Halo Sunrise Ancestors 2

What’s still green: Arborvitae, juniper and other evergreens, Apache plume, a few roses, cholla, prickly pear, yuccas, red hot poker, grape hyacinth, hollyhock, winecup, large-leaved globemallow, oriental poppy, St. John’s wort, vinca, white sweet clover, alfalfa, sweet pea, flax, beardtongue, snapdragon, coral bells, rock rose, sea pink, large-leaved soapwort, columbine, pink and yellow evening primroses, perky Sue, Shasta daisy, tansy, anthemis, protected Mexican hat, coreopsis, purple aster, cheat grass, bases of needle and June grasses. Someone had good enough gloves to put glass balls on the tips of a yucca in town.

What’s grey, blue-grey or grey-green: Piñon, pinks, snow-in-summer, yellow alyssum, winterfat.

What’s blooming inside: Christmas cactus, aptenia, asparagus fern; rochea and Christmas cactus leaves tinged with red.

Animal sightings: Only dogs come out early in the morning.

Weather: Early morning temperatures fall below 20; afternoons above freezing; ice persist in northwestward facing areas; last rain 12/08/09; 8:45 hours of daylight today.

Weekly update: In the ancestry of Ralph Moore’s Halo Sunrise miniature rose, hybrid teas were the dominant group of roses in the generations before floribundas.

The release of the first hybrid tea in 1867 by Jean-Baptiste André Guillot fils is used by rosarians to mark the boundary between old and modern roses. La France was a seedling of Madame Falcot, which in turn was a seedling of Safrano.

If one instead used the adoption of methodical breeding over selecting chance acts of nature that produced La France, then its grandparent Safrano would be the milestone between the old and the new. The tea rose released in 1839 by Beauregard in Angiers.combined a yellow China with a Bourbon.

Beauregard was following the interests of his fellow Frenchmen in introducing the desirable traits of the China roses into the existing rose population. The techniques used by Jean Laffay at Auteuil in 1837 were less precise than those of Beuregard, but were as complex as those used by Jan de Vink to introduce miniaturization from a China rose into the existing stock. Laffay combined unknown Chinas, Portlands and Bourbons to create the first hybrid perpetual, Princesse Hélène.

Complexity of precise breeding techniques might be a better way to define modern roses. The demarcation between old and new would then be the introduction of Soleil d'Or by Joseph Pernet-Ducher in 1900. The Frenchman combined a Rosa foetida persiana with a hybrid perpetual that not only reintroduced the possibly of using species roses for injecting specific traits, but created a hybrid with an inheritable pure yellow.

Soleil d'Or expanded the range of colors to all the coral, peach and orange shades between yellow and red. It was a yellow rose suffused with pink that created the mass market for roses after World War II when it added resistence to disease to its virtues. Francis Meilland used five different hybrid teas to create the Peace my mother cherished.

Generations 6 to 8 of Halo Sunrise, back to Soleil d'Or, follow.

