95 Old Roses: Hybrid Perpetual Roses.
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This article is from the Rose Gardening FAQ, by Bill Chandler chandler@austin.ibm.com, Jolene Adams jolene@cchem.berkeley.edu, Brent C. Dickerson odinthor@csulf.edu, Karen Baldwin kbaldwin@veribest.com, and many contributors
95 Old Roses: Hybrid Perpetual Roses.
As the breeding work continued in the late 1820's with the Hybrid
Chinas, Hybrid Bourbons, and Hybrid Noisettes, they were crossed with
the hardiest re-blooming roses they had on hand, the Damask Perpetuals.
Thus was born the race of Hybrid Perpetuals, which soon grew to
encompass as well any re-blooming progeny of the Hybrid Chinas, etc. A
first, very obscure, reblooming hybrid, `Hybride Remontant a Bois
Lisse', peeks at us from 1829, another eight or so show up over the
next decade, and soon the floodgates opened, thousands being released
over the next sixty years. They were crossed with each other and with
the Bourbons and Damask Perpetuals until a nearly full range of color
from blush white to deepest red and purple was obtained; only purest
white and yellow eluded them for a time, spurring interesting
experiments (as we shall see). Typically, a Hybrid Perpetual will have
big, cabbagey blossoms at the top of a long, often arching cane. As
HP's were developed simultaneously with the rise of rose shows and
competition, the forms became increasingly refined over the years from
the original muddled or quartered look (now back in fashion!) to a
rather fulsome version of what we might expect in a rose of today. Many
HP's show a tendency towards fungal diseases, requiring a careful
program of spraying. The thrill of a garden full of big, fragrant HP's
in full bloom is something not to be forgotten; many will think of this
and be quick to forgive them their often miserly rebloom. They began to
fade from the scene with the advent of the Hybrid Tea. `Baronne
Prevost', `Victor Verdier', `Charles Lefebvre', `Jules Margottin',
`American Beauty', `General Jacqueminot', `Frau Karl Druschki', `Georg
Arends', `Mrs. John Laing', `Souvenir d'Alphonse Lavalle', `Reine des
Violettes', `Tartarus'.
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