Reporting elsewhere on the progress in my garden of 'Gloire Lyonnaise' (which was a "found" rose for us), I ran across this descriptive material from the 1898 catalog of Shepherd's Gardens . . . A wonderful early Ventura County Nursery:

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HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSES.

Glorie [sic] Lyonnaise.

One of the most satisfactory of all the hardy roses, of robust habit, throwing up strong canes, covered with rich, healthy foliage; flowers large, white, tinted yellow.

The buds and fully opened roses are alike beautiful. It is superb and sure to give satisfaction. Strong young roses, 25 cts.; large 50 cts.

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Don't we wish we could buy roses, now, for 25 cts??

We collected this rose on a grave in a Northern California cemetery. It was spectacular there.

Here, it has taken a couple of years to begin to "get its act together" but now I begin to remember why I fell in love.

(Sadly, no longer widely available in the U.S.)

Though we collected it in Monterey County, it's nice to know that it was known and loved in Ventura County (where I live) more than a century ago.

We found it here:

This spring, it's really started to grow nicely.

I particularly like its lovely foliage, and elaborate sepals

3-19-22