Gen 6
Alain - gen 4 - floribunda
Ami Quinard - 1927 - Charles Mallerin (2x) - hybrid tea
Madame Méha Sabatier
x (Mrs. Edward Powell x Rosa foetida bicolor)
Ampère - 1937 - Meilland International -hybrid tea
Charles P. Kilham x Condesa de Sástago
Aroma - 1931 - Benjamin R. Cant & Sons - hybrid tea
Unknown
Baby Château - gen 5 - floribunda
Capucine Chambard - species hybrid
Unissued seedling of Rosa foetida bicolor
Charles P. Kilham - gen 5 - hybrid tea
Congo - 1943 - Meilland International - hybrid tea
Admiral Ward x Lemania
Constance - 1915 - Joseph Pernet-Ducher - hybrid tea
Seedling of Rayon d’Or
Crimson Glory - 1935 - W. Kordes Sohne (4x) - hybrid tea
Catherine Kordes seedling x W. E. Chaplin
Crimson Queen - 1912 - Alexander Montgomery - hybrid tea
(Liberty x Richmond) x General MacArthur
Élégante - 1918 - Joseph Pernet-Ducher - hybrid tea
Unknown
Ethel Somerset - 1921 - Alexander Dickson II - hybrid tea
Unknown
Etoile Luisante - 1918 - Turbat - polyantha
Unknown
Eva - gen 5 (2x) - shrub
F. J. Grootendorst - 1918 - De Goey - species hybrid
Rosa rugosa Rubra x possibly Madame Norbert Levavasseur
Frau Karl Druschki - 1901 - Peter Lambert - hybrid perpetual
Merveille de Lyon x Madame Caroline Testout
George Dickson - gen 5 - hybrid tea
Gloria Mundi - 1929 - De Ruiter Innovations BV - polyantha
Sport of Superb
J. C. Thornton - 1926 - BEES (2x) - hybrid tea
Kitchener of Khartoum x Red-Letter Day
Julien Potin - 1927 - Joseph Pernet-Ducher - hybrid tea
Souvenir de Claudius Pernet x seedling
Madame Butterfly - 1918 - Hill and Company - hybrid tea
Sport of Ophelia
McGredy's Pillar - 1935 - Samuel Davidson McGredy III -
hybrid tea
Unknown
Miss Amelia Gude - 1921 - Lemon - hybrid tea
Columbia x Sunburst
Ophelia - 1912 - William, Paul and Son - hybrid tea
Possibly chance seedling of Antony Rivoire
Orange Triumph - gen 5 - polyantha
Pinocchio - gen 4 (2x) - floribunda
Queen Alexandra Rose - 1918 - Samuel McGredy II - hybrid tea
Unknown
Rapture - 1926 - Traendly & Schenck - hybrid tea
Sport of Madame Butterfly
Robin Hood - 1927 - Pemberton (2x) - shrub
Seedling x Miss Edith Cavell
Rome Glory - 1937 - Dominico Aicardi - hybrid tea
Dame Edith Helen x Sensation
Rosa foetida bicolor - species
Sport of Rosa foetida
Asia Minor
Nikolaus von Jacquin describe plant in Schönbrunn gardens,
1770's
Rosa setigera - species
Eastern United States
André Michaux describe from “Carolina inferior,” 1803
Roulettii - 1922 - Henri Correvon - miniature
Discovered by Roulet in Mauborjet, Switzerland, c.1917
Considered to be Rosa chinensis Minima
Sierra Snowstorm - 1936 - Ralph Moore - shrub
Gloire des Rosomanes x Dorothy Perkins
Solarium - 1925 - Eugène Turbat & Compagnie - species hybrid
Unknown Rosa wichurana hybrid
Soeur Thérèse - 1931 - Francis Gillot - hybrid tea
(Général Jacqueminot x Juliet)
x Souvenir de Claudius Pernet
Souvenir de Claudius Denoyle - 1920 – Chambard - climber
Château de Clos Vougeot x Commandeur Jules Gravereaux
Souvenir de George Beckwith - 1919 - Joseph Pernet-Ducher -
hybrid tea
Seedling x Lyon Rose
Tassin - 1942 - Meilland International - hybrid tea
National Flower Guild x Lemania
Gen 7
Admiral Ward - 1915 - Joseph Pernet-Ducher - hybrid tea
Seedling x Château de Clos Vougeot
Antony Rivoire - 1895 - Pernet-Ducher - hybrid tea
Docteur Grill x Lady Mary Fitzwilliam
Catherine Kordes - 1930 - hybrid tea
No information
Charles P. Kilham - gen 5 - hybrid tea
