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'Blumenschmidt' rose References
Magazine  (Dec 2021)  Page(s) 33. Vol 43, No. 4.  
 
Lynne Chapman and Billy West. A Close Look at Tea Roses
3. Incorrectly identified Tea roses, where we have been able to establish the correct name. A Tea rose is in commerce around the world today as Souvenir d’Élise Vardon, a rose which early colour descriptions tell us was light straw yellow or yellowish white to delicate light pink. The rose often sold under this name seems too brightly coloured to match these descriptions but we know that the colours of Tea roses can vary. So we needed more to go on and Paquet and Rouillard provided more in the year it was introduced, describing the peduncles of Souvenir d’Élise Vardon, as ‘showing little brownish hairs along their whole length’ and the receptacle also as ‘sprinkled with little brownish hairs’.

Glands or hairs or both, they are not present on the shiny, smooth pedicels of the rose sold as Souvenir d’Élise Vardon today, so careful observations from the 1850s gave us proof that this rose was misidentified - but what was it? Fortunately, the same rose is also in commerce under another name, its correct name, Mlle Franziska Krüger, 1879 and, as well as early descriptions matching, we have the proof of identity from a colour sport, Blumenschmidt which occurred in Germany and was released in 1905. Like its parent, it can show a hard green centre which occasionally contains many tiny buds.
Book  (2000)  Page(s) 123.  
 
‘Blumenschmidt’ = Thé. Jadis en vogue, ce rosier thé a presque disparu: il est vrai qu’il est peu rustique et exige chaleur et soleil. Sa fleur très grande et pleine entoure de pétales roses son large cœur jaune primevère, ponctué d’un œil vert au centre. Le buisson, bas et compact, porte un feuillage sain et luisant, bien résistant aux maladies. Schmidt, Allemagne, 1906.
Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 57.  
 
Blumenschmidt Tea, primrose yellow, outer petals rose-pink, 1906, 'Mlle. Franziska Kruger' sport; Schmidt, J.C.
Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 43.  
 
Blumenschmidt Tea. J.-C. Schmidt, 1905. Sport of 'Mlle Franziska Krüger'. [Author cites information from different sources.]
Book  (1940)  Page(s) 23.  
 
Blumenschmidt Tea. (J.C. Schmidt, 1906)... primrose-yellow, outer petals rose-pink...
Website/Catalog  (1936)  Page(s) 5.  
 
Blumenschmidt (J.C. Schmidt 1905) Description.
Book  (1936)  Page(s) 87.  
 
Blumenschmidt (T) Kiese at J.C. Schmidt 1906; Sport of Franziska Krüger; light lemon-yellow, pink towards the edges, large, very double, solitary, fragrance 5/10, ccontinuous bloomer, lasting, long stems, arching, delicate foliage, growth 7/10, well-branched. Sangerhausen
Website/Catalog  (1933)  Page(s) 91.  
 
Blumenschmidt (Tea). Light citron (1 ea/ga). Unexcelled autumn-bloomer...Low garden plants 1 piece RM [Reichsmark] -.60,  semi-standards 1 piece RM 1.-, standards 1 piece RM 1.60
Website/Catalog  (1927)  Page(s) 36.  
 
Worth-while Roses.
Yellow Roses.
Field-grown, strong 2-year plants, $1 each, $7.50 for 10, $50 per 100
Blumenschmidt.  Tea.  Color deep golden yellow of the richest and purest shade.  Where Roses are grown in the open for cut-flowers, this Rose should be planted, as it ranks with Wm. R. Smith, Helen Gould, White and Pink Maman Cochets.
Website/Catalog  (1925)  Page(s) 82.  
 
Tea Roses...Blumenschmidt. Pure lemon-yellow, passing to soft pink. Unexcelled autumn-bloomer...Low-grafted garden plants 1 piece G.-M. [Gold-Mark] 1.- standards, semi-standards
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