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"Miss Caroline" rose References
Newsletter (2019) Page(s) Summer issue, p. 28. The Duchesse de Brabant, a Tea, is fairly twiggy if you let her. Same with Miss Caroline. She looks more lika a China than a Tea. Miss Caroline is said to be a sport of Comtesse de Labarthe, the name ised for Duchesse de Brabant in Australia.
Newsletter (Oct 2009) Page(s) 22. [From "Texas Teas", by Claude Graves, Curator Chambersville Heritage Rose Garden] Another rose of great beauty and much interest is “Miss Caroline”, most likely a sport of Duchess de Brabant, discovered by Ruth Knopf in South Carolina, and named for one of her daughters. The very fragrant bloom is best described by Greg Lowery: “Identical in habit and flower colour to the parent, but with charming pointed ribbon-like petals that create a unique floral form we have never seen before
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