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The Book of the Rose (Michael Gibson)
(1980) Page(s) 107. 'Brasilia'. 1967. 'Perfecta' x 'Piccadilly'. Flowers light scarlet with pale gold reverse. Full. Vigorous and upright, with semi-glossy mid-green leaves.
(1980) Page(s) 202. ....to the great rambling, arching Cerise Bouquet - actually more crimson-red than cerise and a Hybrid of R. multibracteata and the Hybrid Tea 'Crimson Glory' - which would add distinction to any general shrub planting....'Cerise Bouquet' is not recurrent.
(1980) Includes photo(s). p127. 'Coventry Cathedral' ('Cathedral'). 1971. ('Little Darling' x 'Goldilocks') x 'Irish Mist'. Fl - HT. Light orange-vermilion with a paler reverse, moderately full, in large and small trusses. Showy but some blooms marred by spotting. Upright and branching with semi-glossy leaves.
p134. Plate. 'Coventry Cathedral' (top right) has succeeded in moving from its homeland across the Atlantic in the opposite direction, under the alternative name of 'Cathedral' and it seems to be making a good show in other countries as well.
(1980) Includes photo(s). p146 ‘Danse du Feu’ (‘Spectacular’). 1953. ‘Paul’s Scarlet Climber’ x unnamed Multiflora. Double flowers, opening cupped to flat, fragrant and bright scarlet, dulling later. Glossy leaves and good repeat. 3m (10ft).
p179 Illustration
p180 ‘Danse du Feu’ (‘Spectacular’) came into the world to great acclaim and may be taken as an example of what I mean. It is a tremdously profuse bloomer, repeats later on, and the flowers when they first come out are a magnificent fiery-red. But for how long? A few days at most and they lose their glow and become faded and muddy-looking, with a reluctance to shed their dead petals after rain.
(1980) p81 The results of Pemberton's work were interesting and varied, and between the blush-pink 'Daphne' of 1912 and the salmon-pink 'Felicia' of 1928 he introduced a range of sweet-smelling, very free-flowering and recurrent garden shrubs which in many ways has not been surpassed.
p140. 'Daphne' 1912. Semi-double blush-pink blooms in clusters. 1.2 x 1.2m (4 x 4 ft)
(1980) Page(s) 110. 'Fleet Street'. 1973. 'Kronenbourg' x 'Prima Ballerina'. Flowers rich pink, well-formed, large and fragrant. Vigorous but short-growing. Dark glossy leaves. Not too free with blooms.
(1980) p140 ‘Francesca’, 1922. ‘Danae’ x ‘Sunburst’. Fine scent and rather loosely-formed flowers in yellow and apricot tints, fading cream. Robust, long-stemmed growth. 1.8 x 1.8m (6 x 6ft).
p186 The older, Pemberton-type Hybrid Musks can also be used with great advantage for perimeter hedges, although they are much less regular in growth than the Rugosas and certainly cannot be clipped over in the same way. Varieties like…. and ‘Francesca’ (apricot-yellow) …will all form reasonably bushy plants up to 1.5 – 1.8m (5-6ft tall with a profusion and continuity of bloom hardly matched by any other rose. They do, however, have a tendency to send out very long shoots in quite unexpected directions in late summer, bearing enormous heads of flowers which only a barbarian would dream of cutting off to keep his hedge tidy-looking.
(1980) Page(s) 128. 'Geisha Girl' 1965. 'Gold Cup' x 'McGredy's Yellow'. Tall, but bushy and uniform, with mid-green leaves. large flowers open flat, golden-yellow with occasional red streaks on reverse in the early stages. The yellow fades to cream.
(1980) Page(s) 186. The more modern Hybrid Musks like 'Wilhelm', 'Will Scarlet' and Hamburg, with their habit of growth more closely resembling tall Floribundas, have their trusses of bloom mainly at the top and are grand for growing behind and peering over the kind of wall, about 60cm (2 ft) high, which is often to be found dividing a garden from the highway.
(1980) Page(s) 129. 'Hassan' 1961. 'Tivoli' x 'Independence'. Large double glowing scarlet flowers in big trusses. Light green glossy leaves. Vigorous.
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