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Alexander Hill Grey.  One of the great favourites early in this century among Australian gardeners, very floriferous, with richly fragrant creamy yellow flowers.

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Celine Forestier was released by Trouillard in 1842 and is one of the most exquisite of all the old Tea Noisettes.  Tight buds borne singly or in small clusters open to exquisite double creamy pale gold quartered blooms with button eye and an intense and delicious spicy Tea fragrance.  It is vey remontant once established which it does surely but slowly to eventually become a vigorous and tough climber.  It is said to have arisen from a cross between ‘Lamarque’ and ‘Desprez a Fleur Jaune’. 

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From the same magic year comes another exquisite Tea-Noisette Desprez a Fleur Jaune of the same parentage as ‘Lamarque’.  It needs the gentler climate of Australia, the southern United States and the Mediterranian region to show this superb Noisette at her best and most vigorous.  The flowers borne singly and in small clusters open from pink and apricot buds to reveal large, very double, flat silky-textured blooms that are creamy lemon often flushed with apricot pink, peach and yellow.  The autumnal blooms are often the most exquisite of all.  They have a powerful and delicious fruity tea fragrance that equals the beauty of the flower.  It has few prickles, is well clothed with light green foliage and one could not wish for anything more beautiful than this rose in full flower.  Jack Harkness describes the flower as giving “the impression of soaking up the sun’s warmth and paying it back in a sleepy scent”.   In his Manual of Roses (1846) Prince wrote “It is so powerfully fragrant that one plant will perfume a large garden in the cool weather of autumn”.  This rose was sold as ‘Jaune Desprez’ and ‘Noisette Desprez’. 

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Lady Plymouth.  A magnificent Tea rose of the colour of summer cream mixing to blush pink, sweet but slight scent.

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‘Madame Bravy’ (‘Danzille’,  ‘Alba Rosea’,  ‘Mme. de Serfot’, (sic)  ‘Mme. Denis’,  ‘Josephine Meltot’) (1846).   This was a famous Tea bred by Guillot with globular flowers in which the outer petals were somewhat short and the inner petals short and folded.   The colour is creamy white delicately blushed with rosy pink and has that glistening effect so beautiful too in ‘Duchesse de Brabant’.   This rose was also famous as a parent of the first Hybrid Tea ‘La France’

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‘Penelope’. A very elegant Tea rose ...... A climbing form also exists.

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Solfaterre (1843) was a seedling of ‘Lamarque’ and favours the Tea side of its ancestry. It belongs among the climbing Tea Roses in spirit, if not in strict definition. This graceful rose has sulphur yellow, very large double flowers of delicious fragrance. Like most of the ‘primrose way’ roses it found its Shangrila in Australia and in other warm climes such as the Azores, the Canary Islands, the Mediterranean and southern U.S.A., in all of which places it is a magnificent rose.