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The Rose. A complete Handbook
(1965)  
 
p418 The third or R. wichuraiana group includes the following: Alberic Barbier, Albertine, American Pillar, Dr. Van Fleet, Easlea’s Golden Rambler, Emily Gray, Leontine Gervaise and Yvonne. These are among the most vigorous growers and will make canes up to 10 ft in length in a single season. As to pruning, they may be classed as coming somewhere between the climbers, which also includes the New Dawn group, and those ramblers which form their new growth at the base. They will not form as many basal shoots, but to make up for this will make new growth from the main stems between 2-4 ft from the ground and will also form numerous laterals. The stems should be encouraged to form a continuous supply of new wood and this is done by cutting back those shoots which have borne flowers to the point where a new shoot is breaking.

p425 Leontine Gervais. 1903. R. wichuraiana x Souvenir de Catherine Guillot. One of Barbier’s introductions, it is of very vigorous habit with plenty of glossy foliage, and has lovely, rosy-salmon flowers, flushed with crimson.

p432 Leontine Gervais grows 20ft or more.
(1965)  Page(s) 247.  
 
‘Lord Rossmore’ (Dr. Campbell Hall). An old rose, now rarely to be found, it is considered by exhibitors to bear the most refined and perfectly formed of all rose blooms, the large, symmetrical flowers being if ivory –white, edged with rose pink. It makes a plant of vigorous, upright growth. Exhibition.
(1965)  
 
p36.  From the second half of the nineteenth century, breeders began to cross the tea roses with the hybrid perpetuals,  and in 1867, from a batch of seedlings raised from a crossing of the hybrid perpetual Mme. Victor Verdier, with the tea rose Madame Bravy,  Monsieur Guillot at Lyons selected one which differed from all the others.    It was named La France by the Horticultural Society of Lyons......

p582.  Mme. Bravy.  Tea rose  4ft. 
 
(1965)  Page(s) 277.  
 
At the same time as Henri Guillot was raising the hybrid polyantha roses Pacquerette and Mignonette, Pernet-Ducher was crossing R. multiflora to the pink tea rose Madame de Tartas, and from this he obtained the hybrid polyantha Cecile Brunner. 
(1965)  
 
p402 The first R. wichuraiana variety to appear was May Queen in 1899. It was a strong grower and of such hardiness as to make it suitable for planting against a north wall. Its warm-pink flowers carry a delicious perfume, but of greater importance was its healthy mildew-resistant foliage, which was a great improvement on that of the species. With 'May Queen' appeared' Evergreen Gem' and 'Jersey Beauty', the latter still in commerce...

p425. 'May Queen'. 1899. The first R. wichuraiana rambler, and a most vigorous grower with glossy, disease-free foliage, which makes it suitable for a wall. The flowers are large and of a lovely shade of warm pink, deliciously perfumed.

p432. Rambler roses with attractive foliage: 'May Queen'

p432. Rambler roses with strongly fragrant flowers: 'May Queen'

p581. 'May Queen' R. wichuraiana. 20 ft.
(1965)  Page(s) 436.  
 
'Meg'. 1954. 'Paul's Lemon Pillar' x 'Mme. Butterfly'. Unusual and beautiful in that the semi-double blooms are 6 in. across and of a lovely shade of shell-pink, coral, and peach with crimson stamens. Received the N.R.S. gold medal. It may be considered to be almost perpetual-flowering, and attains a height of about 12 ft.
(1965)  Page(s) 260.  
 
'Royalist' (McGredy), 1953. A vigorous tall-grower, it has dark green foliage and comes early into bloom, the deep cerise-pink blooms being enhanced by the dark foliage.
(1965)  Page(s) 33.  
 
In the same year (1838) appeared Safrano, raised from crossing Jeune Desprez with Park's Yellow.
 
(1965)  Page(s) 328.  
 
'Sherry' (McGredy).1960. 'Independence' x 'Orange Sweetheart'. A completely new colour in roses and lovely to grow alongside 'Golden Slippers' and 'Woburn Abbey', for it makes a plant of low, compact habit, and bears hybrid-tea-type blooms of a lovely golden-sherry colour.
(1965)  
 
p73 'Sir Winston Churchill' , ‘Baccara, ‘First Love’, ‘Karl Herbst’, ‘Signora’ and…… gave a most disappointing display during the adverse summers of 1960, 1962 and 1963 when observed blooming throughout Britain, where in many areas outdoor temperatures rarely exceeded 54 degrees F., with considerably reduced temperatures at nightfall. To provide colour in the garden these roses are not to be recommended for planting in Britain, though exhibitors may grow them.

p261 'Sir Winston Churchill' (Alex Dickson). 1955. With so illustrious a name, it should be an outstanding rose, but in Britain its beautifully shaped blooms of orange and salmon-pink of forty-eight petals are rarely seen to advantage, for it ‘balls’ badly in wet weather. Gold Medal, N.R.S.

p269 [In a listing of “salmon-pink” roses] ‘Sir Winston Churchill’.
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