hybrid perpetual

English

The hybrid perpetual Rosa ‘La Reine’

Noun

hybrid perpetual (plural hybrid perpetuals)

1. A cross between a damask rose and a hybrid China rose.

   Hypernym: old rose

   • 1899 May 27, C. B. W., “Helpful Reminders”, in The American Florist, volume XIV, number 573, Chicago, Ill.: American Florist Company, →OCLC, page 1300, column 1:

     For the average florist a dozen selected varieties of the hybrid perpetuals and half as many climbers are really necessary.

   • 1950, James Alexander Gamble, “Important Mother Roses”, in Roses Unlimited, [Harrisburg, Pa.]: […] [T]he author, page 27:

     Hill, Montgomery and others here in America, and Verschuren, Kordes, Tantau and others in Europe were at the time seeking a fine repeat-blooming red greenhouse variety to take the place of the hybrid perpetuals American Beauty and General Jacqueminot, which were then being brought into bloom for the Christmas trade.

   • 1956, Arthur Harmount Graves, “Ròsa—Rose”, in Illustrated Guide to Trees and Shrubs : A Handbook of the Woody Plants of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada, revised edition, New York: Dover Publications, published 1992, page 146:

     Some of these roses and other exotic spp. are the parents of our cultivated roses—tea roses, hybrid perpetuals, climbers, ramblers etc.—over 5000 vars. having been named.

Related terms

• hybrid tea

References

• “hybrid perpetual, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Further reading

• Garden roses § Hybrid perpetual on Wikipedia.Wikipedia