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'Souvenir of Wootton' rose Reviews & Comments
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The 1913 Biltmore Rose Catalog says, "One of the old popular Roses that has been gown in many gardens over a long period of years. The color is magenta-red, with violet shadings, and commands the attention for a long time when one first beholds it. The flowers are abundantly produced during the entire growing season, and are of fine fragrance. The buds are large and shapely, slowly unfolding into full and regular proportions. The growth of the plant is strong, erect and sturdy, and bears its wealth of blooms well up above the foliage on long, stiff stems. None of the newer varieties has supplanted this Rose in the estimation of many admirers, and on account of its many virtues, is likely to increase in popularity with the coming years. Souvenir de Wootton Rose offers many possibilities for color effects when combined with the brighter red, pink or pure white Roses that will be found in every garden. It is a Rose of peculiar beauty when contrasted with white or flesh tints."
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Available from - Glenorie Roses
brucetreloar@gmail.com
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Are you sure of the veracity of this one Ozeboy? I thought only the climber was available in Australia.
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#2 of 12 posted
23 APR 10 by
kev
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ozeboy is quiet correct here .the best source is our mr.rose himself David Ruston of Renmark who lists it and has it in his collection.his list is available online and is a great reference to have.kev.
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Hello kev. I do see in David's 2003-2004 Collection listing, on p36 that he is listing 'Souvenir of Wootton' hybrid tea, 1888. However correspondence from Pat Toolan and Margaret Furness who have spent much time in David's garden helping him to prune etc, wrote to me in 2006: <i>"Once again we were stopped in our tracks by .....and yet again by a pillar rose labeled 'Souvenir of Wootton', but which appears to be its sport 'Climbing Wootton' circa 1897 HT from Butler/Craig – bright magenta red full blooms beckoning us from afar." </i>
Perhaps when someone is next at Renmark, they could confirm for you that the plant at David Ruston's garden is the 1897 climber, and not the 1888 bush.
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#3 of 12 posted
24 APR 10 by
 Cass
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It would be nice to see a photo of the rose.
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we have the only souvenir de wootton in existance (that we know of) here in Baltimore, a cutting was sent to us from sangerhousen and the original plant there has since been destroyed. I will upload some photos but helpmefind has to approve of those and post them. our wootton is growing in a public garden and we have successfully rooted cuttings
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The plant at Renmark has been hacked back to bush size. When we first saw it, it was behaving like a pillar rose.
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A plant at Renmark, grown from the original one on David Ruston's property, is definitely a climber. I'll photograph it when it's in flower.
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We look forward to seeing that Margaret.
Here is a rose which came to me as 'Souvenir of Wootton' and my provenance reads something like: Rustons-1; a lady-2; a man who budded it on to R. multiflora-3; a nursery who shipped it to WA-4; in 2009. To date it has not climbed, but in this garden I wouldn't place too much importance on that. I have listed it in my garden records as 'Climbing Wootton'. However, I am having difficulty in reconciling my rose with the photo of 'Clg. Wootton' in the Heritage Roses in Australia journal Winter 2006, page 58.
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I think we got a wrong'un the first time round from the same source, and had it re-budded. I'll have to wait till it flowers to double-check the one we have now. The original plant is still there, if needed.
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Re the photo of 'Clg. Wootton' in the Heritage Roses in Australia journal Winter 2006, page 58. It may have been the rose that was circulating as 'Argosy'?
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That issue is of course the one missing from my collection. But if it's the photo I posted on hmf under Cl Wootton, the plant wasn't / isn't growing among Clark roses. There are Clark roses growing isolated elsewhere at Ruston's, but that's as much as I can offer till flowering season.
14 Nov 2014: I missed the spring flush, but have posted a whole-plant photo to show that what we have in the HRIAI Collection is definitely a climber.
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#12 of 12 posted
8 JUN 19 by
Ms.Lefty
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Todd - Fellow Baltimoron here! I'm wondering whether your Souvenir de Wooten is still alive and growing (at Cylburn, I assume), and whether you (or anybody else) been able to propagate it.
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Homecoming for a rose
Susan Reimer, The Baltimore Sun, April 23, 2010
The rose "Souvenir of Wootton," believed to be the first tea rose hybridized in the United States, will return to its home Saturday, April 24, and be planted in Baltimore's Cylburn Arboretum Rose Garden.
The rose was hubridized in 1888 in Baltimore by florist John Cook. A cross between "Bon Silene" and "Louis Van Houtte," it has long been "missing." In fact, only three of the 28 roses Cook bred were found during searches by the Maryland Rose Society following the rededication of a statue to Cook at the Baltimore Conservatory in 1989.
Cook is also well known as the father of "Radiance," one of the most popular hybrid teas.
In 2002, the "Souvenier of Wootton" was discovered along with another Cook rose in a garden in Germany but the cuttings did not survive shipment to this country. Another attempt to ship the cuttings was made and "Sourvenir" arrived safely in February of 2009.
Many of the roses Cook hybridized have distinctly Baltimore names: "Frances Scott Key," "Pearl of Baltimore," "Preakness," and "Baltimore."
There is also a "Souvenir of Miami" because that's where the Cook family vacationed for years.
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I'm sorry, but I don't know where to place this further reply to my initial response about the 'Souvenir of Wootton' photos. (When I did "click here" it took me to an old discussion of another rose of four years ago.)
Here again is my latest reply re: 'Souvenir of Wootton:
I know what my supposed 'Sou. of Wootton' really is--it's 'Reine des Violettes'. It was Gregg Lowery who pointed this out to me, and then we did comparison studies with the another 'Reine des Violettes'.
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I have moved your photos for you.
I hope that Cliff Orent and Harbor Rose Garden (?) will see this and realise what their roses are - and move their photos too.
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