84— STANWELL PERPETUAL 
This beautiful Rose has been for more than a century one of the 
greatest charms of our English gardens. In all ways it is good, in 
colour, fragrance, and habit. Never capricious, it will grow and thrive 
year after year, producing its beautiful flowers in profusion, shedding 
its delicious fragrance all around, and continuing in flower long after 
the other Scotch Roses are over. It flourishes even in poor soil, 
requires no attention, and will produce flowers even in the shade, 
although it undoubtedly prefers a sunny, open situation and so placed 
will attain to extreme old age and still preserve all its charms. 
Simon and Cochet^ orive Robert Brown of Perth as the oriorinal 
raiser of this Rose, but they assign no date. Miss Lawrance has an 
excellent drawing of it under its name Stanwell Perpetual^ Mr. 
Sabine considered the plate too richly coloured, but it has been 
observed that when the wood has been well ripened during the 
previous season the delicate blush pink of the flowers is generally of 
a deeper shade the following summer. This is more especially the 
case in France. In the Hortvs Keivensis of i8i i Miss Lawrance’s 
plate is quoted under Rosa spinosisshna as “ Double Scotch Rose.” 
The Rose is also figured by Andrews, but though he gives two plates 
(Nos. 125 and 126), either of which would do very well for Stanwell 
PerpetiLal, the drawings are not sufficiently accurate to enable us to 
decide. His Rosa spmosissima incarnata (plate No. 126) was brought 
by Mr. Grace from Rouen, where it had the reputation of flowering 
all the year round. Andrews found it in flower in October in the 
Hammersmith nursery under the name of Lees Eternal, and he 
mentions that it flowers much later than other Scotch Roses. These 
Scotch Roses and their hybrids were essentially British in their origin 
and development, and as they never found the same favour in France, 
it is not surprising to find that they were ignored by RedouH. His 
drawings of Roses are so beautiful in colouring and so delicate in 
delineation, that it is much to be regretted that he did not leave us 
any drawings of the Double Scotch Roses ; Stanwell Perpetual in 
particular would have been a charming subject for his brush. 
* Nomenclatitre de tons ies Noms des Roses, p. 167 (1899). 
2 Roses, t. 63 (1799). 
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