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'Egeria' rose Reviews & Comments
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Catalogo F.lli Giacomasso 1940-41 page 3
Egeria – H.T. (Comm. Aicardi) - Novità 1940
Un fiore grandissimo che si può paragonare ad una peonia! Rosso mattone scuro a unghia gialla con striature di arancio sulla pagina esteriore dei petali. Di forma squisita, sarà una rosa di grande effetto, prodiga di fiori durante tutta la stagione. Profumata (Vedi foto a colori a pag. 5)
Translation : A very large flower that can be compared to a peony! Dark red brick with yellow nail with streaks of orange on the outer page of the petals. Exquisitely shaped, it will be a very impressive rose, lavish with flowers throughout the season. Scented (see color photo on page 5)
NOTE: thus the unknown breeder is Domenico Aicardi
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Thanks Bruna. Breeder and date altered to Aicardi before 1940. Reference added.
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What are the chances that 'Egeria' might still be alive somewhere?
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#3 of 5 posted
17 JAN 19 by
 Cà Berta
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Not many, I am afraid.The roses of that period that are still with us either were planted in the Rose Garden of Rome (and from there the material was given by the Curator Rolando Zandri to Professor Fineschi who had it propagated in his Roseto di Cavriglia) or were marketed by many nurseries and thus they were quite widespread on the territory). Egeria was not in Rome and appears only in the catalogs of F.lli Giacomasso and of Sgaravatti. Sgaravatti, however, was one of the main nursery in Italy and had Egeria in the catalogue for some years .. We hope that having found an image of this rose it can help to recognize it if it still exists in some old garden.
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How disappointing. I suppose we Americans have this unrealistic and romantic notion that while we are always moving, Europeans remain on the ancestral acres for decades if not centuries.
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#5 of 5 posted
19 JAN 19 by
Cà Berta
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The real problem is that, while in the USA there were already a few large nurseries that sold thousands and thousands of copies of a rose, in Italy there were many nurseries that sold, besides "international" roses, their own roses in a few copies because the local market was very small. Besides .. Italian esterophilia is proverbial and we do not price much our production .. the grass is always greenest on the other side
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A description of a rose called 'Egeria' is given in Sgaravatti's April 1943 catalogue as "Fiore molto grande, di forma elegante di colore attraente vivace: rosso mattone scuro e giallo" (Large flower with an elegant form and bright attractive colour: dark brick red and yellow.)
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