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'Spenser' rose Reviews & Comments
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Surely this rose is named after the poet Edmund Spenser (ca. 1552-January 13, 1599), William Paul not only having a penchant for naming roses after poets ('Milton', 'Tennyson') and other writers ('Charles Lamb'), but he also discusses poet Spenser in his book The Rose Garden.
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American Gardener
magazine January, 1893, p.15
..."a very fine hybrid remontant, satin-pink, shaded with white, very large, full, and of compact form with robust growth;..."
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Reference added. I have presumed they spelt it 'Spencer'?
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The Spencer I have looks very different from the foto in the book The Quest for the Rose (page 97); I also have Enfant de France and it look's to me that both roses are the same! Maybe some day I'll find out which is the correct Spencer
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i have never heard that a sport of a non-scented rose turns out to be highly-fragrant. quite interesting!
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16 OCT 09 by
 jedmar
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I wonder where the "strong fragrance" designation came from. It is not in the references.
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yes, and i wonder, if anyone has ever doubted the lineage, or mabe the plant in commerce today is a different one, because at the photos bloom-form and habit as well look so very different from merveille de lyon. the flowers pictured are rather like that of damasks and merveille de lyon is not a bit arching but very upright - not like the rose on the photo of collection loubert. merveille de lyon-blooms do not have this powderpuffshaped appearence, not even when aged; they rather look like waterlilies.
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The 'Spencer' I had here for several years, from Sequoia Nsy., was identical the cultivar received 'Enfant de France' from Regan Nsy.
They were both Spring flowering only in my climate and heavily fragrant.
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