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'Léonie Lamesch' rose Reviews & Comments
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This cultivar is listed as triploid in the paper 'Pollen diameter and guard cell length as predictors of ploidy in diverse rose cultivars, species, and breeding lines'
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The rose „Kleiner Alfred“ (Little Alfred) was named after Peter and Leonie‘s first son. It seems a little bit strange to me, that Peter Lambert named a rose after his bride, bred with a rose introduced some years later, named after his baby.
I prefer the first parents as reported in Journal des Roses 1899, Aglaia X (Mignonette x Sh. Hibberd)
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It seems more logical. I have changed the pollen parent from 'Kleiner Alfred' 1904 to (Mignonette 1875 x Shirley Hibberd 1874).
Thank you Dorothea.
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What an unappealing name for such a lovely rose
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It was named for the girl the breeder later married. I'd say it wins hands down over some modern names which are downright tacky.
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#7 of 7 posted
12 DEC 17 by
 jedmar
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Léonie and Eugènie were daughters of Jean-Baptiste Lamesch, who had established a rose nursery in Dommeldingen, Luxembourg. So, it is another of those rose Family stories.
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Lambert raised and named the rose in 1899. He named one Leonie Lamesch, and a second, Eugenie Lamesch. Two years later, he married Leonie.
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They went to St Petersburg for their honeymoon, and were invited by the Tsar to attend a court ball at The Hermitage, which was decorated with Lambert-bred roses. That's quite a compliment!
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What a marvelous continuation of the story, Margaret! Thank you!
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Research by a Heritage Roses in Aus member, who wrote a series on major 19th century rose breeders for our Journal. And I've just found it among the References! I should learn to look there first.
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(Sheepishly) I guess I should, too!
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1916 The Rose Annual
p109 Walter Easlea. Dwarf Polyantha Roses.
...and I have seen such a sort as Leonie Lamesch growing in an Essex garden 6-ft to 7-ft high.
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