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California sea of roses
California sea of roses










california sea of roses

This form of the so-called Sweetheart Rose, one of the four surviving California roses from the 19 th century, remains popular today. Nearly thornless, with light pink flowers, this plant exhibits clusters of small, exquisitely shaped blossoms that exude a sweet scent. Hosp discovered an unusually long wand of flowers that had sported from one of his many shrubs, and introduced ‘Climbing Cecile Brunner’ to the public in 1894. On his own estate, Hosp grew many ‘Cecile Brunner’ polyantha roses. In 1890, he established a nursery and landscaping business in Riverside. Hosp arrived from Germany and settled first in Ohio before moving to California in 1888. It’s a treasure in my garden.Īnother California rose pioneer, Franz B. ‘Rainbow’, on the other hand, can still be purchased from five or six nurseries in the United States. Sievers went on to produce ‘Improved Rainbow’, but apparently the improvement was not obvious, for after several years it vanished from the market. His 1886 catalog listed what Sievers considered the best 25 rose varieties available, most of them hybrid perpetuals-all imported. When Miller opened his own nursery, Sievers begin to focus more on roses his entries frequently won first prize and gold medals in floral competitions. Miller operated a commercial nursery on Post Street in San Francisco as well as Exotic Gardens and Conservatories, a public venue, on the 1700 block of Mission Street. In the 1870s, John Sievers and Frederick A.

california sea of roses

He named the introduction ‘Rainbow’ it remains California’s oldest surviving cultivated rose. Sievers, of Metropolitan Nursery in San Francisco, introduced a “clear pink striped with carmine pink and blush” tea rose developed from a sport of the rose ‘Papa Gontier’. Photo: Darrell SchrammĪnother rose introduced in 1889 competes for the title of California’s second cultivated rose. An elegant pointed bud of ‘Rainbow’, a tea rose. Cleveland’ in 1916, so it was available for at least a quarter of a century. A short plant with rich, velvety red blooms, Gill extolled the new rose in his 1889–90 catalog, describing it as similar to the famous ‘General Jacqueminot’ rose “but of a more pronounced color.” The Gill nursery was still offering ‘Mrs. Cleveland’, named for the First Lady at the time. In 1889, he introduced California’s first hybrid perpetual rose, ‘Mrs. Gill’s work with roses did not stop with ‘Sarah Isabella Gill’. Morse, Charles Navlet, Stephen Nolan, George Roeding, Kate Sessions, Louis Stengel, John Turnbull, and others. He supplied nurseries statewide with his roses including Charles Abraham’s Western Nursery, California Rose Company, the Clarke Brothers, Thomas Cox, Howard & Smith, C.C. The 1889–90 Gill catalog lists around 300 rose varieties-his rose grounds in Edenvale (along the Monterey highway to San Jose) must have been enormous. Undervalued for his role in the early California rose world, Gill was the first to successfully breed, propagate, and sell his own roses. Sievers, is California’s oldest surviving cultivated rose. Still offered for sale in 1904, ‘Sarah Isabella Gill’ was California’s first commercial rose, and the state’s first tea rose. Gill described the yellowish tea rose in his 1884 catalog as “Outer petals cream, tinted with pale carmine, fawn center.” Tea roses, like hybrid perpetual roses, are predecessors to hybrid teas. Gill Nursery in 1866, and by 1889 he had purchased 104 acres southwest of Albany near Berkeley on San Pablo Avenue. Nurseryman Edward Cooper Gill (1840–1909), whose great love was roses, introduced ‘Sarah Isabella Gill’. Of those eleven, four are still in commerce.

california sea of roses

Between 18, only eleven new roses were introduced to the public. Not until about 35 years after the 1849 Gold Rush did Californians begin to breed and propagate their own roses. Although the State Agricultural Society praised these roses for their rare beauty, we do not know what became of them. Warren may not have been aware that a San Francisco nurseryman, Harry Sonntag of Pacific Nursery, had produced several rose seedlings that he exhibited in 1858. In 1873, Colonel James Warren, the first editor of California Farmer and a former Boston nursery owner, lamented that Californians were too dependent on imported roses and needed to develop their own. Though nurserymen flocked to the region, especially to the Sacramento and San Jose areas, they primarily cultivated garden produce, ornamental plants, and fruit-olive trees, fig, plum, citrus, and grapes. In the 19th century, California was a young state. Hosp introduced ‘Climbing Cecile Brunner’ in 1894.












California sea of roses