Hi there tedhort, Excellent! I googled for the name you gave, and yes - that's the one :) Thank you so much for your help! Now I know how NOT to kill it lol :D Shanook.

Some mail-order nurseries have that reputation, most do not. But that wouldn't happen for very long in a wholesale to retail situation. A retail store's wholesale vendor has a on going relationship to the store. They will order week to week, and often a live rep is going to take the order. If a wholesale nursery were to pull that kind of stuff the stores will catch on pretty quick, and if it's not rectified that vendor will be dropped very quickly. Sales contracts are negotiated yearly, and there is always someone else available who won't lie. And anyway if my hunch about this wholesale vendor is correct, they are a very reputable company that would not pull that on purpose. What does happen very often is that the labor hired to put those tags on are not always as vigilant about details as they could be. Minimum wage tends to get you that amount of quality control. Plus, it's their managers responsibility to make sure the tags and the block of plants being tagged are correct. But stuff happens; Workers are sent to the wrong greenhouse, codes sometimes can get printed onto the wrong tag, things like that. In a busy, busy spring/summer shipping season these mistakes often don't come to light until quite a while afterward. Hard to track down what customer bought which trees at that point. It's actually amazing it doesn't happen more often that it does. Most plants are tagged correctly, but yeah, stuff happens. Usually not on purpose.

K S.. I'm going to put a damper on things here and claim that it's impossible to be definitive as to which rose that is... too little is known about it.. ... If I may make a few suggestions though as to which direction to look in.. first, it's important I think to move away from any rose bred in the U.S... we're talking about an obscure part of NW France, possibly during the 1930's or so, therefore we have to imagine ourselves at that time, and what was available locally... this rose might simply have been obtained at some local market place, even unnamed... this is before the European Union where plants can be shifted around... and it's unlikely to be a rose bred anywhere outside of France.. ...Politics may also play a part here... during WW2 the Loire was occupied by the Germans... France and Germany never had friendly relations until the formation of the E.U.... would a French person plant a rose say bred in Germany at those times? like a Kordes?... I'm not sure they would... alternatively, it might even have been planted by a German rose lover.. we can imagine all sorts of things where nothing certain is known... ..which might rule out my first inclination which was the Kordes rose 'Sympathie' which I've grown, and it has that very lanky growth habit, although tends to bloom in more clusters.. but here's a HMF link.. but this rose is a 1960's. .bred. hnf ..with this in mind, I think it would be better to look for a French bred rose, perhaps from the 1950's as that rose has that time look about it... and you say it was used for vacations at that time.. ..Two French bred roses of the time.. 'Record' [aka Décor].. by Charles Mallerin and 'Rouge Meilland'.. both climbing red roses... either of these could be possibilities, but we don't know enough about them to check.. few photos available.. ...so you see the difficulties?... best of luck though with your research...

Russelia equisitiformis. Could be a cultivar.