Commercially available

• "Cottonwood Cemetery Blush Rose"
• "Legacy of Samuel Briggs #2"
• "Mme Bréon fils"
• Mrs. Bosanquet
• Pauline Bonaparte (bourbon, Laffay, 1832)
• "Petaluma Blush"
• Thé Sapho

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Light pink Bourbon.
Exhibition name: Mistress Bosanquet

Bred by Jean Laffay (France, 1832).
Introduced in Australia by John J. Rule, Victoria Nursery in 1857 as 'Mrs. Bosanquet'.

Bourbon, China / Bengale.  

Blush, white edges, silver(y) undertones.  Moderate fragrance.  Medium to large, very full (41+ petals), borne mostly solitary, cupped-to-flat bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Glandular sepals, long sepals buds.  

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USDA zone 5b through 10b.  

Diploid

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A Jacob Bosanquet, was a Director of the East India Co., elected 1782.
A copy of the rose from the National Plant Collection of Victor Lewis, Braintree, Essex, was planted in Sangerhausen after 2011.