![]() ![]() Nancy Steen wrote that several of the branches on her 'York and Lancaster' reverted to 'Trigintepetala', and 'York and Lancaster' is believed to be a sport of Rosa x damascena 'Trigintepetala', which has been named 'Kazanlik' or 'Professeur Emile Perrot' the rose that is used today for attar in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Iran. The smell thereof is of a weake Damask rose scent." Yet I observed that the longer it abideth blowen open in the sun, the paler and fewer stripes, markes and spots will be seene in it Or marks at all as nature listeth to play with varieties in this as other flowers. "the one half of it sometimes of a pale whitish colour, and the other half of a paler damask colour than the ordinary (Damask) this happeneth so many times and sometimes also theįlower has divers stripes and marks on it, as one leafe white or striped with white, the other half blush or striped with blush, sometimes also all striped or spotted over, and at other times no stripes John Parkinson firstĭescribed the rose under the name of 'York and Lancaster' in his Paradisi in Sole Paradisus of 1629: 'York and Lancaster' displays several of these variations on one plant. Mike Lowe once told me that the Damask roses can be described as variations of a theme. Henry Nicholson Ellacombe, In a Gloustershire Garden It is a handsome rose, comparitevely modern, and is the Rosa Mundi of the Botanical Magazine, t, 1794." In the other sort the petals are a rich crimson, flaked with white 'nor red not white but stolen of both' of Shakespeare, and it is the R. This is without doubt the 'roses damasked, red and white,' the rose The petals are sometimes white and sometimes pink, and sometimes white and pink in the same flower. "A second favourite double, or semi-double, rose is the York and Lancaster, of which there are two kinds one a very old rose, in which X damascena versicolor, York and Lancaster ![]() ![]() Rosa Damascena Variegata, Rosier d'York et de Lancasterrelated pages: redouté's damasks and biferas Rosa Damascena Variegata, Rosier d'York et de Lancaster ![]()
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