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    The world’s great roses

    Jul 14, 2020 4 minutes

    MODERN ROSE HISTORY PART 1

    THE story of the modern rose begins in about 1867, when Jean-Baptiste Guillot, a French rose breeder, sent out a new rose under the name ‘La France’. He listed it as a tea rose because it had appeared in a batch of seedlings he had raised from tea-rose seed, but it differed in several notable respects from existing tea roses and has since been shown to be the hybrid probably the result of an accidental mating between one of Guillot’s tea-rose seed parents and a hybrid perpetual rose.

    To understand the significance of ‘La France’, one must know something about its predecessors. Hybrid perpetual roses had large, shapely, fully double

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