Magazine  (1835)  Page(s) Plate 249.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa de Lerchenfeld

Magazine  (1834)  Page(s) 184-185.  
 
Rosa de Lerchenfeld. This infinitely lovely rose bloomed in the month of June in my garden. I received it as a new rose variety from Mr. Falke, the famous horticulturist in Nürnberg. He obtained this by mixing of pollen, and entrusted me to name the most beautiful of all white roses. I named it after one of the most diligent Flower Lover, in honour of one who already has done much for the promotion of the higher garden arts and floriculture [actually: "Blumisterei" - an old German word meaning the Art of Love of Flowers].

Description.
The plant is grafted, forms a tall shrub mit very many branches, which were full of blooms, even though I had planted it only in late autumn. The type of our semi-double garden rose is recognized at first sight. The foliage is quite identical, has the same colour, and form, with only the leaflets being smaller and somewhat together. This disappears in the following year, when the plant has developed a stronger growth. The calyx is also like that and not to be discerned from the parent. This new variety has only very small prickles, while the parent sort has only large prickles. This might be due to the fact that the plant is still young. But it discerns itself from the parent sort in that it has many dense and violet prickles on the flower stalks, while the parent variety has only a few prickles. The same is true of the ovary. Incidentally the Habit of the Bloom is the same in both varieties. The rose is however much larger, almost as much again, very deeply filled, the petals not fluttery, but expanded like in our hundert-leaved garden rose. Incidentally, the Rose has very much the habit of the Hundred-leaved Garden Rose, as large, the outer large convex petals totally white, the inner ones vivid incarnate, the most inner ones yellow from below up to the middle. Thus we have a true three-petalled rose, with 3 colours blending softly into each other, which is an unbelievably beautiful sight. It is a delicate, wonderfully beautiful infinitely lovely Rose, belonging to the class of the white garden rose, i.e. not Rosa gallica.

Culture.
Hardy, and abundant growth. The specimen I have has become tree-like already in its first year, which recommends this variety even more.