Sunburst (HT) [Mme Mélanie Soupert x Le Progrès]
The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening (Nov 23,
1912)
PLATE 1459
ROSE SUNBURST.
This variety is one of the latest of a whole series
of beautiful yellow Roses which have come into commerce recently. Until a
few years ago good yellow Hybrid Teas were not in existence, but during
the last decade hybridists have produced them in abundance. In Sunburst we
have an excellent Rose, as it has perfume, lovely form, long lasting
qualities, and above all, from a commercial point of view,
excellent habit. A curious point about this Rose is that the second
crop of blooms, as well as those produced from lateral shoots, come of a
rich cadmium yellow, passing to yellow orange in the centre and
without the white shading. It is very free-flowering and perpetual,
and has already created quite a sensation in the commercial growing centres of
America. Under glass it is a wonderful success as an autumn Rose, and
I was recently informed by a commercial florist, who has some thousands in
pots and planted out, that the demands, both of the home market and
Paris, far exceeded the supply. Out of doors I should term it a glorified
Mrs. Aaron Ward. The flowers for the coloured plate were supplied by
Messrs. Stuart Low and Co. of Bush Hill Park. DANECROFT.
American Rose Annual, 1907
Commercial rose culture, under glass and outdoors By Eber Holmes, 1919