Trees and Shrubs

Rosa ‘Tricolor de Flandre’

A Gallica rose.  Scented, almost fully double, pink flowers with purple stripes.  With upright habit and growing to 90cm, it makes a good pot specimen.  [Paul (1848, 1863), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Amat].

Rosa ‘Triomphe d’Avranches’

Hybrid perpetual.  ‘Triomphe d’Avranches’ has bright red, very large, globular and full flowers, on a dwarf shrub.  It was among the handful of roses, among 70 or 80 new imported varieties that bloomed well at Paul’s Nursery in 1856.  [Paul 1863, GC p.788/1856].

Rosa ‘Unique de Provence’

Moss rose.  Thomas Rivers wrote of this rose: ‘We have now also what was at one time thought to be impossible, viz., the Old Rose Unique mossed; this is called Moss Unique de Provence.  I cannot learn its origin; if from seed or otherwise; but am inclined to think it is a sport from our old favourite the Unique Rose; its habit is exactly similar and equally robust; its flowers of the same pure white, and blooming in the same large clusters; its flowers are however often imperfect.’  [Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863), Paul (1848, 1863, 1888)].

Rosa ‘Unique Rouge’

A Centifolia rose.  ‘Unique Rouge’ is a thorny shrub with very double, bright light pink, large or middle-sized flowers.  [Gore, Don, Paul 1848].

Rosa ‘Vesta’

Categorised by Catherine Gore as a Provins rose, by Paul as a Gallica rose and by Don as a Centifolia.  Gore describes ‘Vesta’ as a shrub, of which the buds are never red, a characteristic which distinguishes it from a number of very similar roses, the flowers large, semi-double, the petals velvety, of a light vivid crimson.  [Gore, Paul 1848, FC p.267/1835].

Rosa ‘Village Maid’

Gallica rose.  Catherine Gore describes it as a large, semi-double flower, white, striped with deep pink or cherry red.  William Paul gives a similar description, white flowers striped with rose and purple, large and full and pendulous, on a low-growing bush.  [Gore, Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903)].

The illustration used here is from the  Floricultural Cabinet.  This publication was cheaply produced and the colours often untrue. The reason for the blue rose depicted is probably loss of the red component of the purple paint used, either from bleeding into the opposite page, which isn't obvious, or from selective fading of pigment.

Rosa ‘Viscomte des Cazes’

Tea rose with loose and irregularly-shaped flower of an unusual shade of coppery-yellow, very decorative according to William Paul, very sweet scented, free growing and hardy, one of the most beautiful roses.  [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888), Rivers (1857, 1863, 1863), Henry Curtis p.25 vol.1/1850].

Rosa ‘Vorace’

Bourbon rose.  Dark crimson-purple in colour, cupped, large and full in form, of moderate growth but rather uncertain in its flowering.  [Paul (1863, 1888), Rivers (1857, 1863), FC p.61/1855].

Rosa ‘White Damask’

A number of old, white Damask roses are known.  Catherine Gore lists several, including the ‘White Rose of Italy’, with semi-double flowers, of a beautiful white, fragrant; ‘Dame Blanche’, the flowers double, large, of a pure white when expanded, the buds as red as those of the hundred-leaved rose; ‘Parure des Vierges’, semi-double, middle-sized, white.

Rosa ‘White Fairy’

‘White Fairy’ is almost certainly a white form of the ‘Dwarf Pink China’, the ‘Fairy Rose’, possibly the variety pallida or alba and almost certainly synonymous with Paul’s variety alba or Blanc, in his group of Lawrenceana or Fairy Roses.  [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903)].

Rosa ‘William Griffiths’

Hybrid perpetual.  ‘William Griffiths’ has pale satin-like rose-coloured flowers, large and full, expanded in form and it is a robust grower.  [Paul (1863, 1888), Henry Curtis p.31 vol.2/1853, FC p.229/1857].

Rosa ‘William Jesse’

Hybrid Perpetual.  It has very large, globular, full, highly fragrant flowers, crimson red, suffused with violet on the back of the petals.  Reported to make a good pillar rose.  [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888), Rivers (1854), Henry Curtis p. 29 vol.2/1853].

Rosa ‘William Lobb’

A Damask Moss rose.  A tall-growing rose with scented, purplish flowers which fade to a greyish-mauve, in summer only.  To 3m.  Introduced by Laffay in 1855.  [Paul (1863, 1888, 1903), Amat].

Rosa ‘York and Lancaster’

A Damask rose.  ‘York and Lancaster’ has large, full, loosely-globular, fragrant pink and white striped flowers on a vigorous bush. 

Rosa alba L. var. bifera

Gore describes its flowers as middle-sized, double, flesh-coloured.  George Don lists Rosa alba bifera in his General System of Gardening and Botany, in the section on Damask, Centifolia and Gallica roses, in a sub-section headed ‘Garden roses belonging to some of the species of the present section’, unfortunately no description is given.  Rosa alba bifera was described by Gore as a Double Hybrid Rose of Damask origin, a categorisation consistent with Don.