(Nov 1990)  Page(s) 27.  Includes photo(s).
 
"Canary Island Rose".  This particular specimen had arrived many years before with immigrants from the Canary Islands. The immigrant rose had rooted well, forming a large thicket of canes.

photo caption: Greg Grant and Pam Puryear examine an old Gallica Rose in San Antonio as the owner explains that it originally came from the Canary Islands during the 1920s.

(Nov 1990)  
 
"McClinton Tea". I stumbled across a small garden on the east side of town...Mrs. McClinton promptly answered the knock on her door and cheerfully allowed me to take cuttings of a highly perfumed pink Tea which was blooming well, though it was then the Christmas season. She had rooted the plants, she told me, from cuttings given to her by a friend many years before....

(Nov 1990)  Page(s) 155.  
 
"McClinton Tea" a found rose 6'-8'. I discovered this rose in the cottage garden of Mrs. McClinton in Natchitoches, Louisiana, during the Christmas season several years ago. It ranks among the very best roses I grow. Flowers are bright pink, semi-double, and very heavily scented with what I consider typical Tea fragrance. The reverse of the petals is much darker than the inside. The plant can be slow to get established but soon becomes a large and beautiful specimen that has excellent disease resistance. There is speculation from research that the true identity of this rose is 'Papa Gontier' (1883), but the only reference to scent I find for 'Papa Gontier' is in Peter Beales's book Classic Roses....where he describes it as "slightly scented". "McClinton Tea" perfumed the entire front garden where I collected it and has done the same in mine.

(Nov 1990)  Page(s) 155.  
 
"McClinton Tea" a found rose 6'-8'
I discovered this rose in the cottage garden of Mrs. McClinton in Natchitoches, Louisiana, during the Christmas season several years ago. It ranks among the very best roses I grow. Flowers are bright pink, semi-double, and very heavily scented with what I consider typical Tea fragrance. The reverse of the petals is much darker than the inside. The plant can be slow to get established but soon becomes a large and beautiful specimen that has excellent disease resistance. There is speculation from research that the true identity of this rose is 'Papa Gontier' (1883), but the only reference to scent I find for 'Papa Gontier' is in Peter Beales's book Classic Roses....where he describes it as "slightly scented". "McClinton Tea" perfumed the entire front garden where I collected it and has done the same in mine.