(Feb 2010)  Page(s) 21.  
 
He showed me a mossed, double, pink Hybrid Tea many years ago. It was code named 7 -58-10. He had used it to create ‘Dresden Doll’ and said he had the paperwork all ready to patent it many years before, but never got around to it. The rose repeats its bloom all season as any HT is expected, but is mossed and predated any other modern moss by decades. His coding system indicates it first bloomed in 1958

(Feb 2017)  Page(s) 15.  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "We the Fairies Bylthe and Antic", Part II, by Stephen Hoy, pp. 15-22]
In 1857 several families banded together to depart from their Arkansas homes and travel west to California. The Abbott, Burns, and Epperson expedition encountered many hardships and endured the loss of family members, livestock, and personal possessions. Suggesting something of its intrinsic value, a tiny pink China rose was among the belongings that survived the arduous journey. One of the Abbott daughters, Catherine, married young Jesse Burns the day after their arrival in California. The little rose, an Abbott family keepsake, survives to this day nurtured in the historic rose garden located in the Sacramento Historic City Cemetery known as the “Abbott and Burns Family Rose.”

(Nov 2014)  Page(s) 23-24.  
 
The most unusual and certainly rarest rose named in this article caused somewhat of an excited stir at this year’s Mottisfont conference. That rose is ‘Adam Rackles’, a hybrid tea of 1905. Not a single volume of Modern Roses lists it. Of those who included rose lists in their books of that era, neither Parsons, Ellwanger, Pemberton, nor Henslow mention it. Simon and Cochet list it in the appendix of the 1906 edition of their Nomenclature. EuropaRosarium, Sangerhausen includes the rose in its 2007 catalogue....The coloring and texture of ‘Adam Rackles’ is such that several of us who saw it first in a vase and later on a bush in the South Garden asked each other if the flowers were real. A white rose with random, subtle-pink, almost cryptic stripes and ruffled edges, the texture and sheen create the appearance of a highly glazed ceramic or fine porcelain china, or even as though carved out of pearl. From certain angles the rose looks opalescent. Touching the remarkable petals confirms that it is indeed alive and all the more lovely for being so. That such an exquisite rose disappeared from the nursery trade and is threatened with extinction is nothing short of a calamity. ‘Adam Rackles’ was named for a wine merchant of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, who supposedly invented apple wine, a clever and logical marriage of wine and roses.

(Feb 2014)  Page(s) 11.  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "Seven Disappearing Roses", by Darrell g.h. Schramm, pp. 11-17]
‘Angele Pernet’ is a 1924 hybrid tea, a product of the Wizard of Lyon, Joseph Pernet-Ducher. A striking, coral-colored rose with blends of pink, yellow, apricot, orange, and fawn or pale brown shades (or, to simplify it, a brownish orange-red), the flower offers an unusual brilliance. The new leaves are red, quickly turning dull green with a sheen. The prickles on the chestnut-brown canes are large, silver-grey, some straight, some slightly down-curved but not falcate. Surely it is the loveliest of Pernet-Ducher’s Pernetianas, deserving to be more known and grown and saved from extinction. The rose is named for the attractive eldest daughter of the famous breeder, both of whose sons were killed in World War I.

(Feb 2015)  Page(s) 31.  Includes photo(s).
 
“Angels Camp Tea” A mystery rose also known as “Octavus Weld

(Feb 2020)  Page(s) 7.  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "A Victorian Rose Garden Reborn", by Gloria Leinbach, pp. 2-9]
“Jost Plot Tea” is another legacy rose growing in Sacramento City Cemetery that is very much like “Angel’s Camp Tea.” Due to its chameleon-like color characteristics, positive identification will probably require DNA testing. Angels Camp is an old mining town in the Sierra Nevada Foothills, immortalized in Mark Twain’s story about “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”.

(Aug 2015)  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "In Her Footsteps from There to Here", by Darrell g.h. Schramm, pp. 9-13]
The next five or six cemeteries I explored contain few or no old roses, but I recorded assiduously the traits of those I found, photographing them as well. In Yoncalla I met the greatgreat granddaughter of Charles Applegate, brother of Jesse Applegate who established the southern route of the Oregon Harison's Yellow Trail that led to the lower Willamette and Rogue Valley areas. We spoke at length on Oregon History. On the family property, which includes the well-preserved old homestead, grows an old white climbing rose planted there, she said, in 1851. It is a semi-double rose that I saw often in southern Oregon ditches and roadsides. I suspect it is ‘Adelaide d’Orleans’.
photo: "Applegate" Rose

(Aug 2016)  Page(s) 4.  
 
[From "Roses of the Spanish Civil War", by Darrell g.h. Schramm, pp. 2-8]
Blas Munnè, whose interest in roses had awakened in the late 19th century, also offered his wartime compatriots a new rose in 1936. He called it ‘Aurora Borealis’. A hybrid tea the color of honey blended with red, it seems to have been his last rose. He died in 1941. But his two sons continued the family enterprise.

(Aug 2014)  Page(s) 15.  
 
Another rose named to honor Sir Joseph Banks was bred by the renowned Frenchman Jean Laffay about 1837, specifically ‘Banksiaeflora’ (listed in Catherine Gore’s The Rose Fancier’s Manual of 1838 as ‘Banksiana Flora’). A climber showing off clusters of very double, yellowish white flowers with pale yellow centers, it is more fragrant than all the Banksiae except, perhaps, for R. banksiae lutescens. It appears to be a hybrid of R. arvensis Hud. and R. moschata or a noisette, but the name does genetically suggest R. banksiae in its parentage as well. Though no longer commercially available, it still grows in the Feneschi Foundation Rose Garden of Italy and in Roseraie du Val-de-Marne of France. 

(Feb 2020)  Page(s) 6-7.  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "A Victorian Rose Garden Reborn", by Gloria Leinbach, pp. 2-9]
Another fine example of rose rustling is “Barbara’s Pasture Rose” collected in a pasture near Cherokee, CA by the late Barbara Oliva, of the Sacramento City Cemetery Rose Garden. This rose closely resembles ‘La Reine’, a well known, vigorous Hybrid Perpetual that is pink with violet undertones and very fragrant. We grow both of these roses at the Banning, but so far the growth habit remains different.