(Feb 2020)  Page(s) 14.  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "A Raise Eyebrow for Striped Roses", by Darrell g.h. Schramm, pp. 13-18]
Of the lovely Gallica ‘Camaieux’ much has been written in praise: “One of the finest striped roses in all of rosedom,” “One of the most exquisite of the striped Gallicas,” “One of the glories” of striped roses. The rose appears as mauve or magenta or violet-red with white streaks; or is it pale blush, nearly white, with dark rose-pink or mauve streaks? At any rate, by the fourth day of bloom, its stripes become a pleasant lilac-gray. A flat bloom, double and sweetly fragrant, with a button eye, it grows, like most Gallicas, three to four feet high by about three feet wide. It does require very good soil. ‘Camaieux’ was introduced by Gendron in 1826. Its name, claims one source, derives from an interior decorating fabric; claims another source, it refers to a stone of different colors. I raise a quizzical eyebrow. Why not simply attribute to the name its meaning in French?: Different shades of one color, as in a monochrome painting.

(Nov 2014)  Page(s) 23.  
 
Another hybrid perpetual, one bred by Vigneron in 1883, is ‘Capitaine Louis Frere’, also known as ‘Monsieur le Capitaine Louis Frere’. Usually crimson, it can show itself as vivid light red, but is invariably quite large and full, and not particularly “thorny.”.....The plant is named for Captain Louis Frere de Lachaise, a sub-lieutenant in the Seven Years War, the result of which France lost Canada to England. Obviously, at some point he was promoted.

(Nov 2016)  Page(s) 24.  
 
[From "Thornless in Oregon", by Darrell g.h. Schramm, pp. 24-27]
In Mountain View Cemetery of Oregon City, Oregon....y in her yard. Across the road from the actual garden and in a ditch grows a luxuriant old deep purple rose. One of my companions told me that Mrs. Holmes called this rose ‘Cardinal’, perhaps believing it to be the old Gallica (Hybrid China, really) ‘Cardinal de Richelieu’. I thought not. No, this rose reminded me almost at once of both the Gallica ‘Orpheline de Juillet’ and the Portland ‘Indigo’, yet of neither one exclusively. Like ‘Orpheline’, this sprawling roadside rose had China-like leaves but in most other respects, such as in its straight prickles, appeared to be a Gallica. Or a Damask Perpetual. And there ‘Indigo’ showed its colors and its somewhat thick pompon shape, most often with a button eye. I wondered if it was one of two or three lost dark crimson or purple Gallicas like ‘Pompon’ of 1835. Or perhaps that found mystery rose called “Little Red Runaround.” Certainly it was not John Cook’s red Hybrid Tea ‘Cardinal’ introduced in 1904.

(May 2015)  Page(s) 25.  
 
[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.

(May 2013)  Page(s) 3.  
 
The man who produced the most roses of this thirty-year period was Anthony Cook, also of Baltimore. Of fifteen roses, four were teas (‘Cornelia Cook’, ‘Desantres’, ‘Paradine’, and ‘Caroline Cook’)...

(Aug 2001)  Page(s) 4. Vol 26, No. 3.  
 
Rev. Douglas T. Seidel, Pennsylvania. Those fabulous Foundlings: the No-Name Noisettes.
"Cato's Cluster" (Vintage Gardens) is synonymous with what many of us were calling "Florida Pink Noisette". The name memorializes Carl Cato, one of the founders of the Heritage Rose Group and of this publication. I first saw this variety at a flower show in Miami in April of 1980, where it was being shown as 'Champney's Pink Cluster'. Show officials put me in touch with the exhibitor, Mrs. Thomas Johnston of Coral Gables. This gracious lady invited me to visit her roses the next day. Amid the palms, plumerias, and citrus of her garden, there were orchids beginning to naturalize, drifts of blue bulbous iris, Easter lilies beyond counting, and a collection of Chinas, Teas, and Noisettes that had taken a lifetime to assemble. This wonderful pink foundling was guarding the entrance to Mrs. Johnston's enchanted world. When Leonie Bell saw my rooted cuttings in bloom later that year, she had to have one and, " ... one for Carl, too, please." I assume Carl not only liked the rose but that he shared it with his friends, as well. "Cato's Cluster" is as hardy as a Hybrid Tea and an excellent rebloomer. The flowers are fully double, a row or two of pale petals encircling.a non-fading rich pink center.

(May 2015)  Page(s) 24.  
 
[From "Suckering Roses Revisited", by Darrell g.h. Schramm, pp. 23-27]
‘Celsiana’ (1732)..... tends to keep her suckers loosely tied to her apron strings

(Feb 2020)  Page(s) 13.  
 
[From "A Raise Eyebrow for Striped Roses", by Darrell g.h. Schramm, pp. 13-18]
‘Centifolia Variegata’ is a creamy white rose laced with pale, subtle pink stripes and lines. A very double, delicate flower, it proves highly fragrant, very vigorous, and very prickly. It grows three to five feet high by four feet wide and is given to suckering. Apparently, sometimes it reverts to the common R x centifolia. Its quizzical nature lies in its name, since it is also called ‘Cottage Maid’, ‘Village Maid’, and six other names. Why? An earlier ‘Centifolia Variegata’ was painted by Redouté in Les Roses, which may be the same Rosa provincialis variegata published in the 1775 book The English Flora by Richard Weston. But this one is from the hand of Jean-Pierre Vibert in 1839.

(May 2013)  Page(s) 3.  
 
The man who produced the most roses of this thirty-year period was Anthony Cook, also of Baltimore. Of fifteen roses...... six, according to Henry Ellwanger, were hybrid damascena, that is Portlands (‘Souvenir de President Lincoln’, Rosalina’, ‘Il Defense’, ‘Contina’, ‘Charles Cook’, and ‘La Brilliante’)

(May 2015)  Page(s) 25.  
 
[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.