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'Spencer' rose Reviews & Comments
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25 DEC by
odinthor
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Surely this rose is named after the poet Edmund Spenser (ca. 1552-January 13, 1599), William Paul not only having a penchant for naming roses after poets ('Milton', 'Tennyson') and other writers ('Charles Lamb'), but he also discusses poet Spenser in his book The Rose Garden.
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10 DEC 15 by
 Nastarana
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American Gardener
magazine January, 1893, p.15
..."a very fine hybrid remontant, satin-pink, shaded with white, very large, full, and of compact form with robust growth;..."
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#1 of 1 posted
10 DEC 15 by
Patricia Routley
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Reference added. I have presumed they spelt it 'Spencer'?
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20 AUG 12 by
Monique
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The Spencer I have looks very different from the foto in the book The Quest for the Rose (page 97); I also have Enfant de France and it look's to me that both roses are the same! Maybe some day I'll find out which is the correct Spencer
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15 OCT 09 by
kahlenberg
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i have never heard that a sport of a non-scented rose turns out to be highly-fragrant. quite interesting!
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#1 of 3 posted
16 OCT 09 by
jedmar
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I wonder where the "strong fragrance" designation came from. It is not in the references.
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#2 of 3 posted
17 OCT 09 by
kahlenberg
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yes, and i wonder, if anyone has ever doubted the lineage, or mabe the plant in commerce today is a different one, because at the photos bloom-form and habit as well look so very different from merveille de lyon. the flowers pictured are rather like that of damasks and merveille de lyon is not a bit arching but very upright - not like the rose on the photo of collection loubert. merveille de lyon-blooms do not have this powderpuffshaped appearence, not even when aged; they rather look like waterlilies.
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#3 of 3 posted
17 OCT 09 by
Robert Neil Rippetoe
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The 'Spencer' I had here for several years, from Sequoia Nsy., was identical the cultivar received 'Enfant de France' from Regan Nsy.
They were both Spring flowering only in my climate and heavily fragrant.
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