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'Mrs. Marshall Field' rose Reviews & Comments
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Does anyone have access to the Sunday, November 3, 1907, issue of a newspaper called (in full or in part, I don't know) the Tribune (likely the Chicago Tribune)? According to The Gardeners' Magazine of November 30, 1907, the Tribune on that date had a full page color picture of the rose 'Mrs. Marshall Field'.
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19 MAR by
 Lee H.
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Here is the article. I can’t tell if it was in color or not. It was digitized in b/w.
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Many thanks! Supposedly it's in color.
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I’ve moved the b/w out of Comments and into the main page for Mrs. Marshall Field.
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"Bright rosy pink flowers, with long leafy stems, and a fragrance equal to that of American Beauty are its principal characteristics," from American Florist, vol. 27, 1906, p. 737.
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"The robust bush gives an abundance of flowers borne on a rigid stem, giving it preference for making bouquets. The color of the flower is deep pink within, paling lightly at the moment of fully opening" JR32/182 (Journal des Roses, 1908).
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Reference and colour added. Thank you.
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"Peter Reinberg will next season have seven houses planted to Mrs. Marshall Field roses. The additional room given this section has been taken from the new American Beauty range" [in the Reiner greenhouses], American Florist, vol. 28, 1907, p. 504.
Reinberg--a mass producer of cut roses with acres of greenhouses, one of the largest such operations in the world at the time, always adding more and more greenhouses--specialized (though not exclusively) in 'American Beauty'. As Reinberg was neither a rose breeder nor a nurseryman per se, I suspect strongly that 'Mrs. Marshall Field' was not a bred rose but rather a sport of 'American Beauty' (which is why Reinberg would feel moved to put the two under the same culture).
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