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The Agatha rose is, or was, large-flowered, known in Provence about 1435. Varieties: 'Admirable Agatha', 'Beautiful Iris Agatha', 'Beloved Agatha', 'Agatha of the King', 'Agatha Triumph of Venus', 'Agatha Great Sultana', 'Agatha Supreme', and 'Voluptuous Agatha'. Few remain of that prolific family, but Edward Bunyard mentioned the 'Agathes' as smaller editions of the cabbage rose.

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Agathe Incarnata Rosa agathe incarnata The Agatha rose is dedicated to a Christian martyr, St. Agatha, a Sicilian virgin, born at Palermo, and put to death by Quintianus, Governor of Sicily in AD 251, because she rejected his advances. Her fest day is 5 February and she has, not a rose, but a primrose for her flower. The Agatha incarnata, known to Philip Miller as Rosa incarnata -- is neat, tidy and very sweetly scented, and seems to be the sole survivor of the charming and numerous family.

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The Agatha rose is dedicated to a Christian martyr, St. Agatha, a Sicilian virgin, born at Palermo, and put to death by Quintianus, Governor of Sicily in AD 251, because she rejected his advances. Her feast day is 5 February ... The Agatha rose is, or was, a large flowered rose, known in Provence about 1435. There are a number of varieties named in her honor ... Edward Bunyard mentioned the "Agathes" as smaller editions of the cabbage rose. The 'Agatha Incarnata', known to Philip Miller as Rosa incarnata, is neat, tidy and very sweetly scented.

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Sir Thomas Hanmer gives the first mention of the Autumn Damask in England. "'The Monthly Rose,' a very Damaske in leaves and sent, but it beares two or three moneths more in the yeare than the ordinary Damaske, and very plentifully, if it stand warme. It is called often Rosa Italica."

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It produces large, 3-inch, semi-double, light crimson flowers (pinker in warmer climates) which open wide to reveal a boss of golden stamens in the center. Large red hips in fall. Previously known as 'Maxima'. Thought to be the once 'red damask'.

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'Schneezwerg' x 'Fru Dagmar Hastup'. Canadian Explorer Series (Canada) 1974. Description. The blossoms are clear bright mid-pink... semi-double... gold stamens... very hardy.

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They grow in clusters six to eight feet high, and appear to be a different development of the gallicas, with possibly a damask inheritance, and derived from some specialized condition or with a hybrid strain about them. The stems are set with reddish bristles, and the flowers are composed of two layers of petals, deep crimson and suffused with purple, having an almost white central zone surrounding a centre of golden stamens. With age the flower changes to violet crimson declining into slate or violet-brown, with this sad departure of youth, the stamens blacken. It has an early but short blooming season. According to Graham Thomas, it is a difficult rose to place...

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York and Lancaster We must no longer believe that splendid quarrel scene between Richard Plantagenet and the Earl of Somerset in the Temple Garden in Henry VI Part I, when red roses and white were torn from their bushes to serve as badges for the opposing armies of Lancaster and York... it is not history. According to Norman Young, the white rose was the Yorkist badge fifty years before that scene, and the Red Rose of Lancaster was older still by a hundred years. ut after the Wars of the Roses ended, the Red Rose of Lancaster and the White Rose of York were finally combined in the symbolic red and white Tudor rose.