Help with ID Old Garden Rose # 2 A White One

7 years ago

Now here is a second one that is just starting to open. White with a golden center, fragrant, once blooming, The buds have three very mossy sepals. The flower does resemble Alba maxima but buds are more "mossy" and leaves perhaps not as greyish as Alba m. Tho note the newer growth leaves are slightly more yellow green than the older leaves which I would call more blue green than grey. I call it Rita Corrigan because she said her ancestors from Ireland brought it over and that would have been over a hundred years ago. I had thought it was Mme Hardy or Mme Plantier but there is no quartering at all, the petals are arranged cup like as it opens and there's that fluffy gold center...

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Embothrium
7 years ago
Some kind of white moss rose.
AquaEyes 7a NJ
7 years ago
It's not a Moss. My guess is 'L'Ingenue'.

:-)

~Christopher
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7 years ago
It is most certainly a Damask in much the same style as 'Mme. Hardy', but it is clearly not 'Mme. Hardy'. I am not familiar with 'L'Ingenue', but Christopher's guess seems like a reasonable one.
AquaEyes 7a NJ
7 years ago
Thanks for the approval, Paul.

:-)

I'm not a genius at all -- the only reason that rose was in my head was because it's one of the rare things Rose Fire carries, and which I'm waiting to become available again. While it's lumped with the Gallicas, it's most likely something along the lines of Vibert's Hybrid Gallicas -- the result of Centifolia/Gallica crosses. And that's why you see those Damask-y sepals, since they came from Centifolias, which inherited them from Damasks.

:-)

~Christopher
Mary Wareham
Original Author
7 years ago
Thank you ALL immensely! This is wonderful information. I did read that Vibert traveled widely throughout all of Europe so I'd suppose his L'ingenue' and other roses could have found their way to rural Ireland among the rural poorer classes which I'm assuming...could be wrong...this Corrigan family was...

I am going on with more roses to ID but will post each as a new one. I thank you all again...

Mary Clare