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Initial post 2 days ago by jacques verschuren
I am looking for the (business)relation between Blaby Rose Gardens and Verschuren rosenurseries in The Netherlands in the 1950-1960s. How come several Verschuren roses were Blaby named: Blaby Monarch, Blaby Courier, Blaby Jubilee?
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Reply #1 of 2 posted 2 days ago by jedmar
Blaby Rose Gardens was managed by a Dutchman, Bernard Hanraads, which explains the business relations with de Ruiter and Verschuren. We added some notes under this listing. A Bernard Hanraads is still on linkedin.com, possibly a descendant. You might try to contact him.
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Reply #2 of 2 posted 2 days ago by jacques verschuren
I have a policereport on Mr. and Mrs. Biesheuvel (owners of Blaby Rose Gardens) getting killed in a carcrash in The Netherlands on 16 april 1960. Former employees speak of 'The Manager of Blaby Rose Gardens when I worked there was a man called Jim Chamney' and 'the manager was Mr Walter J Clark'. So....quite some names to check, although the first obviously is not to be consulted
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Initial post 24 MAR by Daniel from Normandy
Bonjour,
The Rosenlexikon est très souvent mentionné dans les Références.
Pourriez-vous ajouter à la présentation de ce livre ce que veulent dire par exemple 3/10 pour le parfum et surtout pour la taille du rosier ?
Merci.
Cordialement
Daniel
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Reply #1 of 3 posted 24 MAR by jedmar
Dans le Rosenlexikon, le parfum et la croissance des roses sont notés de 1 à 10. Nous montrons cela entre 1/10 et 10/10.
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Reply #2 of 3 posted 2 days ago by Daniel from Normandy
OK, mais je ne comprends toujours pas ce que veut dire x/10 pour la croissance d'une rosier.
Le Rosenlexikon se trouve être en vente en ligne actuellement, mais c'est autour de 150 Euros !
Cordialement,
Daniel
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Reply #3 of 3 posted 2 days ago by jedmar
La croissance 8-10/10 denoté très vigoureux: e.g. Veilchenblau: 8/10; Dorothy Perkins: 9/10
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Initial post 3 NOV 13 by AquaEyes
OK, trying again....

The 1824 Pronville reference does NOT classify it as once-blooming. The second quoted segment in the reference here does not refer to 'Var. Anemating' but instead is a sort of "side-note" about China roses -- though they were previously described under the header of "semperflorens" ("ever-blooming"), their seedlings bloom once per year. This probably refers to the time before controlled pollination, and the hips collected from the Chinas may thus be pollinated by once-blooming European roses, the resulting seedlings being once-blooming Hybrid Chinas. Please see link below, start at page 177 (where the header of LVII 'R. semperflorens' appears at line 277), then follow through the list of repeat-blooming Chinas. Then, on page 178, you'll see the next line quoted in the reference for this rose appearing as a sort of side-note: "N. B. Toutes les varietes de semis du bengal ne fleurissent qu'une fois l'anee" which translates to "All varieties of China seedlings bloom only once a year".

www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/52529#page/194/mode/1up

The 1826 Noisette reference (linked below) does list this rose among other known once-blooming Hybrid Chinas, and that is a bit of a mystery, considering the other references listed here. I wonder if perhaps a seedling of 'Animating' was passed off as 'Animating' and Noisette described that rose. The practice of giving parent-names to seedlings was not always known to be incorrect at that time -- surely the subtle variations of the first Chinas in Europe as depicted in paintings and descriptions result from, for example, seedlings of 'Slater's Crimson' being raised as 'Slater's Crimson'. Another possibility is that Noisette simply made an error.

Considering that Noisette's is the only reference calling the rose once-blooming, and that other references list this rose as among those imported directly from China (thus not a "classic Hybrid China" with a European rose parent), is it not more likely that one reference was incorrect about this characteristic rather than that all the others were?

www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95904#page/531/mode/1up

:-)

~Christopher
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Reply #1 of 3 posted 4 days ago by odinthor
LeRouge (1819) says, "There aren’t any fanciers who can make it bloom all year."
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Reply #2 of 3 posted 3 days ago by jedmar
Could it be that there were different roses propagated under this name? The 1823 reference states it was blooming end of September in Boursault's garden.
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Reply #3 of 3 posted 3 days ago by odinthor
While it's intellectually conceivable that there could be different China roses under one name, the rose folks of that time (and of all times!) were pretty sharp-eyed for (a) new roses on the scene, and (b) shenanigans by competitors and rivals. It would be most odd if someone wouldn't have published something warning people not to get two same-named roses mixed up, especially as one was a sparse bloomer, indeed perhaps a once-bloomer. That, and 'Animating' (in whatever form) is a most odd name for a rose (could the Chinese equivalent, with different naming traditions, have been the original name back in its place of origin?). That two roses at the same time would manage independently to have the same weird name seems unlikely; that someone would attempt a rip-off by knowingly naming another rose the same would be lunacy, given what I stated above, that the rose folks of that time were pretty sharp-eyed (especially when dealing with a comparatively new, exciting, and so closely-watched category like Chinas which had quite a limited number of varieties at that time to deal with)--the fraud would be detected without much delay, and the fraudster denounced. I tend to think that the range of differences found would more likely be due to cultural factors--own-root/grafted, grown outdoors/grown in a glass-house, weather here/weather there, even perhaps just the simple amount of skill or lack of it for particular growers.
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Initial post 3 days ago by Patricia Routley
Who was the breeder - Hansen or Whitman Cross? See references.
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Reply #1 of 2 posted 3 days ago by jedmar
Neils Hansen was the gardener of Whitman Cross in Chevy Chase. It seems that this rose was registered from the beginning as a cultivar of Hansen.
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Reply #2 of 2 posted 3 days ago by Patricia Routley
Thanks Jedmar.
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