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‘Crimson Conquest’. Probably the best dark red rambler, the double flowers appearing first as attractive pointed buds then revealing striking golden stamens.

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‘Danse du Feu’ this new climber will attain a height of 10 ft and is one of the best of all climbing roses. Its vermilion coloured blooms are borne throughout summer and autumn and withstand both hot and wet weather. It is very hardy.

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p85 Of compact habit, the colour is unique, the blooms being borne in clusters and are of glowing coral flushed with salmon and orange. The blooms carry a delicious wild rose fragrance. Somewhat liable to rust and it is not a strong grower.

p169 ‘Crimson Glory’ produced the celebrated ‘Fashion’, which in turn became the parent of that grand floribunda ‘Ma Perkins’, raised by the famous Gene Boerner,

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Forty-Niner Cl.    Strongly fragrant.  A unique rose, the crimson-brown blooms having a buff reverse whilst they carry the aroma of ripe apples.  The blooms last well both when cut and in the garden

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General MacArthur.  Strongly fragrant.  Though introduced more than half a century ago it still remains an excellent bedding rose forming a plant of bushy habit and bearing an abundance of light crimson-cerise blooms in clusters.  

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'Golden Revelry'. Of vigorous, free flowering habit, it bears an abundance of medium-sized golden yellow blooms over a long period.

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Humpty Dumpty  A R. polyantha nana hybrid, growing only 6 in. tall and bearing clusters of carmine-pink flowers throughout summer.

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Karl Forster. Crossed with 'Frau Karl Druschki', R. spinossima altaica has produced this fine hedging plant. It makes a dense bushy growth and bears large double white flowers.

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p36   From the second half of the nineteenth century, breeders began to cross the tea roses with the hybrid perpetuals, and in 1867, from a batch of seedlings raised from a crossing of the hybrid perpetual Mme Victor Verdier, with the tea rose Madame Bravy, Monsieur Guillot at Lyons selected one which differed from all the others.   It was named La France by the Horticultural Society of Lyons and in 1867 introduced to the public.  It is still to be found, and with its hardiness, compact habit, and the sweet fragrance of its large delicately coloured silvery-pink reflexed blooms, remains one of the finest roses of all time.   It brought in a new race of roses, being the first hybrid tea rose, obtaining its tea rose characteristics from the old tea rose Safrano through Mme. Victor Verdier, the same rose that was later to become the parent of the modern rose, through its offspring, Lady Fitzwilliam,  raised by Henry Bennett a quarter of a century after La France appeared.   Though the first hybrid tea was introduced in 1867, it was not until William Paul’s Cheshunt Hybrid appeared five years later that the new group was given recognition and the rose named the hybrid tea.  

p106    it is pleasing to recall that the first hybrid tea rose, the silvery-pink La France possessed a delicious sweet perfume, and in a letter to the Gardener’s Magazine of 1894, the writer mentions ‘that in hospitals the sick patients, if invited to choose just one rose, always select La France’, almost entirely because of its perfume.  

p172.  The National Rose Society held its first show at the St. James Hall, nineteen years after Dean Hole’s National Show and there were 100 exhibitors.   The chief prize of 50 guineas, a lot of money in those days, was won by ..............The hybrid tea as a class was unknown but La France, the first to be introduced in 1867, was exhibited ten times.........

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'Meg'. Though not quite so beautiful, may be said to be an easy 'Mermaid'. The large yellow and pink blooms are produced with great freedom throughout the season. A new climbing rose with a great future.