Chapter 1 (extract 6) of "Roses for English gardens by Jekyll and Mawley, in which Miss Jekyll notes the hardiness and pre-eminent suitability for hedges of Rosa rugs, its varieties and hybrids.
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Another Japanese Rose, R. rugosa, has also given some valuable varieties and hybrids. The beautiful white Blanc double de Coubert—whitest Rose of any known —has for purity of colour eclipsed the older, duller white Madame Georges Bruant, though this is still indispensable. Blanc double de Coubert is one of the best of Roses, for it blooms the whole summer through and well into autumn. Its rich, deep green foliage, highly polished though heavily reticulated, persisting till late in the year, gives it that look of perfect health and vigour that the leafage of so many Roses lacks in the later summer. The danger in rugosa hybrids is the tendency towards a strong magenta colouring, such as is suggested by the type. But in some of the seedlings a judicious choice of pollen parent has amply corrected this, as in the charming salmon-pink Conrad F. Meyer. This, with the white Scheelicht and the pretty white Fimbriata, are among the most charming of the rugosa varieties.
The great hardiness of the rugosas enables them to be used in exposed places where many kinds of Roses would be crippled or would perish. Their strong, bushy growth and somewhat ferocious armature of prickles fits them above all other Roses for use as hedges, and not hedges of ornament only, but effective hedges of enclosure and defence.
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LIST: R. rugosa — Vars. and Hybrids.
- Single, white.
- Blanc double de Coubert; pure white, double.
- Madame Georges Bruant; warm-white.
- Fimbriata; white.
- Mercedes; rose and white.
- Souvenir de Philemon Cochet; white, pink to centre.
- Rose Apples; pink.
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See also:
New Roses of the late Victorian era
Turner's Crimson rambler
Multiflora roses
Dwarf polyantha roses (Pompom roses)
The wichuriana roses (Rosa wichuriana hybrids)
Sweet Briars (Rosa rubiginosa) and the Penzance hybrids
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