The Century 12: 435 (July 1876) Science explains and classifies; its flowers are always in rows, as at a greenhouse. Poetry comes along, selects a rose-tree, takes it home, and sees it blossom in the front yard.
Poetry, in the disguise of a friend of the present writer, did this very thing the other day. It or he—the friend—bought a Gloire de Rosaméne from a sordid city greenhouse and planted it in the little strip of earth that runs between brick-walk on one side, and high brick-wall on the other, along the whole length of a certain long and narrow front yard in this very city. Do you know the Gloire de Rosaméne? It is first cousin to the wild rose. It has the grace of culture, but it has not lost the charm of nature and of the country. “It is an abundant bloomer, and its flowers are cupped, large, semi-double, and of a brilliant deep scarlet.” One dewy morning we saw it open its deep eyes and put to shame, with its intense, and penetrating, and reticent gaze, the shallow classification of the mere man of science.
The Gardeners’ Monthly and Horticulturist 2(7): 195 (July 1860) Among hybrid Bourbons Souvenier d’Anselme proves particularly hardy, and will drive Gloire de Rosamene entirely out of cultivation as a pillar rose. We call attention to this matter at this season because now is the time to take notes of such as grow strong and vigorously.
Thank you! What a perfect description of 'Gloire des Rosomanes': "....the grace of culture, but it has not lost the charm of nature." I am so glad to have this rose in my garden. Rarely without a bloom, it adds that charm and liveliness to the garden and to any vase or posy. The buds and hips and red stamens and leaves that look as though they have been cut out with pinking shears are all delightful.
It hasn't been the easiest rose to grow here Karl - took quite a few years to begin to grow happily in hot summerland. As a young plant, the stems were more susceptible to sunburn than other roses and that set them back quite badly each summer. Lost the first plant to sunburn and the second one was given a bit of protection - I used dried grass to loosely cover the stems in the summer. After about five years it began to look comfortable and to grow more strongly. I wonder whether it would be worth persevering in a colder climate as well?
Is it still going well? It's one of roses I keep looking at as it features quite often in the lineages of so many roses but reading about it's trouble with sunburn from both you and Patrica in a comment further down leaves me cautious.
I assume, the foliage fragrance is peppery? I don't think I've come across anything that specifically says anything on the character of the scent.
Midland Florist and Suburban Horticulturist vol. 3, page 364 (Jan to Dec, 1849)
I was going through a nursery ground the other day, and was much struck, with Gloire de Rosamene. The colour is intense scarlet; but then it is only semidouble; yet I made up my mind, though it is old, to add it to my collection. In colour I think it is pre-eminent, and certainly I shall try to raise seedlings from it.
Cottage Residences, p. 115 (1842) Andrew Jackson Downing Bourbon Roses Gloire de Rosamond
The Rose Manual, p. 105 (1844) Robert Buist Of the latter, Gloire de Rosamond will give great brilliancy of colour, and is very suitable for the purpose, as it already partakes of the Noisette habit.
The Gardener's Monthly and Horticultural Advertiser, p. 140 (May 1868) Walter Elder, Philada. The Rose gives fragrance to all its colors; but the Gloire de Rosamond, which approaches nearest to scarlet, is as scentless as the Yellow Harrison.
The Gardeners’ Monthly and Horticulturist 22: 227 (August 1880) Of Bourbons we have Gloire de Rosamond tolerably hardy; but after all these are rather fall than ever-bloomers.
Vicks Monthly Magazine 6: 170 (June 1883) Ada Daring I was fortunate in finding a cluster of Jacqueminot Roses and a Gloire de Rosamond, and I was happy, too, in finding a cluster of glistening Malmaison Roses. Oh, how beautiful the flowers were that glad day!
Redlands: Some Adornment In Landscape Gardening Delivered by A.K. Smiley, at the tenth quarterly session of the Southern California Farmers Institute of Redlands December 18, 1894 Gloire de Rosamond is a very valuable Bourbon rose, very sweet, semi-double, freest winter blooms; will make a good hedge, but has not enough fill-ins to prevent passing through it.
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - 1908 The single Cherokee rose makes white the hedges, and climbs and covers the adjacent trees, and this is often intermingled with the crimson Gloire de Rosamonde.
Everblooming Roses for the Out-door Garden of the Amateur - 1912 Georgia Torrey Drennan Polyantha grandiflora, silvery white; Bardou Job, blackish red; Lena, blended apricot and primrose yellow, and Gloire de Rosamonde, bright pink, each with a heart of gold, blooming in clustered sprays, are invaluable for cutting; the more they are cut, the more they bloom.
Historic Gardens of Virginia - Page 350 (1930) Edith Tunis Sale Among the roses growing in this border were such old-fashioned varieties as Lorraine, Cinnamon, Damask, Hermosa, Gloire de Rosamond, La Reign, and Souvenir de Malmaison.
Adobe Days - 1931 Sarah Bixby Smith We loved the rich red of the Gloire de Rosamonde, — isn't that a more attractive name than Ragged Robin, or is it after all too imposing for the friendly, familiar rose?
Southern California Gardens, p. 48 (1961) Victoria Padilla There were a number of other roses—the prickly yellow Scotch roses, the red “Gloire de Rosamond,” and the “Chromatella,” whose great yellow buds hung over the pale green balustrade of the upper balcony of the house.
