'Sir Garnet Wolseley' rose photos

The Floral Magazine, new ser. No. 40 (April 1975) Plate 157 Sir Garnet Wolseley This new seedling, Hybrid Perpetual Rose, was raised, and is now being sent out by Messrs. Cranston and Mayo's of the King's Acre Nurseries, near Hereford. It was awarded a first-class certificate by the Royal Horticultural Society at the Grand National Rose Show July 1st, 1874; and it secured a similar award at the Oxford Rose Show on June 25th of the same year. As will be seen from our Plate, the individual flowers are very large, full, and perfectly formed, standing out bold and erect from the foliage; the habit is strong and vigorous, and the plants produce flowers at every shoot; the colour is the richest vermilion, shaded with bright carmine, and this tint is well retained throughout. We are informed by Messrs. Cranton and Mayo's that the new Rose, "Sir Garnet Wolseley," was a seedling raised from Prince Camille de Rohan. Another new Hybrid Perpetual Rose, of great merit, now being sent out by the same firm is Cranston's "Crimson Bedder," a rose which is said to surpass every other variety for brilliancy of colour and continuous blooming. Its habit of growth is moderate, with short-jointed shoots, which produce a mass of flowers all over the bed from June to November. This plant, introduced as a bedding-roe only, is scarlet and crimson in colour, with clean glossy foliage, free from mildew. IT may be well to mention here Cranston's climbing Perpetual Rose, sent out under the name of "Climbing Jules Margottin," a sport from "Jules Margottin," with flowers exactly similar to its parent; a free and vigorous climbing habit, not in a robust form, but branching as freely as an evergreen climbing rose. This latter is a great acquisition as a free-growing, perpetual climbing rose.