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    Registered Name: 'Chief Justice Holmes'
    ARS Approved Exhibition Name: Chief Justice Holmes
    Cl HT, dr, 1935, Schoener; flowers very dark red [Jules Margottin × Château de Clos Vougeot]. Awards:
    Gold Medal, Portland, 1936
    Book  (1937)  Page(s) 137.  
     
    Editor. So Black The Rose. ]
    The following extract from the Readers' Digest gives some idea of the great work being done by Father Schoener, the old Catholic priest in Santa Barbara, USA, and the immense possibilities that the future holds in the field of hybridisation -
    Have you ever seen a black Rose? Have you ever walked down an avenue of giant Rose trees - 16 to 20 feet high - that made you think you were wearing magnifying glasses? If you have, it probably means you've visited the experimental gardens of the 74 year-old Catholic priest in Santa Barbara, Father Schoener. A rosiculturist for close to half a century, he has in his garden at present 2,300 varieties of Roses. His velvety black Rose, whose creation has cost him much trouble, he has named in honour of his friend, the late Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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