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Rose Breeder
Listing last updated on Wed Aug 2024
South Carolina
United States
[From Belgique Horticole 8 (1858), pp. 65-66:] Andrews Gray, Charleston, Caroline du Sud, U.S.A.
[From A Heritage of Roses, by Hazel le Rougetel, p. 46:] Mr. Gray [was] a Charleston [South Carolina] Florist in the mid-1800s.
[From Rose Letter, May 2013, p. 2:] Andrew Gray..... had first worked for the rose breeder and famous rose author Robert Buist in Philadelphia but soon moved to Charleston, S.C., where he became the gardener of Governor Thomas Bennett. He also opened his own business, Commercial Gardens, where he raised a yellow seedling from ‘Cloth of Gold’ (also called ‘Chromatella’) in 1853, a tea rose which he introduced the following year, naming it for his oldest daughter Isabella Gray.
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