ROSA EGLANTERIA x PUNICEA 
planted the year of their introduction and allowed to develop un- 
restrained, now present a wonderfully beautiful sight at flowering time 
as well as later in the year when the flowers are succeeded by brilliant 
scarlet fruit. 
The Lady Penzance Rose is mentioned in the Gardeners Chronicle 
for May, 1891, as a new hybrid obtained by Lord Penzance from a 
cross between the Sweet Briar and the Austrian Briar. In the same 
year Cr^pin contributed to the Journal des Roses a note in which he 
proposed to give the new hybrid the name of Rose Penzance as being 
more practical than the full combination ( Rosa rubiginosa x hitea 
punicea). He remarks that the characters are exactly what might be 
expected from a cross between the two parents ; it has the aromatic 
leaves of the Sweet Briar and its pink petals are suffused with the 
yellow hue of the Austrian Briar. He also describes it in the Bulletin 
de la Societe Royale de Botanique de Belgique under the name of Rosa 
lutea x rubiginosa. 
All Lord Penzance’s Sweet Briar hybrids were sent out by 
Messrs. Keynes Williams, and such was the popularity of the new 
Roses that the nursery-garden at Salisbury soon became a centre of 
pilgrimage for rosarians. 
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