Mme Norbert Levavasseur (Polyantha) [Crimson Rambler x Gloire des Polyantha] (SJH)

May 16, 2008

May 16, 2008

Journal of Horticulture and Home Farmer (May 23, 1907)
Breeding from the Baby Rambler Rose.
A number of cross-bred seedlings, grown from Baby Rambler [Mme Norbert Levavasseur], are disappointing in that none turns out to be constant-blooming, though largely pollenised with ever-blooming kinds, says Dr. Van Fleet in "Rural New Yorker." All came near to the Crimson Rambler type, regardless of the habit of the pollen parent, and will probably develop into tall-climbing annual bloomers. When pollen of Baby Rambler, which has the continuous flowering Gloire des Polyanthes as one parent, is used on the stigmas of annual-blooming Ramblers of Wichuraiana hybrids, very dwarf over-blooming plants result in large proportion, and something may perhaps be done to develop a useful group, of which Baby Bambler will likely remain the type