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Alpenfee is a rose of great delicacy and beauty. The cupped and crowded flowers open from fat round buds and smother the plant with bloom.

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It has been disappointing that during the past few decades of old rose gathering from waysides in the U.S. only one Setigera hybrid has been uncovered. Yet it is a rose of such exceptional beauty, that we ought to be very pleased. The rose which I stumbled across at an old house on the North Coast of California, has been found as well at a site in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. My foundling is named for the town in which I found it, and for the colour and form of the blooms; Arcata Pink Globe. It’s doppelgänger from the Gold Country is known as the Moser House Shed Rose. The flowers come in great abundance, late in the season, are medium-sized, and coloured blush pink with a lilac tint. It is sweetly scented.

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Aurelia Liffa, a hybrid between R. setigera and the Hybrid Perpetual Marie Baumann, brings the beauty of the HPs into this splendid realm of hardy climbers. The flowers are full, quartered and fragrant, and of a delicate blend of lavender, pink and rose crimson. A notable importation of Geschwind’s Orden under this name has caused considerable confusion in the US for some years. More recently the real Aurelia Liffa has found its way here thanks to the efforts of Cliff Orent of California who has attempted to bring all of the known surviving hybrids of Geschwind to America

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Baltimore Belle is perhaps the most widely grown of these few survivors. It is one of the most prolific and beautiful old roses I grow. The small flowers of cupped form and palest blush colouring perfume the air with their fragrance. They appear in large clusters on a long-caned plant that is ideal for covering an arbor or fence. The old Noisette parentage is very evident in this variety, from the typical Musk Rose clustering of the small blooms, to the pale, apple-green tint to the foliage. It is the rose’s propensity to re-bloom in the autumn in climates with long growing seasons that marks it as a Noisette seedling. I have noted an odd quality about the plant itself, which is a tendency to ‘retire’ its climbing canes early in their life. Each winter about a third of the canes produced in the previous year turn black and die.

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Erinnerung an Brod has seduced many notable rosarians, including Charles Quest-Ritson. In his book ‘Climbing Roses of the World’ he waxes poetical in his description of the deep maroon-violet flowers. What I find fascinating is that this rose appears under the names of many other roses, such as Souvenir d’Alphonse Lavallée, recently reintroduced from Europe to America. And we have moreover received some distinctive imposters from Europe under the name Erinnering an Brod, including an apricot flowered rose of Setigera appearance.

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Gem of the Prairies was introduced by a contemporary of Feast and Pierce, Adolphe Burgess in 1859 or 1860. The plant I received from Ashdown Roses some years ago appears to be identical with what I have received as Geschwind’s Orden. It is unclear to me which is the correct name, but this is most definitely a Setigera hybrid, with round flowers of rich rose purple and an outer halo of white that creates a very dazzling effect. There is further evidence of Boursault rose ancestry in this variety as well; the young canes are nearly thornless and reddish in coloring.

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Himmelsauge, so far as I have been able to observe, is identical to Russelliana. The story might well end there, except that there are qualities in Russelliana that have long puzzled me. The foliage in particular is very much in the style of R. setigera, and not typical of R. multiflora hybrids. Even the most recent plants we have received from Cliff Orent’s importations from Europe I believe to be suspect.

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Long John Silver, according to Dan Russo, an expert on rambling roses in Rhode Island, appears to be incorrectly sold in the USA and elsewhere, and is more likely to be Iceland Queen.

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Arcata Pink Globe. It’s doppelgänger from the Gold Country is known as the Moser House Shed Rose. The flowers come in great abundance, late in the season, are medium-sized, and coloured blush pink with a lilac tint. It is sweetly scented.

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Mrs. F. F. Prentiss which received considerable publicity in the rose press of the 1920s and 1930s, was in fact not ever readily available to the public, although it became an important parent for Horvath. Its semi-double, lilac pink flowers are unforgettable, yet demure and refined.