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"Cemetery Rose rose Reviews & Comments
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Hi all, I am struggling to identify a rose, I have been told it is de la grifferaie and Dr pecs, what defining features can a call apon to set them apart, cheers.
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The "rose from everywhere" - lots of discussion about it in the past. It has turned up in every Australian state, as well as in NZ and the US. There is no clear identification for it, but it isn't De la Grifferaie (a multiflora descendant), despite being given that label in some Australian public gardens. The comments in the file are worth reading.
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Another study name in Australia is "Lismore". The rose from everywhere.
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Do we have a printed reference for this name please Margaret?
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I doubt it. What I have is: Provenance Lismore roadside ->; Barry Gibson -> Nancy Rudgley -> PT ->Renmark. The speculation about what it might be was so far off, I'll omit it; must have been before the days of easy internet access. I have two potted plants grown from cuttings taken at Renmark when we realised the North bed was going to go. Someone, probably John N, had already said it was "just the common foundling" but I hadn't seen it flowering before today.
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Thanks. I have added “Lismore Roadside”. It is flowering here now and the word ”just” is replaced here by “the stunningly beautiful”.
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I'm sorry if I've confused things - I think it was known to the people who gave it to us, just as "Lismore".
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REPOSTING GREGG LOWERY'S COMMENT FROM FACEBOOK, JUNE 2020:
(I didn't want this to be lost.)
Gregg Lowery Anita, ask anyone in Australia about our conversations regarding ID. We declared a mutual understanding that when we offered a name for a rose, it was not with authority of experience (none of us was born a hundred years before and could provide certainty), but with the name we had received a rose under. That was it. The unsolved mysteries are just that. Dr. Eugene Peck was a physician who lived and worked in Oakland and was among the founding members of the Heritage Roses Group. He was retired and a volunteer at the Oakland Public Library, and obsessed with gathering information from books and periodicals that dealt with roses popular in Oakland in the late 19th century. He found many roses in old Oakland gardens including his "12th Avenue Smoothie", so called in reference to the mostly thornless stems of the rose. We received this rose under many names including Gaspard Monge (cuttings from the rose originally planted in the San Jose Heritage), as well as from Roseraie de l'Hay and Schultheis. We saw it everywhere in Australian as well as NZ. What is so important about this rose, in my opinion is that it is so beautiful, with crepe-like texture to the petals and a pale green eye, or 'pointed' as Graham Thomas described it—what Ruth Knopf referred to as a 'Steeple'. No wonder it is everywhere. Don't dwell on getting the name right. The story of its enthrallment over all who see it is enough.
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You're welcome. Information too good to be lost in FB.
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And too much information in both the Australian and American foundling files to keep them apart. I’ll merge "Dr. Peck's 12th Avenue Smoothie. (Cal. USA)” with "Mrs. Something (Q'ld. AUS)”
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Having a slight problem with that Merge. We’ll get to it.
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Simply based upon someone's memory of this rose being a "Mrs. Something", I wonder if it is 'Mrs Elliott'. The mauve-pink flowers seem to fit the bill and it apparently was in Australia early on. I found this reference in 'The Victorian Farmers Journal and Gardeners Chronicle' of 9 Feb, 1861, page 20:
"this queen of flowers, the good much-loved old English rose - we have not lagged so far behind, as the following list will testify, which are now largely grown throughout the colony, viz .- Auguste Mie, Aimee Vibert, Baronne Prevot, Boule de Nanteuil, Chenedole, Cloth of Gold, Coupe de Hebe, Devoniensis, Dupetit Thouars Duchess of Sutherland, Frederick II., Geant des Batailles, General Jacqueminot, Jacques Laffette, La Ville de Bruxelles, La Reine, Magna Rosea, Madame Andot, Do.Bravy, Do. Laffay, Do. Maurin, Do. Trudeux, Do. Zoutman, Mrs Bosanquet, Do. Elliott, Paul Ricaut,Malmaison, Vicomtesse de Cazes... "
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No, it doesn't repeat. A pity. The UK and Sangerhausen grow it as Gaspard Monge.
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31 OCT 19 by
HubertG
Ah, no matter. It was just a thought.
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