Website/Catalog (9 Aug 2013)
Name: 'Purity'
ARS Approved Exhibition Name: Purity
LCl, w, 1917, Farrell; flowers pure unshaded white, 4 in., semi-dbl., globular, borne in small clusters, slight fragrance; some autumn repeat; foliage bronze-green, glossy; prickles heavy; vigorous, climbing growth. [(R. wichurana × Marion Dingee) × Mme Caroline Testout]
Book (Nov 1994) Page(s) 254.
Purity Hoopes (US) 1917. Description... pure white flowers, loosely double, showing yellow stamens...
Book (Apr 1993) Page(s) 477.
Purity Large-flowered Climber, pure unshaded white, 1917, Seedling x 'Mme. Caroline Testout'; Hoopes, Bros. Description.
Book (Feb 1993) Page(s) 147. Includes photo(s).
Purity Large-flowered climber. Parentage: Unnamed seedling x 'Mme. Caroline Testout'. USA 1917. Description and cultivation... Produces large, pure white, shapely flowers which are loose and semi-double...
Book (Jun 1992) Page(s) 222.
Purity Hoopes Bros. & Thomas Co., 1917. Hybrid Tea. Parentage: an unnamed seedling x 'Mme Caroline Testout'. [Author cites information from different sources.]
Book (May 1992) Page(s) 318-319.
Purity Hoopes Bros & Thomas (USA) 1917. Unnamed seedling x 'Mme Caroline Testout'. Large, pure white, shapely flowers... Foliage light green and glossy... somewhat thorny...
Book (1936) Page(s) 588.
Purity (hybrid wichurana) Hoopes & Thomas 1917; Wich.-seedling X Testout; pure white, medium to large, semi-double, open, lasting, to 15-30, fragrance 5/10, once-blooming, slight repeat, strong stems, growth 8/10, climbing, 3 m. Sangerhausen
Book (1933) Page(s) 208.
'Purity'. Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas Co., 1917. Remarkably fine Wichuraiana of the large-flowered type. Big, cup-shaped, pure white flowers borne with remarkable freedom. Plant is excessively thorny and extremely vigorous, but ranks near the top among white climbers.
Website/Catalog (1929) Page(s) 55.
Hardy Climbing Roses
Purity. Hybrid Wichuraiana. (Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas Co., 1917.) Pure white, cupped flowers of splendid size, borne profusely in long sprays. A strong climbing plant with excellent foliage.
Midseason to late. Flowers not as beautiful as Silver Moon, but hardier and blooms longer. This variety and Mary Lovett are the hardiest pure white climbers with large flowers of Hybrid Tea form and substance. Mary Lovett has more petals and a rather flat camellia form, Purity is not so full and is deeply cup-shaped. Both are beautiful and desirable.
Website/Catalog (1925) Page(s) 20.
Purity.—A semi-double white of exceptional size and beauty. Pronounced one of the finest white roses in cultivation. Heavy 2-year-old field-grown plants, each, $1.00; dozen, $10.00,
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