Yellow Teas, 1873
Excerpted from "Yellow Roses" in The Floral World and Garden Guide, June 1873, pp.165-7:
It will be of some service to the amateur, perhaps, if we run through the list of yellow teas in alphabetical order, and make such remarks on the more important of them as appear necessary. Adrienne Christophle, a strong grower, confusedly coloured yellow, copper, and peach, but sometimes comes pure yellow; first-rate. Canary, a lovely rose, shamefully thrust out of trade catalogues of late; a weak grower, the flowers perfect when in bud, but loose when open, pale yellow. Comte Taverna, pale yellow, fine form; a strong grower, first-rate. Comtesse de Brossard, a strong grower, the flowers rather thin, the colour pale clear yellow. Coquette de Lyon, a strong grower, the flowers small, double, canary yellow; good. Devoniensis, not yellow enough to be classed (in this class) with yellow roses, but included in the list just to show that we have heard of it. Enfant de Lyon, a weak grower, flowers large, pale yellow; makes a fine pot-plant. Eliza Sauvage, a moderate grower, very tender in constitution, pale yellow with orange centre; makes a lovely pot-plant, but for the open wall or border surpassed by Comte Taverna.
Gloire de Dijon, too well known to need a character, but it is proper to observe that as it has a fine constitution and seeds freely, it is well adapted to breed from, and probably the pollen of Marechal Niel is the best that can be found to fertilize it.
Isabella Sprunt, a strong grower, a fine habit, a most valuable pot-rose, forces well, flowers well formed, colour sulphur-yellow. Jean Pernet, a vigorous grower, clear yellow, good. La Boule d'Or, a strong grower, well adapted for a rafter or pillar in the rose-house, as it flowers freely; in colour it is not as its name implies, a ball or bowl of gold, for it is neither compact in make nor of a good yellow colour; but it flowers most profusely, and we must pronounce it a good variety to grow but not good enough to breed from. Louise de Savoie, a strong grower, fine in form and substance, clear, pale yellow, and deliciously scented; makes a fine pot-plant. Mdlle. Cecile Berthod, a strong grower, the flowers large and full, colour sulphur-yellow, a superb pot-rose, and one of the best of its class for forcing. Mdlle. Adele Jongaut, a moderate grower, tender, makes a nice bush, flowers thin, lemon-yellow. Madame Ducher, a strong grower, flowers large and handsome, clear yellow, first-rate for pots or pillars. Madame Falcot is a famous rose, more double and deeper in the apricot tint than Safrano, which acquires a tint of buff when full out; neither of them is yellow enough to rank among the yellow roses. Madame Lartay is shaded with salmon, the flower loose, the plant very tender. Madame William is like Eliza Sauvage, and as good, the plant very dwarf, and the most tender of all the roses; it is, moreover, reluctant to flower, but the few flowers it offers are beautiful in form, pale yellow with orange centre; for a pollen rose this would probably be found of service to the raiser of new varieties. Narcisse is a moderate grower, quite hardy at Stoke Newington, makes a good standard, the flowers large, rather thin, delicate pale yellow; good. Niphetos is a strong grower and a capital type for a seeding rose; the flowers are large, full, and vary from pure white to pale yellow.
Perle de Lyon is a strong grower with handsome dark foliage, hardier than most, the flowers are large, full, and stout, varying in colour from apricot to deep yellow; a glorious golden rose. Reine des Pays Bas is a pillar or wall rose, as it makes long rods that flower profusely, and it may be grown as a standard or bush; the flowers are moderately full, the colour pale sulphur. Perfection de Montplaisir is a weak grower, forces well; the flowers come in plenty, they are smallish, the form good, colour canary-yellow. Semele is a fine variety, too tender for the open ground; the flowers are dashed with yellow, with shades of salmon and buff. Vicomtesse de Cazes is another of the famous teas, a moderate grower, but strong enough to make a good standard, somewhat hardy, and one of the freest to flower in all this family; the flowers are large, full of stout petals, the colour coppery-yellow shading to gold-yellow at the edges.
Here we must halt for the present, and we may do so without disadvantage to the subject, because the cultivation of Marechal Niel was admirably treated by Mr. Gordon last month. Our portrait of Perle de Lyon will tell its own tale; the lovers of tea roses will know by these presents that amongst the newest of the new roses there is one more valuable addition to the golden teas. S. H.
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From The Floral Magazine, 1869, plate 454.
Tea-Rose — Mademoiselle Adrienne Christophle.
The additions made the last two or three years to our tea- scented roses, bid fair to drive some of the older varieties out of cultivation; many of them were very delicate in habit, and the flowers very flimsy and loose, whereas we are now getting stout-petalled flowers of the same colours, and with good habit of growth. We shall not care soon to have to humour such varieties as Madame William or Elise Sauvage, when we can get such flowers as Madame Margotiin, or the very beautiful variety figured in our plate, and so admirably rendered by our artist.
Reading the above, I expect that most yellow Teas tended to be too tender for many European/ English gardeners to grow successfully. No doubt, their jaws would have dropped to read of a 10' tall x 33' wide 'Eliza Sauvage' in conditions that really suited her.
Virginia
- 6 years agolast modified: 6 years ago
Christopher wrote: "I think that many were similar enough from a bloom perspective that the "better plants" were favored instead."
Yes, of course. But "better" is in the eye of the beholder. The plants that were considered improvements were yellower, happier in greenhouse conditions and/or even hardy enough to be grown outdoors. The original post above was an excerpt from a longer article about yellow roses... I just excerpted the bit about the Teas, since it was easy to do so, and I figured it would be of interest. But earlier in the article, there were mentions of Gloire de Dijon and Maréchal Niel being the most useful yellow roses for the garden. Those roses are still around, and I suspect would be more widely grown now than they are if half as many rosomanes were determined to grow them well...
"Better" also had to do with fashion. Flimsy petals on nodding blooms were becoming less attractive than stout-petaled flowers help upright on firm peduncles. This preference persists, and I see posters to this forum from gardeners who don't like nodding blooms.
I think it's amusing how some of these roses were included or excluded. 'Niphetos' (the 3rd illustration in the original post) is not my idea of a yellow rose, but 'Mme Falcot' and 'Safrano' are as yellow- or more so- than others that were included:
- 6 years agolast modified: 6 years ago
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