Blooming Roses A variety

 Timeless Red Rose

Belinda's Dream  1992 antique	Beauty of Rosemarer  1903 antique tea rose	Red American  Beauty
Ghislaine de Felligonde  1916 antique climbing	Buff Beauty 1934  antique hybrid musk	Champney's Pink  1811 Antique cluster
Caldwell Pink  Climbing antique	Conrad Ferdinand Mayer  l899 antique	Celine Forester  1858 antique
Dame de Coveur  1958 antique	Gloria de Dijon  hybrid tea climber	Amillaga (antique)  hybrid perpetual

A History Of Roses

Roses have been cultivated since early times in history , but little is know of their ancestry.

The Minoans of the Middle Minoan period of Knossos in Crete knew roses. One was found on a frescoe from l600 BC. The rose has six petals. This could have been the rose R.X.richardie, which was the rose of Etheopian churches long known as R.Sancta. Thought to be a hybrid of R.gallica. Roses growing wild in Crete today are mostly forms of Carina the dog rose. Some Damask rose references to roses and vines wre found in Sir Leanord Woolley 's excavations at the UR of Clades in the Euphrates Tigris valleys around 2648 to 2630 BC. They were brought back by King Sargon who was king during this same time period.

Some Damask rose remains were found in egyptian tombs during the period between second and fifth century BC. Autumn Damask roses in the tenth century BC grew on the island of Jamos and were used in the cult of Aphrodite, the rose was sweetly scented and had 60 petals.

Alba roses were popular by great Renaissance painters. The cabbage roses-Centifolia arose around the sixteenth century from a Damask crossed with an Alba. Moss roses were used largely in dutch flower pieces. They had at least a hundred petals. They arived in Holland around the eighteenth century.

The first of China roses arrived in 1789. There is a doubtful record of a China rose grown by Philip Miller in Chelsea Physic Garden as early as 1752, "Slaters" Crimson China and "Parsons" Pink China ,it was a dark red shrub.

The first Tea roses in 1833 were a combination of Humes blush China with the early Bourbons. The first was called Adam and it is no longer grown.

The hybrid perpetuals were grown in England and France during the last century.Their characteristics are like the Bourbons.

The earliest ramblers have the influence of two far east species. Multiflora in the Polyantha roses and then through the floribundas and wichuraiana in the ramblers. The white wild single form reached Europe in l862.

In l910 in Denmark Poulsen crossed a dwarf Polyanthos with hybrid teas to produce hybrid Polyanthas; Else Poulten pink, and Kersten Poulten.

Modern roses are mostly hybrid tea and floribunda, and the most popular . the line between floribunda and shrub has become indistinctive due to much interbreeding.

From before the earliest time in BC. to the present roses have been developing into different species. What roses will be developed in the future with our technology could be very impressive.

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