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"Belle Amour" rose Reviews & Comments
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From The Quest for the Rose, by Phillips & Rix, pg. 20:
"BELLE AMOUR An Alba. Leaves are uncharacteristic. Found by Nancy Lindsay on the wall of an old convent at Elboeuf in Normandy, introduced 1950. Height to 180 cm (6 ft). Myrrh scented."
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29 AUG by
 jedmar
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Reference added, thank you!
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I find the rampant, lanky growth habit, the all thorny canes, and the flower colour and medicinal (myrrh) scent of this rose strikingly similar to Austin’s famous Constance Spry. I wonder if it has occurred to others that Constance Spry’s true parent might be Belle Amour rather than Belle Isis...? Apart from the myrhh scent, CS has no resemblance to the Belle Isis growing in my garden. BI is a rather dainty, small bush and susceptible to black spot.
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Quite by chance I purchase 'Belle Amour' and 'Constance Spry' at the same time a couple of decades ago. Planting them side by side in the nursery, I came to the same conclusion as you: 'Belle Amour' must be the true parent of 'Constance Spry.' Naturally, it was never a popular speculation with fellow rose growers, so I have kept quiet about my observation until now. I am happy someone has come to the same conclusion.
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30 NOV 20 by
Jukka K
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Interesting. The two are so similar that I even find it quite likely that CS is self-pollinated BA.
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Available from - Old Market Farm
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This para from a letter to a friend may be pertinent to my previous comment in "Belle Amour":
....I have a rather nice new vase with some rather nice writing engraved on it. .....thanks to Susan Ronk who carried this heavy vase from Sydney and delivered it to Northcliffe today (November 18, 2016) Susan, Judy Goldfinch and I then spent a few hours among the roses in full bloom. We each took blooms of "Belle Amour" and 'Constance Spry' in each hand and started sniffing for myrrh [see Last journal, page. 58]. "Belle Amour" smelt wonderful for us all. But I couldn't get any perfume at all from 'Constance Spry'; Susan's reaction was "It is different"; and Judy's was "I really don't know what I am doing". So we just filled the vase right up with beautiful blooms and it was a very happy day.
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