gardens centuries ago by the Chinese...
Book  (Dec 1993)  Page(s) 69.  
 
Slater's Crimson China brought the richer and purer reds we now find in many roses. Previously the crimsons invariably turned to purple and mauves...
Book  (Nov 1993)  Page(s) 16, 18, 27.  
 
Page 16: Brought to England in 1792
Page 18: The first rose to reach [New Zealand] arrived on the brig 'Active' on Christmas Day 1814. On board was a party of the Church Missionary Society from England, led by the Reverend Samuel Marsden, which included four women, and it seems that 'one or more of these women cared for at least one rose on the journey and it was carried ashore with loving care along with the stores'. The missionaries settled at a place called Oihi, near Rangihoua Pa in the Bay of Islands, and the rose ... was planted and grew. As Nancy Steen records, a border of this small rose was planted from cuttings of the Oihi rose in 1822, by Samuel Butler, in front of the newly built Kemp homestead at the head of the Kerikeri Inlet. Kemp House is now preserved as the oldest wooden house in New Zealand.
Page 27: 'Slater's Crimson China', R. indica (later corrected to chinensis to show that it came from China, not India) semperflorens
Book  (Sep 1993)  Page(s) 20.  
 
(R. indica; 'China Rose") The wild form … grows in the remote mountains of Western China … it is the most important wild species. All our repeat-blooming Modern Garden Roses are hybrids of it. Repeats.
Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 555.  
 
Slater's Crimson China China, cherry red, ('Chinese Monthly Rose'; 'Crimson China Rose'; 'Old Crimson China'; R. bengalensis Persoon; R. chinensis semperflorens (Curtis) Koehne; R. diversifolia Ventenat; R. indica semperflorens (Curtis) Seringe; R. semperflorens Curtis); A specimen dated 1733 is in the British Museum; ca. 1790.
Book  (1993)  Page(s) 39, 103.  Includes photo(s).
 
Page 39: [PHOTO] Slater's Crimson China ('Semperflorens', Rosa indica, 'La Bengale') Illustrated by Redouté in Les Roses.  We have photographed fresh roses with the drawing to compare the rose as grown today with Redoute’s painting of 1821.

Page 103: [PHOTO] ('Slater's Crimson China', 'Semperflorens', 'Bengale À Bouquets' (of Redouté)) China. a dwarf China with very slender stalks.  An old Chinese garden rose introduced to Europe 1792. Repeat flowering. Height: 3 ft. Little scent. 
Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 34.  
 
Slater's Crimson China ('Old Crimson', 'Semperflorens') China. Slater, 1790. [Author cites information from different sources.]
Book  (1988)  Page(s) 32, 42.  
 
Page 32: in 1956 the locally known [in Bermuda] 'Belfield Rose' was identified as the original 'Slater's Crimson China'.
Page 42: Slater's Crimson China... known to have been in Italy earlier than 1792, the date of its arrival in England when it was introduced by Mr. Gilbert Slater of Leytonstone, and became known as 'Slater's Crimson China'... The colour of this little rose was intense, more so than any other rose at that time and, widely disseminated, there is some belief that all red long-flowering roses today owe something to 'Slater's Crimson'.
Book  (1988)  Page(s) 504.  
 
Jacquin, China (OGR)m ('Bengal Rose'; 'China Rose'; R. chinensis indica Lindley) … [see MR10] Cultivated 1759. Flowers crimson or pink, rarely whitish, about 2 in. diam., borne usually several, less often solitary, on long stems, rarely short-stemmed; not or slightly fragrant; foliage evergreen or partially so; fruit obovoid or turbinate, about 3/4 in. long; recurrent. China
Book  (1988)  Page(s) 15.  
 
'Slater's Crimson China' [was] lost for years, than found again in 1956, naturalized in Bermuda! To this, or something similar, we owe the origin of the first east-west hybrid … the 'Duchess of Portland' … the other parent was maybe a Gallica or Damask… it came to England around 1800 … it was the first hybrid to combine the eastern genes for extended flowering with the western ones for hardiness and vigour, and it was the bringer of red into our garden roses.
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