Chapter 1 (extract 8) of "Roses for English Gardens" by Jekyll and Mawley (1902), in which Miss Jekyll pays tribute to the work of Lord Penzance in creating the Penzance hybrids of sweet brier.
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The work of the late Lord Penzance among the Sweet Briers has given us a whole range of garden Roses of inestimable value. He sought to give colour and size by means of the pollen parent, and so obtained strong as well as tender colouring and also increased size, while retaining the scented leaf and the free character of growth. It seems as though this eminent lawyer, who in some of the years of his mature practice had to put the law in effect in decreeing the separation of unhappy human couples, had sought mental refreshment in the leisure of his latest days by devoting it to the happy marriages of Roses. Though his name will ever stand high in the records of legal practice, it is doubtful whether in years to come it will not be even more widely known in connection with the Roses he has left us, the fruits of the recreation of his last years of failing strength.
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LIST: Sweet Brier (R. rubiginosa)—
- Common, pink.
- Double, red.
- Janet's Pride; half-double, striped.
Penzance Hybrids of Sweet Brier, Selection
- Green Mantle; pink.
- Anne of Geierstein; rose.
- Rose Bradwardine; rose.
- Meg Merrilees; rose.
- Lady Penzance; copper.
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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)
Some new tea roses and species roses for gardens
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