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‘Baltimore Belle’, a R. setigera crossed with a noisette, is pale pink, fading to white. Sometimes a dark petal calls attention to this very double rose with a button eye center. It does well on pillars. Depending on climate and soil, it may bloom again in autumn. This lovely old rose is widely distributed and sold. As to its name, one story claims it was named for a young girl, Hannah, who was responsible for reforming her alcoholic father and thereafter accompanied him on temperance lectures. Another claims it was named for Betsy Patterson (1785-1879), the rejected wife of Napoleon’s brother Jerome; but she was not at all fond of Baltimore. Quite likely, being a Baltimore bred rose, it was named for its own beauty.

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‘Herbemont’s Musk Cluster’ must have been outstanding. Karl King of Kentucky writes that Samuel Feast used it as a co-parent with Rosa setigera for some of his roses. In 1984 Charles A. Walker, Jr., wrote of seeing a rose grown in the garden of a Mrs. Ruth Westwood of Newberry, a town about forty miles from Columbia, a rose that he suspected might be ‘Herbemont Musk Cluster’.

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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.

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Around 1830 on his family estate in then-rural Manhattan, a quiet lawyer, George Folliott Harison, kept a greenhouse where he bred a fully double, darkly yellow rose that came to be called ‘Harison’s Yellow’. It was the first yellow rose developed in the United States. Propagated by William Prince, it was introduced in 1835. Another New York nurseryman, Thomas Hogg, also sold the rose, some of which a partner sent to England under the name of ’Hogg’s Yellow’; hence, its other— less common—name. The rose became quickly popular and spread through the developing nation. When it reached Texas, it became known as “The Yellow Rose of Texas.” ‘Harison’s Yellow’ has been found along the Oregon Trail and through California’s gold rush country. The rosarian Frances E. Lester found it growing in ghost towns and other deserted places there in the 1940s. Still available in some nurseries today, it is the third oldest surviving rose in the United States.

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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.

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In 1824 they introduced a noisette rose, ‘Landreth’s Carmine’ and around the same time a hybrid china named ‘Washington’. Although Robert Buist mentions ‘Landreth’s Carmine’ in his 1844 Rose Manual, these two roses may not have lasted much more than a generation, given that William R. Prince did not list them in his 1846 catalogue of more than 1600 roses.

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‘Queen of the Prairies’ (also known as ‘Beauty of the Prairies’ and ‘Feast’s No. 1’) was the first of his seedlings and considered by many to be his best. Crossed with a gallica, this rose can cover whole walls or fences with its twenty feet of double, deep rose blossoms bearing a white stripe in the center of most petals. The blooming period of these clustering flowers begins after most once-blooming roses are spent. Their main flaw is hanging onto the stems after turning from pink to white to brown.

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In 1824 they introduced a noisette rose, ‘Landreth’s Carmine’ and around the same time a hybrid china named ‘Washington’. Although Robert Buist mentions ‘Landreth’s Carmine’ in his 1844 Rose Manual, these two roses may not have lasted much more than a generation, given that William R. Prince did not list them in his 1846 catalogue of more than 1600 roses.