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"Cottonwood Cemetery Blush Rose" References
Magazine  (2019)  Page(s) 49. Vol 41, No. 1.  
 
Margaret Furness.  Tea, Noisette and China Mislabels in Australia.
Roses distributed here as Mistress Bosanquet or “Dunoon” are Homère
Newsletter  (Nov 2014)  Page(s) 20-21.  
 
‘Pauline Bonaparte’, bred by Laffay in 1832, is listed as a light pink bourbon rose. Thomas Rivers claimed it was an “unrivalled” blush rose. I agree. The pink is so pale as to be nearly white, and the plant produces its flowers prolifically. Should it lose its leaves from blackspot, not to worry, for it quickly sends out new foliage and soon afterward another flush of lovely flowers.....As ‘Mrs. Bosanquet’ the rose was named for the wife of Englishman George J. Bosanquet, Esq. of Broxbournebury. They lived in a 16th century mansion where they grew one of the largest and finest rose collections of that time. A few good specimens were still growing there in 1910....
But the rose at Mottisfont is a strong, clear pink—nothing pale or blushing about it. I would suggest it is not ‘Pauline Bonaparte’, that is, not if it’s meant to be synonymous with ‘Mrs. Bosanquet’. After all, the rose is not sold anywhere except in the United States. Perhaps this Mottisfont rose is among the fifty or so mislabeled roses that Graham Thomas and David Stone received in the 1980s from Sangerhausen.
Newsletter  (Nov 2011)  Page(s) 5.  
 
[From "Trip to Chico", by Jill Perry, pp. 5-7]
The other cemetery was the source of a couple plants at the Heritage, a ‘Mme Plantier’ and a ‘Mistress Bosanquet’. In fact, the Heritage has seven plants of ‘Mistress Bosanquet’. Two were collected by different people at this cemetery, Cottonwood, and given different study names. Two were collected at two other cemeteries in California, and another was also a found rose, but we don’t know where the donor found it. We have two plants each from two of these sources. It was fairly recently that we realized that the five different source roses were all the same....One of the study names for the rose was “Samuel Briggs #2,” so I know that must be the name on the headstone; but a Foetida rose, a hybrid of Persian Yellow perhaps, has taken up most of the plot and covers the name on the headstone. The 1893 date is still visible. 
Newsletter  (Oct 2009)  Page(s) 4. Vol 30, No. 3.  Includes photo(s).
 
Photo Mrs. Bosanquet  photo copyright 2009 Jocelen Janon.  
Booklet  (2009)  Page(s) 29.  
 
Diploid....Mrs. Bosanquet, heterozygous loci 74% [Provenance: Antique Rose Emporium]
Website/Catalog  (2006)  Page(s) 45.  
 
Mistress Bosanquet B.  rrrr / f / 1.   Laffay 1832.  [Robinson found] 
Compact and supremely beautiful, a ghostly slate pink, fragile of form.  This compactly growing Bourbon might be taken for a Tea rose but for its greyish bloomy foliage and upright flowers. 
Book  (Apr 2005)  Page(s) 55.  
 
P-9-34. P-9-15. Mrs. Bosanquet [Mistress Bosanquet]. Ch/B 1832 / 1832, Laffay
[=Mrs. Bosanquet (per Dickerson)?] - see Pauline Bonaparte
O-10-19 Mrs. Bosanquet (received as “Legacy of Samuel Briggs # 2”) [Mistress Bosanquet] Ch B 1832, Laffay.
[=Mrs. Bosanquet?] - see “Dye Plot China/Bourbon”
[=Mrs. Bosanquet?] - see “Petaluma Blush”
[=Mrs. Bosanquet?] - see “Powder Puff Tea”
Book  (2000)  Page(s) 514.  
 
Now, in 1832, we come to a familiar name.  Laffay introduced 'Mrs. Bosanquet' in 1832, a rose much like his 'Faustine' of the previous year, as we see;  what is more, it is a rose still very much in commerce. We will leave description of it here to Hoffmann and his translator Weathers, writing in 1905: "Medium Size, full, cupped, white tinted with pink, fragrant, flowering till autumn.  An old charming Rose of moderate growth and established merit."  And the Journal des Roses adds something in its "Flat in the form of a camellia;  color, white shaded peach-pink."  That was the only Bourbon introduced by anyone in 1832!
Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 100-101.  
 
Mrs. Bosanquet ('Mistress Bosanquet', 'Thé Sapho', Pauline Bonaparte') Bourbon. Laffay, 1832. The author cites information from different sources... Very soft pink flower of much charm... Rosy flesh... [George J. Bosanquet, Esq., had a fine collection of roses at Broxbournebury, England]
Book  (1991)  Page(s) 110, 124.  
 
p110  David Ruston.  The Fourth World Heritage Rose Conference, Christchurch, N.Z.   
Our last port of call was the nursery garden 'Roseneath' jointly owned by Alan Sinclair and Theo Verryt.....I have beern collecting tea roses for a number of years and was able to add Mrs. Bosanquet to my list of "Wanted Ones"

p124  ibid.  ....visited Nigel and Judy Pratt of Tasman Bay Roses.....We checked up on a number of varieties and thought that the tea rose Mrs. Bosanquet in New Zealand is identical to 'Homere' in Australia.  
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