The Hybrid China Rose

The Hybrid China Rose
The Hybrid China Rose has arisen from various crosses among the French, Provence and other summer kinds, with the China, Noissette and Bourbon Roses.

For along time the various of this class were our most beautiful and cherished roses but like nearly all of the summer sorts, they are outshone and outlasted by various Remontants.

In this connection it may be remarked that about one-fourth of the roses which are sent out as Hybrid Perpetuals should properly be placed among the Hybrid Chinas, for the flowers which they produced autumn are the exception and not the rule.

A Hybrid China which blooms more than once during the season; if this classification were carried out, we should to-day ne growing many more Hybrid Chinas and many less Hybrid Perpetuals.

On account of the diverse parentage of the varieties in this group, coming from so many different classes, there is great dissimilarity in the appearance of the different sorts, but most of them are rapid growers, with long, flexible shoots; smooth, luxuriant foliage; large, rather numerous, thorn; globular or cup-shaped flowers, which are freely produced in their season.

Those of vigorous growth, and most of then are such , require but little pruning.
The Hybrid China Rose

Watering the Roses

Watering the Roses
Roses appreciate a regular supply of water. If Mother nature doesn’t supply at least an inch of rain per week while your roses are actively growing, you need to supply supplemental water if you want your roses to thrive.

In hot, dry climates, of course, your roses will need more water, while they can get with less in cooler, more humid areas.

As a rule of thumb, that translates into 4 to 5 gallons of water per plant per week. Its better to apply supplemental water in one or two deep soakings per week than give daily spritzes.

Drip irrigation systems and soaker hoses are two ways to deliver water right to the soil and minimizes water loses to evaporation.

This approach also helps to keep the leaves dry, which discourages the development of some diseases.

Overhead sprinkling can work fine too, but it’s generally best to do this in the morning so the foliage can dry quickly.
Watering the Roses

Old Garden Roses from Europe

Old Garden Roses from Europe
There are 15 classes Old Garden Roses, plus two miscellaneous categories for species hybrids and those roses hat just don’t fit anywhere else.

Accordingly that roses were developed or known before 1867. Five of this classes are subdivided into climbing and non-climbing types.

Four classes of Old Garden Roses include the old European garden roses, the romantic roses pictures in antique oil paintings - the albas, damasks, gallicas and centifolia roses.

A fifth class is the family of moss roses. Although their origin is not completely known, most rosarians believe that these roses sprang naturally from both a centifolia and damasks roses.

These roses are almost all once –flowering. Within these five classes only one type of damask rose and a very few of the moss roses flower again after first bloom in late spring or early summer.
Old Garden Roses from Europe

The History of The Rose

The History of The Rose
Almost from time immemorial the rose has been known. It is a native of nearly every country in the world except, perhaps, Australia and parts of the actual tropics.

We hear of it in the Scriptures when the Prophet Isaiah tells us “the wilderness shall blossom like a rose.” Again, in the Song of Songs, the Church is compared to the Rose of Sharon and in the Apocrypha the Son of Sirach compares wisdom to a rose plant in Jericho.

It is only fair to mention here that there are grave doubts as to whether the Rose of Sharon was really the rose as we know it, and not an entirely different species of plant.

Mention is frequently made of the rose in the Classics and what is considered by far the oldest record of it is that in the poems by the Greek poetess Sappho, who was in existence about 600 BC.

One portion of the poems said:

“Would Jove appoint some flower to reign
In matchless beauty on the plain
The rose (mankind will all agree)
The Rose the Queen of Flowers should be”

The rose is also mentioned in Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey. It was a flower greatly prized by the Romans, who used it as a decoration at their feasts.

The National Rose Society gives 1596 as the date on which its known that Centifolia Rose also the Moss and Austrian Copper and Yellow were grown, progress was, however, slow from then, until in 1815 Monsieur Vibert founded his great nursery in France.

In 1829 Monsieur Desportes issued a catalogue of some 2600 varieties.

Rose growing at this period was made very fashionable in France owing to the Empress Eugenie’s great love of the flower, of which she endeavored to collect all existing varieties for her private garden at Malmaison.

Since those days the progress of rose-growing has steadily advanced both in France and other countries, so that now the lists of varieties run literally into thousands and the raisers too of choice specimens, amateur and professional, not only of this country but of France, Germany, and many other lands, would in themselves make a very formidable list.
The History of The Rose