HelpMeFind Roses, Clematis and Peonies
Roses, Clematis and Peonies
and everything gardening related.
BookPlants ReferencedPhotosReviews & CommentsRatings 
The Makers of Heavenly Roses
(1985)  Page(s) 28.  
 
Beauty of Stapleford
[one of Henry Bennett's Pedigree Roses]... deep lilac pink... no scent but plenty of mildew...
(1985)  Page(s) 134.  
 
Ralph Moore made an important discovery and that was when a Miniature is crossed with a climber, some of the resulting seedlings will also be miniatures and his first successful Miniatures were products of such crosses. Bit o' Sunshine is one.
(1985)  Page(s) 32.  
 
[Henry Bennett's] las rose [Captain Hayward] had not flowered at the time of his death. His youngest son, Edmund, introduced it in 1893... a crimson Hybrid Perpetual, which was considered a magnificent red and was grown for many years...
(1985)  Page(s) 134.  
 
Carolyn Dean a pink, five-petalled rambler [Harkness gives the parentage as 'Etoile Luisante' x 'Sierra Snowstorm']...
(1985)  Page(s) 101.  
 
On studying the descendants of Caroline, [Wilhelm Kordes II] thought he detected the entry he wanted in a pink rose called 'Superb', introduced by Evans of Brighton in 1924. He crossed 'Superb' with 'Sensation', a red rose introduced in 1922 by Joseph H. Hill Co. of Richmond, Indiana. Most of the seedlings were pink, but one was ruby red, giving him the break he had sought. He named it 'Cathrine Kordes' and introduced it in 1929...
(1985)  Page(s) 135.  
 
Ralph applied for a US plant patent, and received it, for his wine red Miniature 'Centennial Miss', introduced in 1952.
(1985)  Page(s) 152.  
 
[James Cocker & Sons] introduced a salmon pink sport of 'Dorothy Perkins' in 1909, under the name 'Christian Curle'.
(1985)  Page(s) 103.  
 
[Wilhelm Kordes] ...mixed his Sweet Briar hybrids with 'Peace' to obtain the yellow line, culminating after some generations in 'Cläre Grammerstorf' in 1957. Cläre is a rough looking character, coarse in leaf and growth, existing in gardens not so much in her own person, as in her yellow descendants, of which some are Reimer Kordes' 'Honeymoon', 1959; Niels Poulsen's 'Chinatown', 1963; and Sam McGredy's 'Arthur Bell', 1965.
(1985)  Page(s) 166.  
 
Among my varieties some of the best known are 'Alexander', 'Compassion', 'Mountbatten', 'Yesterday', 'Elizabeth Harkness', 'Southampton' and 'Amber Queen'. 
(1985)  Page(s) 110.  
 
Condesa de Sástago (Pedro Dot, 1930) a strong plant, bearing flowers coloured red one side of the petal and yellow the other... this rose won the first Rome Gold Medal in 1933...
© 2024 HelpMeFind.com