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Genmäle on Rosa suionum
(1985)  Page(s) 237-239.  Includes photo(s).
 
Translation:
.... In the latest issue of the magazine [Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift] Nannfeldt (1985) states that this identity “is - mildly said - extremely unlikely ”. I would therefore like to return with clarifying information.
It is obvious, that what Sangerhausen now grows under the name of Rosa x alba 'Minette' is the rose we called Rosa suionum. Sangerhausen has transmitted pressed comparative material, which shows, among other things leaves with accessory small leaves at the head of the end leaflet (Fig. 1). Nannfeldt denotes the occurrence of such as "the most original feature of our Rose".
This identity has not been questioned by Nannfeldt. However, he notes that the name 'Minette' can be used incorrectly in Sangerhausen. This opportunity of course, and that is why I am searched literature on 'Minette'. I also found descriptions, which matched very well with the rose in question. It was unfortunate that I didn't quote at least the oldest and most elaborate extenso in the previous article. It, and another, something later, now reproduced here in the original language and in translation. 
The first description, from Prévost (1830), was added eleven years after the variety was first presented. The second, from Boitard (1836), has much in common with this and it is likely that it partly served as a model. [Please see the listing 'Minette' of Vibert for these descriptions, which Merker quotes in the original French and in Swedish translation. Prévost's publication is from 1829, only the supplement is from 1830]
....Particularly it can be emphasized that they bring up the multifaceted accessory small leaves at the base of the end leaflet. When Prévost describes the rosehip as 'oval' or 'ovoid'void' means fat rosehips, which, in France's milder climate can be more common than with us. I have only received on my ten-year-old bush one smooth, top-shaped hip. A color photo of a suionum rosehip from a Swedish plant site however, is published in Hemträdgården (Loménius 1982).
.....Nannfeldt brings up the idea that ​​the North American wild species Rosa virginiana could have played a role in the origin of our rose. I have been inside the same track. R. virginiana has few prickles, forms suckers, is extremely undemanding and hardy, is late blooming, has glossy leaf tops, a hybrid tea-form of protruding flowers as well beautiful autumn leaves, all reminiscent of R. suionum. Height and planting methods also agree. According to Shepherd, R. virginiana has been grown in Europe since 1724; Parkinson mentions it from England as early as 1640 in his Theater of plants (quoted from Bunyard 1936). - Other American varieties interesting in this context seem 'Banshee' and 'Blush gallica', briefly described in Bunyard 1936 p. 146-147.
....it is clear that suionum come to the north from regions wih hotter summers. This is supported, among other things, that with us usually only a small number of flower buds expand in bloom, while the vast majority are mummified, i.e. dry up, alternatively mold and rot. Only during better summers you get satisfactory flowering. It has this inconvenience in common with several other non-Nordic varieties.....
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