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'Sarah Isabella Gill' rose References
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Newsletter (Nov 2013) Page(s) 11.
[From "California's oldest surviving roses", by Darrell Schramm]
Nurseryman Edward Cooper Gill (1840–1909), whose great love was roses, introduced Sarah Isabella Gill. Gill founded the E. Gill Nursery in 1866, and by 1889 he had purchased 104 acres southwest of Albany near Berkeley on San Pablo Avenue. Gill described the yellowish tea rose in his 1884 catalog as “Outer petals cream, tinted with pale carmine, fawn center.” Tea roses, like hybrid perpetual roses, are predecessors to hybrid teas. Still offered for sale in 1904, Sarah Isabella Gill was Californias first commercial rose, and the states first tea rose.
Article (newsletter) (Aug 2013) Page(s) 6.
In California Edward Gill of the Albany & Berkeley area deserves mention. Though his propagated roses have not survived, he appears to have been the first Californian to produce his own roses and introduce them commercially. One of these roses was a tea, ‘Sarah Isabella Gill’, offered in his nursery catalogue in 1884; whether this was a sport or one of his own seedlings is not clear.
Book (1936) Page(s) 298.
Gill, Sarah Isabella (tea) Gill 1897; deep golden-yellow, center shaded tender apricot or peach, floriferous.
Magazine (1903) Page(s) 446.
Four hundred varieties are to be found there, among them a few of Mr. Gill's own, notably the Mrs. Cleveland, a rich red of the Jacqueminot type, and Sarah Elisabeth Gill.
Book (1902) Page(s) 81.
Thé. 1976. Sarah Isabelle Gill (Gill 1897), jaune pêche
Book (1899) Page(s) 160.
Sarah Isabella Gill, thé, Gill, 1897, jaune centre pêche
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