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Rose Letter
(Nov 2018)  Page(s) 11.  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "The Widows Three, the Roses Twelve", by Darrell g.h. Schramm, pp. 10-14]
A 1900 E. Horton & Co. catalogue provides this description: A wonderful rose, deriving its name of “Inconstant Beauty” from producing flowers of different shades on the same plant. The colours vary from crimson to light pink through shades of tawny red, light yellow with orange and citron-red centre, pale flesh with pink centre, orange chrome and deep rose— all these colours being frequently seen on one bush at the same time.
(May 2013)  Page(s) 2-3.  
 
His first rose was ‘Beauty of Greenmount’ in 1854, a hybrid setigera. Today, a found rose under the study name of “Green Mount Red,” growing in that cemetery, as well as another on the grave of George F. Harison of ‘Harison’s Yellow,’ is speculated to be the same rose.
(Feb 2013)  Page(s) 6.  
 
Daniel Boll of New York, a Swiss horticulturist, established his Midtown Nursery in 1837, the same year in which he introduced his hybrid perpetual ‘Belle Americaine’. The rose may have been named in reference to Elizabeth Monroe, wife of our fifth president; it was the name given her by the French when she intervened to prevent the Marquise de Layfayette [sic] from being guillotined. It is not clear whether or not ‘Belle Americaine’ is the same rose as ‘Pretty American’, to which the French name translates; the latter is also ascribed to Boll but is described as a deep pink miniature.
(May 2015)  Page(s) 25, 26(photo).  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "Suckering Roses Revisited", by Darrell g.h. Schramm, pp. 23-27]
The Gallica hybrids, such as ‘Belle de Crecy (pre-1829), ‘Cardinal de Richelieu’ (1840), and ‘Charles de Mills’ (pre-1790) sucker somewhat thickly, sometimes reproducing themselves as though marching in a phalanx or military band on parade. As such, they create huge, long bushes.
(Feb 2010)  Page(s) 9.  Includes photo(s).
 
“Benny Lopez” Found Rose, Santa Barbara, CA, Propagated by Ingrid Wapelhorst Best Found Rose In Show National Rose Show, November, 2009 Exhibited by Ingrid Wapelhorst
(Feb 2020)  Page(s) 6.  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "A Victorian Rose Garden Reborn", by Gloria Leinbach, pp. 2-9]
The Banning rose garden proudly displays their found “homestead” roses collected and propagated by rose rustlers. Many of these specimens are closely related to Hybrid and Damask Perpetuals. “Benny Lopez”, collected 50 years ago, is also known as the “Mystery Santa Barbara Rose”. The deep purple-pink color displayed in winter lightens up to cerise in hot weather; the strong Damask-spice fragrance makes visitors pause and linger in the garden.
(Nov 2012)  Page(s) 9.  Includes photo(s).
 
Roses found in Chambersville Rose Garden, Texas...Bermuda's Kathleen
(May 2018)  Page(s) 12.  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "Roses of Walter van Fleet", by Connie Hilker, pp. 8-12]
Nick Weber offered cuttings of a rose in his garden that he believed to be ‘Bess Lovett’, collected twenty-or-more years before from the USDA blackspot trial grounds in Beltsville, Maryland. “Pink Van Fleet”, which is how the rose was listed in the facility’s records, appears to be a good match for ‘Bess Lovett’, based on old descriptions.
(Feb 2018)  Page(s) 2-3.  
 
[From "Blushing Lucy, Emily Gray, and The Doctor", by Darrell g.h. Schramm, pp. 2-5]
‘Blushing Lucy’ proves itself an astonishingly vigorous plant, known to climb into trees. When first grown at its trial grounds in Haywards Heath, England, in 1937, it was thought to be a pillar rose or one to climb over an archway. But today we know that, unless it were a series of elongated archways along a rose allée, the rambler would smother the typical archway over a porch or gateway to a garden.... A late flowering plant, its old wood should be cut out aggressively as soon as all blooms are spent. And if the soil is not permitted to dry out around its roots, it will resist mildew and blackspot. Lucy herself was the wife of the breeder, Dr. Alfred Henry Williams (more on him later). He named it for his Victorian spouse who was known invariably to blush during conversations. She died in 1940, a year after her husband. Though the rose seems to have been bred much earlier, Williams submitted the plant for the 1937-38 trials, and it was introduced in England’s Rose Annual 1938. The old and famous Cant Nursery was to have marketed the rose in 1939, but the onslaught of WWII forestalled that. Dr. Williams died in 1939; subsequently, the rose appeared to be lost. But in 1946 or so, one of his sons, Harvey Williams, visited Frank Cant at the Cant Nursery. To the thrill of both men, they located one solitary plant of ‘Blushing Lucy’ at the rear of a building. Cant gave him the rose. Today that rose can be purchased from a very few select nurseries in England, New Zealand, Japan, and the United States.
(May 2020)  Page(s) 16(photo), 17.  Includes photo(s).
 
In 1822 Pierre Cochet, the son of Christophe, Bougainville’s gardener, bred a lovely Noisette rose named for the Admiral which Vibert introduced. It is a deep rose pink that fades to a blush pink, with the reverse side invariably paler. Its 35 to 40 petals roll back to a point. The flowers are quite small, perhaps an inch across, but they grow in clusters of thirty to fifty. The stipules are red, the prickles large. While it is somewhat compact, the plant can spread to a degree, growing to between six and seven feet tall. It blooms almost constantly. Cut it back—but why?— and it will return, offering purple-pink buds that open again into rich clusters of rose.
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