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Is the identity of the rose(s) shown in the various photos certain? This is not what I would anticipate for a rose which was described early on as "deep cerise," "light red," "bright purplish red," or even just "cerise pink."
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Interesting that none of the references mention a white eye.
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13 JAN by
 HubertG
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I don't know it's provenance but if it's described as lighter than 'Nancy Hayward' and darker than 'Jessie Clark', and is clearly a Gigantea hybrid, it's probably right. I suspect that the earliest flowers in August/winter are more saturated in colour than the later ones. I haven't grown it but I have grown 'Jessie Clark' and its blooms faded quite quickly on the plant, so perhaps this is also what is showing up in the photos here.
The photo of 'Flying Colours' in the 2014 Mistydowns catalogue shows what could be described as a dark pink/cerise/light red flower and the photo in Peter Cox's book 'Australian Roses' is also a similar shade.
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The references to Jessie Clark don't mention a white eye either. Maybe just imprecision of early reports.
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Surely this is a photo of Pernetiana 'Souvenir de Georges Pernet', not of Polyantha 'Georges Pernet'.
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There are a few things about 'Purity' wich don't quite jell.
* The breeder: Hoopes – or Farrell?
* The date bred. At the moment 1917 is shown.
* It was mentioned in the 1919 ref that it was from the same hip as 'Christine Wright', and the date of that rose is 1909.
* There are two different seed parents listed.
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"Early hybridization [for the firm] directed by Hoopes, effected by James A. Farrell" (Roll-Call, by Brent C. Dickerson, 2nd edition, 2024, entry for Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas, p. 226).
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1 FEB by
jedmar
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Lengthy mostly biographical article on Fenzi in Madroño, vol. 7, 1943, p. 18ff.
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