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Modern Garden Roses
(1988)  Page(s) 18, 30.  
 
Page 18: (1935) Its deep [red] colour, fragrance and good form are still unequaled; poor growth and mildew are its undoing.
Page 30: Tantau (Germany) used seedlings from 'Crimson Glory' in his breeding program.
(1988)  Page(s) 18, 118.  
 
Page 18: ('Turner's Crimson Rambler' in Britain; 'Shi Tz-Mei or 'Ten Sisters' in China) red, cluster-flowering. 'Orleans Rose' descended from it.
Page 118: Hybrid Multiflora (OGR), medium red, 1893, ('The Engineers Rose'; 'Turner's Crimson Rambler'; 'Shi Tz-mei'; 'Ten Sisters'; 'Soukara-Ibara'); Turner, 1893; Ellwanger & Barry, 1895. Flowers bright crimson, fading toward blue, double, irregular blooms in large, pyramidal clusters; foliage light, leathery, disposed to mildew; very vigorous, climbing (15-24 ft.) growth; heavy, non-recurrent bloom.
(1988)  Page(s) 62.  Includes photo(s).
 
Description. Sybil Hathaway, Dame of Sark during World War II, was a keen rose lover. Near the end of her long life she gave permission for this rose to be named for her… [it was] something of a breakthrough [a hardy, healthy rose in orange, red and yellow shades] when Jack Harkness introduced it in 1976.
(1988)  Page(s) 126.  
 
De Candolle Moss, soft pink or rose-tinted, 1857, Portemer. Description.
(1988)  Page(s) 39.  Includes photo(s).
 
('Disco Dancer'; DICinfra) Pat Dickson. Won awards at the International Trials in Holland, Britain, Switzerland, Denmark and Japan. Description.
(1988)  Page(s) 20.  
 
[Harkness calls it Dr. Verhage'] Pretty good for cutting, but tender.
(1988)  Page(s) 15.  
 
'Slater's Crimson China' [was] lost for years, than found again in 1956, naturalized in Bermuda! To this, or something similar, we owe the origin of the first east-west hybrid … the 'Duchess of Portland' … the other parent was maybe a Gallica or Damask… it came to England around 1800 … it was the first hybrid to combine the eastern genes for extended flowering with the western ones for hardiness and vigour, and it was the bringer of red into our garden roses.
(1988)  Page(s) 49.  Includes photo(s).
 
Description. Its good qualities are its fragrance -- surprisingly sweet and pervasive for a vermilion rose -- and its neat habit and prolific flower production… [negatives qualities are] liability to die-back, rust and mildew.
(1988)  Page(s) 26, 27.  
 
Page 26: 'Sweetbriar' was used by Wilhelm Kordes to breed in hardiness.
Page 27: fragrant foliage
(1988)  Page(s) 63.  Includes photo(s).
 
Listed under 'Peaudouce' (DICjana, 'Elina') Description. The name used in the United Kingdom means 'soft skin' and is associated with a leading manufacturer of babies' diapers.
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