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'Rosa arvensis blanda Andr.' rose Reviews & Comments
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I'm not sure if the following reference belongs with this record or elsewhere. The description and the Rosenlexicon mention of var. carnea plena makes me think it's probably the same rose.
From Parsons' 'The Rose' (1847), pp. 274-5
Double Blush Ayrshire is a most vigorous climber, with a pretty flower, and will grow in the poorest soil. Like many others of the Ayrshire family, it is very valuable for covering unsightly places, old buildings, and decayed trees. They bloom some two weeks earlier than other roses, and will grow in soil where others would scarcely vegetate. Hence they are valuable for covering naked sandrbanks, or bare spots of earth, and their roots would be of material assistance in keeping up the soil of loose banks. Rivers gives an extract from the Dundee Courier, showing the effect produced by some of these roses.
"Some years ago, a sand pit at Ellangowan was filled up with rubbish found in digging a well. Over this a piece of rock was formed for the growth of plants which prefer such situations, and among them were planted some half dozen plants of the double Ayrshire Rose, raised in this neighborhood about ten years ago. These roses now most completely cover the whole ground, a space of thirty feet by twenty. At present they are in full bloom, showing probably not less than ten thousand roses in this small space."
The Ayrshire Roses are also valuable for weeping trees; when budded on a stock some ten or twelve feet high, the branches quickly reach the ground, and protecting the stem from the sun by their close foliage, present a weeping tree of great beauty, loaded with flowers.
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I am not sure either. But it seems Double Blush Ayrshire might be a syn of R. capreolata Neil var. caprea plena. I have add the name and the reference. If it is not right, hopefully someone in the future will advise us.
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Is it R. capreolata Neil var. caprea plena or R. capreolata Neil var. carnea plena?
Virginia
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The 1936 ref says carnea. I'll fix.
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Yes, it was the 'carnea plena' that made me think 'Double Blush'. (My high-school Latin teacher would be so proud...)
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