There are two roses that you need to know:
Rosa multiflora ( seed spread by birds all over TN)
Dr. Huey (rootstock left over from grafted roses in which the desirable rose died)
Both of these are common in Tennessee graveyards (and TN homes).
Get to know www.helpmefind.com to look up rose pictures. The google image search is also excellent for rose pictures.
And then get to know the Heritage Rose Foundation website. I've got photos of some of my found roses there.

Here is a link that might be useful: HRF found rose photos threads (and photos)

Hi....
Did you see my new post on old roses carved in stone? I explained how my husband and I search out old cemeteries to take a small cutting of old roses to propagate so we can save them from being lost. It is important to us that we return every year to care for the "mother plant" so they she doesn't succumb to the ravages of time and neglect. I urge anyone who takes cuttings to do so gently and do not take more than one or two and if possible, followup on the mother plant. We consider it our personal mission to save as many of these treasures from becoming lost forever as we can and can't wait until spring comes so we can get back out there.
We don't find roses in every cemetery....in fact, we very seldom find any since most of the old cemeteries are small and not tended to. Mostly we just check out the interesting tombstones and find roses etched in stone more than we find live ones. The well-maintained perpetual care
cemeteries rarely hold any old roses, just plastic ones!

Here are a few photos of the many wonderful old roses we have found....these are the "babies" of the original plant which are now growing in our garden and are dearly loved.
Celeste

Pink Moss rose
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Apothecary rose (gallica)

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Single White Scotch rose
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Centifolia
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Unknown, very fragrant

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double white Scotch

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gravestones from where we found double white Scotch

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Lilac-pink Scotch rose
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Here's the one jewel I've discovered, a suckering, thicket forming once bloomer that has been assigned the study name, "Vienna Cemetery Wine." I've been told that it's probably a hybrid china.

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Thanks Ann, I put the helpmefind on my favorites list. Hopefully I have found more than nusiance roses! I appreciate the heads up so I'll know what to look for. find the graves just a intersting as the roses. If I make some good finds I plan to care for them as I live relatively closeby to all my finds. thanks for all the pics! Keep them coming y'all!

I don't know what sorts of rootstock roses are commonly found in your area. Out here in CA, we often find Manetti, Fortuniana, and Gloire des Rosomanes. Oh, and sometimes de la Grifferaie.
There may be different rootstock roses in your area.

We also find Autumn Damask everywhere:
http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/pl.php?n=451&tab=1

as well as 'Mme. Plantier'
http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/pl.php?n=2114
This one could be taken for 'Mme. Hardy,' but the foliage is really unique, once you know it.

and a ubiquitous Hybrid China studynamed "Red Runaround," which REALLY does.
http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/pl.php?n=51163&tab=1

Along with those, Mlle. Cecile Brunner and Perle d'Or.
In our areas, many Tea Roses, of course.

Jeri

Here's a list of some names. Those with pictures have the code P.

Here is a link that might be useful: Found roses at HMF

"as well as 'Mme. Plantier' "

I was reading "Climbing Roses of the World" by Charles Quest-Ritson last night. He wrote that Madame Plantier was used as a rootstock in Florida in the nineteenth century. (pg. 69) I had never heard this before.

Connie

I got mine at Vintage where it was mistakenly beiing sold as Gloire des Mousseux. It has yet to be identified.
Seems to be a gallica,suckers like a bandit, smells bodaciously, and blooms once from April to the beginning of July--more blooms than most roses make in a year.
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He wrote that Madame Plantier was used as a rootstock in Florida in the nineteenth century

*** It may have been so used here, as well. But it is also true that it was promoted as a superb choice for cemetery plantings. And if you've ever seen it in full bloom, you'd know why. Probably because of the Noisette influence, it actually blooms well in my mild climate.
I love it.
But then, I also cherish a montrous Fortuniana, collected from a NoCal cemetery, and for several years, I determinedly cherished not one, but TWO rootstock Odoratas.

Jeri

I tried to find the ID of this rose for some time. It grows in NoCal - I am obsessed with this beauty, unfortunately the photo is not of the best quality.

Luanne, your rose looks a LOT like mine! Where did you find it? It has the quilted matte foliage, the same color (given photo qualities), the form and number of petals! Let's compare notes!

"Anonymous" in NoCal
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Most of my found roses are from Arizona.

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Found at a 100+ year old ranch house in Patagonia.

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Not found really, just one from a friend's garden -- Pack rats ate the label off. We think it is Shailer's Provence.

I also have a magenta cupped rose from the same Patagonia garden, and a rose I found blooming near the old gold mining camp of Goodwin Creek (near Prescott).

I found this unknown centifolia here on the grounds of the Nat'l Arboretum while scouting around for lost roses. It is a survivor, contracting only spring mildew in the greenhouse; the plants seem virtually immune to blackspot, which explains why they managed to persist here for so long. The plants didn't manage to bloom where they were growing because of the poor conditions; I found them in July with only blasted buds hanging on. I first thought they might be the damask 'Bella Donna' because it is similar, and commonly found here, but something about the foliage and bloom still seemed naggingly centifolia-like and I went searching for something of that class that might fit its description. From that search, I believe there is a possibility it is the cultivar 'Reine de Saxe', but I'd be open to other suggestions. The habit is quite vigorous and somewhat lax without pruning, the bloom period seems to be exceptionally long for an OGR in this hot climate, and the fragrance is absolutely divine (and the buds have a lovely balsam aroma when touched). Sorry for the poor photograph - it was taken with my cell phone and emailed home. I'll try to take better pictures with a real camera this year :)

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Wow, Stephan. I am in love with your centifolia. Hope one day I will grow this one.
Olga

Olga, I'm really glad you like it! I'm going to do my best begging to get it planted in a good spot in the rose garden this spring, and hopefully it will work its way quickly into commerce if it proves itself better than many of the other OGRs here (and I think it will). It's one I'd love to grow myself.

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This has been an absolutely wonderful thread with beautiful and interesting pictures. It gives me such a feeling of how historic roses are and somehow connects me to those other times and people (such as the comment about the rose of the poster's grandmother) in a poignant way.

Ingrid