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Rose Breeding

Breeding Roses

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Rose Pigments and Inheritance

Bud Selection

Rose Propagation

Lindley: Layering Roses (1820)
Loudon: Propagating Roses (1824)
Van Mons: Grafting and Budding Roses (1827)
MacIntosh: Propagating Tea-scented Roses (1829)
BG: Budding Roses (1830)
Elles: On the Culture of the Rosa odorata, (1830)
The following mode of propagation is easy and expeditious:— Put a plant or two into the hot-house in January or February, and there will soon be some young shoots: as soon as they have three or four leaves, take them off, no matter how tender or succulent, but never remove or shorten a leaf. Having prepared your cuttings, put them into sand, with a glass over them, in the same heat as the plants, and in three weeks they will be ready to be potted off. Thus continue taking fresh cuttings, or topping the cuttings already struck, till there are as many as you want. I propagated upwards of 100 plants in one season, from a small plant which only afforded three cuttings at the commencement.
Loudon: Vibert, Propagating Roses with Rosa x reversa (1831)
Mantell: Propagating Rose (1832)
Gardener's Magazine 9: 524 (1833)
Mr. Brown is celebrated for having raised two roses of the Bengal kind, viz., Brown's celestial and Brown's superb. They are both roses which grow with great vigour, and they are peculiarly susceptible of training as pyramids. There is here a large stock of that scarce rose, the yellow Noisette, obtained by grafting portions of shoots, containing only a single bud, on stocks of Brown's superb. This is an invention of one of the Messrs. Brown. The scion is not above an inch in length, and it is put on the stock, in the whip-grafting manner, close by the surface of the ground. The stock is of the wood of the former year, and the scion of the current year. Excellent and saleable plants are thus produced the very first season.
Gardener's Magazine 9: 698 (1833)
Chinese Roses may be propagated from single Buds, as Grape Vines are propagated.— The single bud, with a quarter of an inch of the stem both above and below it, is placed just under the soil, under a bell glass; the leafstalks and leaves standing upright as in a cutting. A single bud of Rosa semperflorens sanguinea was planted on July 26., and on Sept. 8. the bud had grown nearly four inches, and a blossom bud was formed. On Oct. 9. it was six inches high, and side shoots were being produced. Charles M. Willich. London, Oct. 23. 1833.
Clericus: Rooting Roses (1838)
Manetti: Root-grafting Roses (1840)
Lelieur: Grafting Roses onto Eglantine (1843)
Parsons: Propagating roses from leaves (1847)
Prairie Roses as Rootstocks (1849)
Maund: Layering Roses (1849?)
Curtis: Rose stocks (1850)
Saul: Rose Stocks (1850)
AA: Rosa banksiae as rootstock (1851)
Meehan: Budded Roses (1855)
Hibberd: Striking Roses from Eyes (1860)
Earley: 'Maréchal Niel' on 'Gloire de Dijon' (1869)
WPA: The Rose Secret (1872)
Sisley: Grafting Roses (1883)
DTF: Rooting buds of Boule de Neige (1887)
But, in the absence of these children of Boule de Neige, we may all endeavour to increase our stock of the parent variety. There are few gardens that could not find room for double, treble, or ten times the number of this choice and fragrant Rose. As Mr. Girdlestone points out, it does not root very readily on its own roots. Buds of it, however, may be rooted pretty readily. Well-ripened buds may be prepared as follows, and inserted in heat in July or August, or December or January: Pieces of wood about an inch long should be chosen. Cut the section straight across at each end, leaving the bud in the centre. Then remove about a third of the circumference of the wood from the under side of the bud. Place these on the surface of a pot or pan, and cover all but the bud over with fine soil or sand, making all as firm as possible. Cover with a bell-glass or plunge in a close hot-bed at a temperature of 65° or 70°. Keep close till rooted, then gradually expose to more air; pot off when fairly rooted, and grow on in a close genial atmosphere till quite established.
AD: Marechal Niel on Lamarque on Briar (1889)
Heideman: Rosa blanda as rootstock (1892)
Wintzer: Rooting Rugosa Hybrids (1894)
Gadeceau: Rosa multiflora as rootstock (1906)
Tukey & Green: Gradient composition of rose shoots (1934)
Hjort: Sporting Tendencies of Newer vs. Older Roses (1938)
Zimmerman: Rose 'Sports' from Adventitious Buds (1951)
Gammon & McFadden: Effect of Rootstocks (1979)
Doss et al: Etiolation and rooting in Rubus (1980)
Davis, Haissig: Etiolation and Rooting (2013)
Lloyd: Adventitious in vitro Rosa shoots (1988)
Arene: Somaclonal variation in Roses (1993)
Kane: Micropropagation of Rose (2000)
Cabrera: Rose rootstocks and minerals (2002)
Francis: Rosa fortuniana rootstock, Australia (2010)
Ma: Phosphorus and Rosa multiflora (2020)

Hastening or Delaying Roses

Bacon: Delaying Roses (1635)
Mortimer: Delaying Roses (1716)
Shearing off the Buds when they are put forth, for the retarding of the blowing of Roses is practicable enough; and a second shearing of them may cause them to fill later, and so Roses may be had when no other Flowers are in being; but then care must be taken that the whole Tree be serv'd so: For if one part of it be only shear'd, the part unshear'd will spend that Strength and Sap which you expected would have new Buds in the places of those cut off, and frustrate your design.
Loudon: Forwarding & Retarding Roses (1824)
Hayward: Delaying Roses (1831)
Moniger: Forcing Crimson Rambler for Easter (1909)