Old+Fashioned+Roses

Type in the content of your page here **__Old / Heritage Roses __** J **Old or Ancient **When I say old you can also include ancient roses when is a rose old or ancient. Roses were carbon dated in the rocks of the Colorado Hills (USA) 35 million years ago well before man. The Chinese first cultivated roses 5,000 years ago and they also played a major part in Ancient Greek, Egypt and Roman cultures
 * Old are** are the wild roses grown in the Northern Hemisphere throughout Europe to the banks of theMediterranean J **Division by the experts on what date old roses stopped and modern roses started varies, **but some say all roses that were cultivated in Europe before the 1800, others maintain it was before 1867 when Hybrid Teas’ were officially named. J **I used to think Heritage Roses **. were the ones that only came from old England around the early days of Australian settlement. In fact they are old roses that are still very popular with many growers and cultivars including the tea-scented China roses, in France one man stands out beyond many others Mons Descement , with his numerous seedlings developed over dozens of years, produced methodically, his wonderful results , his acute observations, as well as more than two hundred interesting varieties are due to him , in 1814-1815 he had to escape France because of his hertitage (Russia) after that little is known . Empress Josephine by Dupont formed the famous collection of Malmaison, was a keen rose lover encouraged her people to grow and cultivate roses from the old roses gallicas,damasks,albas and centifolias which were obtained throughout the Continent and even after her death 29th May 1814, French hybridist continued with great success in Hermitage roses . Another country that deserves a mention is Holland who were the first to propagate Roses by seed. They particularly favoured the Gallicas. It,s no wonder they at one stage cornered the Rose market.


 * Researched:** Phillip Neal
 * Ref: ** Brent C. Dickerson 1992 __The Old Rose Advisor__ Timber Press, Portland ,Oregon
 * Edit: ** 22/04/2010 S. Stevens