Newsletter  (Feb 2015)  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "The Rose of Many Names", by Jeri Jennings, pp. 17-20]
I first encountered “The Rose of Many Names” in the small Protestant cemetery in North San Juan (NSJ). There, the family plots of the Gilbert, Hildreth, and McBride families were all distinguished by roses. Vigorous despite decades of neglect, all propagated willingly. Eventually, all three turned out to be the same probable Hybrid Perpetual, its wiry stems liberally bedecked with many small prickles—and frustratingly changeable as to bloom color. All were clearly the same rose. Thus, “Gilbert Plot”, “Hildreth Plot” and “McBride Plot” (see above) joined an already long list of study names for an often-found rose, which continues to defy any and all attempts to match it to a known historic rose. We call it “TROMN,” “The Rose of Many Names.” “Many names” puts it mildly.
Study names we’re aware of include “McBride Plot” (NSJ, Jennings/Gold Coast Rose Rustle) “Gilbert Plot” (NSJ, Jennings/Gold Coast Rose Rustle) “Hildreth Plot” (NSJ, Jennings/Gold Coast Rose Rustle) “Jeri’s Mystery” (Jeri Jennings, Mare Island Rose Rescue) “Bud Jones”/”William Daniels” (Placerville Union Cemetery) “Huckins Plot” (NSJ, Jennings/Gold Coast Rose Rustle) “Lizzie Cannon” i.e., “Elizabeth Cannon” (Cherokee Cemetery) “Cerise Cup” (Pescadero Cemetery) “Lime Kiln” (Santa Cruz) “Mrs. Parker’s HP” (Esparto Cemetery) “Johnson Family” (Stuart Lauters, Pine Grove Cemetery) “McCarty Plot” (Nevada City, Gold Coast Rose Rustle) “Sam Hill” (Jill Perry, El Dorado Cemetery) “Ruby Cayere’s Unknown” (Huntington Botanical Gardens) “Legacy of Eva Zeiner” (Placerville Union Cemetery) “Jackie Schmidt’s Mystery” “Pena Cottage” (collected for San Jose Heritage Rose Garden) “Mary Mead” (Downieville Cemetery) “Requa Homesite”—There seems to be some uncertainty regarding “Requa Homesite,” based upon its color, which appears consistently to be more purple than the others listed. This may be a separate rose. (Or not.)
“McCarty Plot” was collected in June 2006 by members of the Gold Coast Heritage Roses Group, growing in the old St. Canice cemetery in Nevada City, CA. Days later, they found it once again—this time in a hillside cemetery in remote Downieville. It’s only 14 miles north from Nevada City to North San Juan, but 57 more winding miles lands you in Downieville. It’s tempting to think that this rose was a local phenomenon.

Website/Catalog  (19 Jan 2015)  
 
http://www.goldcoast-roses.org/articles/tromn.pdf
 

Article (newsletter)  (Nov 2012)  Page(s) 19.  Includes photo(s).
 
"Bud Jones.” (2011 Los Angeles ARS Fall National Conference, 2010 and 2011, Pacific Rose Society Rose Shows) Most likely a Hybrid Perpetual rose, the rose can appear in spring to be a pinkish red, but soon settles into a deep pink yielding to a lighter version with lilac tinges to the edges of the petals which reach double status. The blooms are rarely more than two and a half inches across appearing mostly in solitary patterns, although there will be occasional small sprays of flat to cupped form. The bush tends to be upright with a width that can vary as the slender canes sway with the weight of the blooms at the end or on shorter stems along the sides of arching canes. The medium green leathery foliage tends to cluster around the blooms leaving the canes in direct summer heat open to sunburn. The rose possesses a strong damask fragrance and blooms most heavily in spring with scattered lighter later bloom. The rose tends to sucker on its own roots. It was gathered at a rose rustle at a Sierra foothills cemetery dating to the mid-19th century and named for one of the participants, a former chair of judges in the Pacific Southwest District. Jeri Jennings collected and propagated this rose, which is nearly identical to another “found” rose, “William Daniel.” The rose is not in commerce and has been distributed only through pass-along plant practices This is the other “found” rose to win a trophy at an ARS National Conference.

Website/Catalog  (2005)  Page(s) 5.  
 
“Gilbert Plot” (Found, Jeri and Clay Jennings, Parentage, Introducer, & Date Unknown) This remontant medium-pink rose was collected from the Gilbert Family Plot in the North San Juan City Cemetery. “Gilbert Plot” blooms well in the spring, and repeats in the fall, producing fragrant, rose-pink blooms singly and in small clusters. Completely clean in the untended North San Juan Cemetery, "Gilbert Plot" is happiest in inland gardens.