Lamarque (Noisette) [Blush Tea-Scented x ?] Originally named 'Rose Maréchal'.

Mémoires, Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts d'Angers 1: 40-41 (1831)

D'UNE NOUVELLE VARIÉTÉ DE ROSIER, PROVENUE D'UNE GRAINE DE ROSIER THÉ ORDINAIRE.
    Fleurs grandes (3 pouces de diamètre); pleines; d'un blanc éclatant, avec la base des pétales légèrement lavées de jaune tendre; solitaires ou réunies par deux ou par trois à l'extrémité des rameaux, qui sont effilés, à écorce d'un beau vert, comme celle qui recouvre le vieux bois; cinq à sept folioles ovales-oblongues, d'un vert tendre; ovaire petit, ovale, presque nu; sépales réfléchis; aiguillons rares, forts, d'un rouge brun.
    Cette variété bien remarquable, qui est remontante et d'une odeur agréable, mérite, par les agrémens qu'elle présente, de fixer l'attention des amateurs de belles fleurs. Elle ne se trouve encore que chez M. Maréchal, jardinier à la Croix-Montaillé, qui l'a obtenue d'une graine de rosier thé ordinaire; et à laquelle les jardiniers d'Angers ont donné le nom de Rose Maréchal.

A NEW VARIETY OF ROSE ORIGINATED FROM A SEED OF THE COMMON TEA
    Flowers large (3 inches in diameter) full, bright white, with the base of the petals slightly washed with yellow soft, solitary or joined by two or three at the end of branches, which are tapered, to bark of a beautiful green, like that which covers the old wood; five to seven leaflets ovate-oblong, pale green; ovary small, oval, almost naked; reflexed sepals; few spines, strong, brown-red.
    This remarkable variety, which is remontant and of a sweet scent, deserves, by its charms, to fix the attention of lovers of beautiful flowers. It is found that even at Mr. Maréchal, gardener at Croix-Montaillé, who obtained it from a seed of the common tea rose, and that the gardeners of Angers gave the name of Rose Maréchal.

SJH June 13, 2009

June 13, 2009

Lamarck from Gardeners' Chronicle 1885, p 378

Amongst the Roses which have suffered a partial eclipse from the rush for novelties is the old and beautiful climbing Noisette, which the facile pencil of Mr. Fitch has so well pourtrayed (fig. 70), and yet is not after all, a very old Rose. It was raised by Maréchal, a French grower, about the year 1830, and was at one time very generally cultivated by such Rose growers as could give space to it, for being a rampant growing climbing Rose it requires considerable room on a south wall; and where this is to be had, most Rose lovers prefer (such is the taste for yellow Roses amongst us) to give it to either a Gloire de Dijon, Madame Bérard, Belle Lyonnaise, or Maréchal Niel. There is another reason which has tended to limit the number of its admirers — it is not perfectly hardy, and it will not stand severe winters as well as Roses of the Gloire de Dijon class; moreover, it is hardly ever fit for an exhibition stand, and that in these days is a serious drawback. And yet it surely deserves a better fate than this; its numerous clusters of white flowers, with oftentimes the faintest soupçon of yellow in the centre, are very chaste and charming, and there is no Rose that looks better when cut with a good long footstalk and placed loosely in a tall vase, especially if the vase be of ruby-coloured glass, when the contrast of the pure white flowers is very marked; it is less formal in its growth than many of the exhibition kinds, and is thoroughly a lady's flower.

September 28, 2008