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Introduction

The roses
1. Gros Choux d'Hollande
2. Milkmaid
3. Jeanne D'Arc
4. Rubens
5. Slater's Crimson China
6. D'Aguesseau
7. Niphetos
8. Desprez à Fleur Jaune
9. Mme Alfred Carrière
10. Noëlla Nabonnand
11. Parkzierde
12. Bullata
13. Reine des Violettes
14. Solfaterre
15. Meg Merrilies
16. Reine des Iles Bourbon
17. Fortuniana
18. Sombreuil
19. Molly Sharman-Crawford
20. Gruss an Teplitz
21. Maman Cochet
22. Souvenir de la Malmaison
23. Fantin-Latour
24. Waldfee
25. Harison's Yellow

Twenty-two

  • Sophie's Perpetual
  • Soupert et Notting
  • Souvenir d'Alphonse Lavallée

Souvenir de la Malmaison

(1843, Mme Desprez x tea rose) Also known as "Queen of Beauty", the most famous and most beautiful of the Bourbon roses (if a bit fussy about wet weather). It is a rose of memory; everyone who knows it seems to have a vivid recollection of an encounter with a particular specimen. Although at times they may have difficulty remembering the exact location, the magnificence of the plant itself is imprinted on their hearts.

  • Souvenir de Mme Auguste Charles
  • Souvenir de Mme Léonie Viennot
  • Souvenir de St. Anne's
  • Souvenir de Thérèse Lovet
  • Souvenir d'Elise Vardon
  • Souvenir du Docteur Jamain
  • Souvenir d'un Ami
  • Spencer
  • Splendens
  • Spong
  • Stanwell Perpetual
  • Summer Blush
  • Superb Tuscan
  • Surpasse Tout

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