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Old Garden Roses
(1936)  Page(s) 74.  
 
Varieties in cultivation: Belle Aurore (Ex Albo Rosea). Large, very double, clear flesh with purplish shade, pedicel glanded and hip. Leaves glaucous, a little red below when young, shoots straight, a little violet tinged. This description I take from Prevost, the plant I grow having yet to flower, but otherwise I think it corresponds.
(1936)  Page(s) 110.  
 
Belle des Jardins Semi-double, cupped; opening pink, turning purplish crimson, striped faint white. Pistil 1/4 in., separate; pedicel and calyx glandular. Calyx equals bud, not winged. Leaves dark green, tips red. Wood green; red, down-curved thorns and bristles. Introduced by Guillot, 1875.
 
(1936)  Page(s) 87.  
 
Berwick. 3 ft. semi-double. Rose shading to white at edge of petal.
(1936)  Page(s) 88.  
 
Large Two-Coloured. Semi-double, like 'Two-Coloured Scotch', but larger. Figured by Andrews as 'bicolor'.
(1936)  Page(s) 86.  
 
Mottled Bicolor Nana. Creamy white, irregularly splashed rose, pink and yellow at base of petals, 2 ft.
(1936)  Page(s) 74.  
 
Varieties in cultivation: Blanc Parfait (Pompom). Flowers 1½ in., very double, in clusters of ten to twelve, few anthers, free pistils. Pedicel slightly glanded, also hip. Calyx double, equals bud, lobes leafy, winged, edged glands. Leaves blue-green, paler below, held out, slightly upfolded. Wood green, few red thorns. An interesting Pompom form of Alba, though not dwarf in growth.
(1936)  Page(s) 126.  
 
Blanche Moreau. Moreau-Robert, 1880. Perpetual. White, medium, opening regularly like a small Camellia, no anthers. Pedicel thorny rather than mossy. Calyx mossy, lobes not winged. Leaf long, held out flat. Thorns chocolate, thin, and, short bristles. Wood green, extra tall, perhaps the best white.
(1936)  Page(s) 126.  
 
Blanche Simon. Moreau-Robert, 1862. Summer flowering. Large, pure white, flat and full. Leaves pale pea green. Wood green, many bristles, few straight thorns. Very distinct from its pale green foliage.
(1936)  Page(s) 104.  
 
The Dog Rose....The part it has played in the production of garden varieties is very small, but there are several striking pictures in Andrews' Roses....and the so-called Blush Belgic, with a flower 3 1/2 in. across, but this is probably an Alba hybrid.
(1936)  Page(s) 146-7.  Includes photo(s).
 
Old Roses not classified....Blush Gallica Small, double, pale roses, darker centre. Leaves pale green, soft, not downy, petiole downy and glandular, stipules long and narrow, edged small glands. Wood green, a few long curved thorns and small straight ones.
This has so long been known under the above name that I retain it, though it has much more Damask character. It was a great favourite of Miss Jekyll's and, as she said, it will thrive on the driest of soils under trees, and even has been seen growing out of a wall.

Plate 30 (opposite p132)
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