'Charles Getz' rose Reviews & Comments
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"This was a satiny pink seedling of unknown parentage, but which he named after an amateur rosarian of his vicinity, who paid the munificent price of 50 cents for the first plant sold, Charles Getz. This variety is a magnificent pillar rose, making in fertile soils and in good seasons growths of fifteen feet. It was rechristened the 'Climbing France' and sent out anew. Some of the first plants are still growing on its original site. This has been found a most desirable stock on which to bud other sorts. 'Jeanne d'Arc', the white seedling of 'Gloire de Dijon', makes superb flowers so treated, and magnificent blooms of 'Etoile de Lyon' are obtained when thus managed." From periodical The Weekly Florists' Review, February 15 1900, p. 309.
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Thank you Brent. I have added both your references. I am not sure whether to add the synonym 'Climbing France' (or Climbing La France) but note this was 22 years before Henderson's version.
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"Another of his roses was one which he [Anthony Cook, the breeder] named ‘Charles Getz’, after a friend of his, a celebrated theatrical scene painter of Baltimore. This rose is a climbing ‘La France’ of remarkably vigorous growth and a handsome flower," from periodical Gardening, 1906, p. 269.
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