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'Mignonette' rose References
Booklet (2009) Page(s) 29. Diploid....Mignonette, heterozygous loci 39% [Provenance: Vintage Gardens]
Book (2 Nov 2003) Page(s) 20. Barbara May and Jane Zammit. Rookwood Cemetery Roses. The following roses have been identified at Rookwood, primarily in the old and Heritage listed areas Mignonette
Book (2003) Page(s) 152. 1881. Mignonette (Multiflora) (1875)
Book (2001) Page(s) 177-178. Early Polyanthas: Mignonette (Guillot fils, 1881), Seedling of a seedling of R. multiflora 'Polyantha'; the immediate parent is probably the 'Polyantha Alba Plena Sarmentosa' one sees to have been much used in breeding in Lyon, though unreleased. [Author cites information from different sources and, in particular, an interesting entry from the breeder..] ...From these seedlings, I further got many varieties equally dwarf and very remontant...with soft pink flowers which were full and well-formed though small [this, presumably, is 'Mignonette']; I am going to propagate a quantity sufficient to deliver them into commerce in November 1880...
Book (Apr 1993) Page(s) 378. Mignonette Polyantha, rose, sometimes blush white bordered with wine-red spots, 1880, Dbl. Fld. Multiflora x probably China or Tea; Guillot Fils. Description.
Book (Feb 1993) Page(s) 130. Includes photo(s). Mignonette Description... small, double, blush-pink to white blooms borne in clusters...
Website/Catalog (1985) Page(s) 31. Mignonette* (Polyantha) Very small flowers of soft rosy pink to white in clusters. Dwarf. Free flowering. 1880. (Temporarily out of stock).
Book (1978) Page(s) 155. 'Mignonette' in 1879 the second Polyantha came from the widow Rambaud of Lyon; it was white, 'Anna-Maria de Montravel'; in 1880 Guillot introduced 'Mignonette', the first to show some pink with the white in its double flowers. It is presumably of similar parentage as 'Paquerette'.
Book (1968) Page(s) 14. Nancy Steen. Miniature Roses From the Past. 'Mignonette' is a very dwarf Polyantha Rose, more floriferous even than 'Anna Marie de MontraveI'. It produces' enormous corymbs of bloom continuously all summer.
Article (misc) (1954) Page(s) 43. Mignonette 14 chromosomes.
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