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Twentieth-Century Roses
(1988)  Page(s) 14.  Includes photo(s).
(1988)  Page(s) 134.  
 
Crimson to cherry-red flowers are produced in abundance, the buds large and plump, almost black until they start to open. Strong necked, with dark green foliage and thorny stems. A good all-rounder.
(1988)  Page(s) 66, 281.  Includes photo(s).
 
Page 66: A sumptuous rose which cannot decide whether or not to be a climber but nevertheless makes an excellent shrub.
Page 281: [PHOTO] (Modern Climber) Boerner USA 1949. ('Mercedes Gallart' x 'New Dawn') Flowers: freely produced, very large and shapely, rose-pink with a deeper reverse and shadings of magenta and highlights of salmon, fragrant. Foliage: lush dark green with a bronze overlay and glossy. Upright. 10' x 6'
(1988)  Page(s) 75.  
 
....the nearest I dare go is to say that the Bermudan "Miss Atwood", although taller, closely resembles my 'Arethusa'.
(1988)  Page(s) 227.  
 
(Seedling x 'Iceberg' seedling) Flowers: fully double, light pink. Foliage: smallish, dark green, slight gloss. Bushy. 4' x 4'
(1988)  Page(s) 231.  
 
Flowers: semi-double, salmon-pink tinged apricot, deepening towards the centre, produced in clusters. Foliage: mid-green and glossy. Growth bushy and arching. 4' x 4'
 
(1988)  Page(s) 245.  
 
Austin, UK 1969. Flowers: deep rose-pink with a paler reverse. Semi-double and cupped. Foliage: small and mid-green. Growth: compact and bushy. 3' x 2'.
(1988)  Page(s) 16, 18.  Includes photo(s).
 
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Page 18: Before the long-flowering species and hybrids arrived from China, European nurserymen and rosarians had little material to work with in their quest for remontancy in the genus. The only rose then known to them that repeated its flowering in the autumn was Rosa damascena bifera or 'Quatre Saisons'.
(1988)  Page(s) 210.  Includes photo(s).
 
Belle Amour [Unclassified Shrub Rose]. A foundling at a convent in Elboeuf, France, 1940s. Probably Alba x Damask. shapely, soft pink, fully double flowers with densely packed petals in the damask style. Foliage coarse and greyish but plentiful. Stems thorny, growth shrubby. Summer flowering only. Tolerant of poorer soil. Suitable for hedging. Very fragrant. Availability limited. 5 x 4'. 1.5 x 1.2m.
(1988)  Page(s) 67, 248.  Includes photo(s).
 
Page 67: [Photo]
Page 248: [Photo] Procumbent shrub. Meilland France 1982. (R. sempervirens x 'Mlle Marthe Carron') x 'Picasso'. Flowers: very large clusters of bright pink, fully double flowers paling to soft pink towards the edges of the petals. Foliage: plentiful, small, dark green and semi-glossy on a broad, bushy plant. 3' x 6'
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