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'Odéric Vital' rose Description
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'Ordéric Vital' rose photo
Photo courtesy of amadis
Availability:
Commercially available
Synonyms:
HMF Ratings:
4 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Light pink Hybrid Perpetual.
Registration name: Odéric Vital
Origin:
Discovered by Pierre Oger (France, 1858).
Introduced in Australia by George Brunning - St. Kilda Nurseries in 1863 as 'Odéric Vital'.
Class:
Hybrid Perpetual.  
Bloom:
Light pink, silver(y) shading.  Moderate fragrance.  Large, full (26-40 petals), button-eye, flat bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  
Patents:
Patent status unknown (to HelpMeFind).
Notes:
Margottin remarked in 1866 that Ordéric Vital often reverts to Baronne Prévost. See References.

Ordéric Vital (1075-1142) was a Norman monk who spent almost his entire life in a monastery at Saint-Évroult d'Ouche, Normandy. He was the author of a comprehensive history that describes feudal and monastic life in Normandy and England around the time of the Norman Conquest. Ordéric (Orderic is a Saxon name) was born in England to a Norman father who followed a Norman noble to England during the Norman conquest in 1066. Although raised speaking Old English, Orderic was sent by his father first to an English church school to learn Latin and then back to Normandy to the monastery at the age of 10. He was given the name Vitalis. His work, Historiae Eccleasiastcae, written in ecclesiastical Latin, was comprised 13 books written from 1123 to 1141. It includes detailed accounts of the lives and political machinations of the Norman nobility and royalty and of the history of the monastery. An authoritative version was published in France in 1838 - 1855, edited by August Le Prévost. Orderic Vital's name is sometimes latinized to Ordericus Vitalis. An account of his life, translated from "Remarks on the Life, Work, and times or Ordericus Vitalis," by M. Leopold Delisle, is included in the Le Prévost edition in notes to Vol. IV, available through books.google.com.
 
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