Rose Breeder, Author and Discoverer  

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Czechoslovakia (former)

Marie Henrieta Chotek (full name: Henrieta Hermína Rudolfína Ferdinanda Marie Antonie Anna Chotková of Chotkov and Vojnin) (November 24, 1863 Dolná Krupá - February 13, 1946 Dolná Krupá).

Gräfin (Countess) Chotek was owner of the Brunswick-Chotek manor house in Dolná Krupá (near Trnava [Tyrnau], Slovakia (part of Kingdom of Hungary before 1918). She bought about 2000 roses from Geschwind's estate when he died in 1910 and planted them in her garden. She later issued several of his seedlings. Her 1929 catalogue lists 885 varieties for sale, of a total of about 6000 different roses.
After World War II, Gräfin Chotek had to leave Slovakia in 1946 and her garden fell into disuse.

(A full account by Vladimír Ježovič can be found in the Rosa Mundi issue of Autumn 2006.)