Some new tea roses and overlooked species roses for gardens

Chapter 1 (extract 7) of "Roses for English Gardens" by Jekyll and Mawley (1902), noting the appearance of the new hybrid tea "Dawn", which was later to prove so important in rose breeding, as well as some overlooked species roses.

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Among the recent garden Roses of great merit is the beautiful hybrid Tea Dawn, also Rosa sinica Anemone, a little tender, but lovely against a wall; while every year is adding to our garden Roses of the loose, half-double Tea class such good things as Sulphurea and Corallina, whose names denote their colourings.

Several beautiful species, formerly in botanical collections only, have also been brought into use, while others have been introduced. Among these are R. altaica, described in the chapter on Brier Roses. Then we have R. macrantha, with large pink blooms, and Andersoni, also with pink flowers; they both make handsome, rather large, bushes.

Others of the good wild Roses are dealt with in the chapter on Species as Garden Roses.

LIST: Various—

• Rosa sinica Anemone; pink (tender).
• R. moschata nivea; white.

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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)

The rugosa roses (Rosa rugosa)

Sweet Briars (Rosa rubiginosa) and the Penzance hybrids