The Rose Amateur's Guide, 3rd ed., 1843
(1843) Page(s) 200. French Roses...Antonine d'Ormois.
(1843) Page(s) 176. Princesse de Nassau [In the section on The Musk Rose] is a very distinct and good variety, very fragrant, and blooming in large clusters; the flower-buds, before they open are nearly yellow, changing to cream colour as they expand.
(1843) Page(s) 200. Hybrid China Roses....Blairii, No. 2
(1843) Page(s) 43. Blairii, a rose not so much known as it deserves to be, is a very distinct and unique variety, so impatient of the knife, that if pruned at all severely, it will scarcely put forth a flower: it is perhaps better as a pillar rose, than grown in any other mode, as it shoots ten or twelve feet in one season, and its pendulous clusters of flowers which are produced from those long shoots unshortened, have a beautiful effect on a pil
(1843) Page(s) 40. Rosa Blairii is also English, and raised from the yellow China, impregnated with some variety of hardy rose.
(1843) Page(s) 44. Catel is one of our finest dark roses, very double, and finely shaped, quite worth the notice of the amateur.
(1843) Page(s) 57. Souvenir d'une Mère, a very large and most beautiful rose, will bear seed if fertilised; the best union for this rose would perhaps be Celine, which is one of the most abundant seed-bearing roses we possess : very large and brilliant rose-coloured varieties would probably be originated from these roses in combination.
(1843) Page(s) 51. The Summer Rose Garden. The Hybrid China Rose. To Hybrid China Roses but very few really good roses have been added; to one variety, however, too much attention cannot be directed, and this is Chenédolé, so called from a member of the chamber of Deputies for Calvados, a district in Normandy, where this fine rose was raised. It has often been asserted that no rose could compete in Brennus for size and beauty; but I feel no hesitation in saying, that in superior brilliancy of colour, and size of flower, this plant is superior; the foliage and habit of the plant are also much more elegant and striking; in colour its flowers are of a peculiar glowing vivid crimson, discernible at a great distance; it is indeed an admirable rose, and cannot be too much cultivated.
(1843) Page(s) 123. The Autumnal Rose Garden. Perpetual Roses. To Perpetual Roses some valuable additions have been made, chiefly of Hybrid Bourbons, which partaking of the fragrance and hardiness of the Damask Rose, are very desirable, as well as from their blooming so abundantly in the autumn. These roses are termed "Hybrid Perpetuals" in some catalogues. Clémentine Duval is a very pretty pale rose-coloured variety of this class, of compact growth, and giving abundance of flowers.
(1843) Page(s) 132. Hybrid Perpetuals...Clementine Seringe, with flowers large as those of Brown's Superb Blush, and with the same peculiar fragrance as the cabbage rose, is a most superb variety; its flowers are placed on stiff erect foot-stalks; these are of a fine rosy blush: as a forcing rose, this is invaluable.
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