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'Jacksonia' rose References
Article (magazine) (Feb 2013) Page(s) 4. Buist bred several roses. Among them were two hybrid chinas, ‘Hibbertia’, named for his partner [Thomas Hibbert], and ‘Jacksonia’, probably named for the seventh president of the United States. Both appeared about 1830.
Book (1936) Page(s) 366. Jacksonia (Bengal) Buist ca. 1830 = Hundred-leaved Daily.
Book (1922) Page(s) 177. Official List of Roses Introduced in America. Compiled by Charles E. F. Gersdorff Jacksonia, China.* (Buist, about 1830.)
*variety no longer in commerce
Book (1852) Page(s) 68. Rosa Indica or (Bengal of the French) Chinese Ever-blooming Roses. Jacksonia*, hundred-leaved daily, or crimson daily, bright red, large and most perfectly double, of luxuriant growth, and more prickly (spines) than any other rose of the sort we have seen.
*In compliment to the late President Jackson.
Website/Catalog (1844) Page(s) 4. Everblooming Chinese Roses. Bengal. This class of Roses is particularly hardy, enduring the severest winters of the middle States; constant blooming, and many of them very fragrant. 50 cents each — per dozen $3 to $5. Jacksonia... bright red
Book (1834) Page(s) 186. China Roses. No. 25. *Rosa Jacksonia, is deep red, large, and very double, of luxuriant growth; is more spiny and elastic than any of the China roses that have come under our observation. The plant altogether is unique in its character, and flowers profusely.
*Those marked thus * we have grown from seed.
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