Château de Clos Vougeot -1908 - Pernet-Ducher - hybrid tea
Unknown
Columbia - 1917 - E. Gurney Hill Co. - hybrid tea
Ophelia x Mrs. George Shawyer
Commandeur Jules Gravereaux - 1908 - Jean-B. Croibier & Fils
hybrid perpetual
Frau Karl Druschki x Liberty
Condesa de Sástago - 1930 - Pedro Dot - hybrid tea
(Souvenir de Claudius Pernet x Maréchal Foch)
x Margaret McGredy
Dame Edith Helen - 1916 - Alexander Dickson II - hybrid tea
Mrs. John Laing x unknown
Dorothy Perkins - 1901 - E. Alvin Miller - rambler
Madame Gabriel Luizet x Rosa wichurana
Général Jacqueminot - 1853 - Roussel/Rousselet -
hybrid perpetual
Seedling of Gloire des Rosomanes x Géant des Batailles
General MacArthur - before 1904 - E. Gurney Hill Co. -
hybrid tea
Gruss an Teplitz
Gloire des Rosomanes - 1825 - Plantier - tea
Unknown, used as rootstock as Ragged Robin
Possibly, Slater’s Crimson and Portland rose
Juliet - 1910 - Walter Easlea (or) William Paul and Son -
hybrid perpetual
Captain Hayward x Soleil d'Or
Kitchener of Khartoum - 1917 - Alexander Dickson II -
hybrid tea
Unknown
Lemania - 1937 - Emil Heizmann (2x) - hybrid tea
Unknown
Liberty - 1900 - Alexander Dickson II - hybrid tea
Mrs. W. J. Grant x Charles J. Grahame
Lyon Rose - 1907 - Joseph Pernet-Ducher - hybrid tea
Madame Mélanie Soupert x seedling of Soleil d'Or
Madame Butterfly - gen 6 - hybrid tea
Madame Caroline Testout - 1890 - Joseph Pernet-Ducher -
hybrid tea
Madame de Tartas x Lady Mary Fitzwilliam
Madame Méha Sabatier - 1916 - Pernet-Ducher - hybrid tea
Seedling x Château de Clos Vougeot
Madame Norbert Levavasseur - 1903 - Levavasseur - polyantha
Crimson Rambler x Gloire des Polyantha
Merveille de Lyon - 1882 - Jean Pernet (père) - hybrid perpetual
Baronne Adolphe de Rothschild x Safrano
Miss Edith Clavell - 1917 - De Ruiter - polyantha
Sport of Orléans Rose
Mrs. Edward Powell - 1911 - Pierre Bernaux (fils) - hybrid tea
Unknown
National Flower Guild - 1927 - Charles Mallerin - hybrid tea
(Capt. F. Bald x Kitchener of Khartoum)
x Madame Van de Voorde
Ophelia - gen 6 - hybrid tea
Rayon d’Or - 1910 - Joseph Pernet-Ducher - hybrid tea
Madame Mélanie Soupert x Soleil d’Or
Red-Letter Day - 1914 - Alexander Dickson II - hybrid tea
Unknown
Richmond - 1904 - E. Gurney Hill Co. - hybrid tea
Lady Battersea x Liberty
Rosa chinensis - gen 5 - species
Rosa chinensis Minima - miniature
Rosa chinensis with miniaturizing trait preserved
China, spread to Mauritius
Described in England by Robert Sweet, 1810
Rosa foetida - species
Nikolaus von Jacquin’s name for hypothetical species
Rosa foetida bicolor - gen 6 - species
Rosa rugosa Rubra - species
Selection of Rosa rugosa
Sold by Jacques-Martin Cels, 1802
Rosa wichurana - gen 4 - species
Sensation - 1922 - Joseph H. Hill, Co. - hybrid tea
Hoosier Beauty x Premier
Superb - 1927 - De Ruiter Innovations BV
Sport of Orléans Rose
Souvenir de Claudius Pernet - gen 5 (2x)- hybrid tea
Sunburst - 1901 - Joseph Pernet-Ducher - hybrid tea
Unknown
W. E. Chaplin - 1929 - Chaplin Bros., Ltd - hybrid tea
Unknown
Gen 8
Baronne Adolphe de Rothschild -1868 - Pernet -
hybrid perpetual
Sport of Souvenir de la Reine d’Angleterre
Capt. F. Bald - 1919 - Alexander Dickson II - hybrid tea
Unknown
Captain Hayward - 1893 - Henry Bennett - hybrid perpetual
Seedling of Triomphe de l'Exposition
Charles J. Grahame - before 1905 - Alexander Dickson II -
hybrid tea
Unknown
Château de Clos Vougeot - gen 7 (2x) - hybrid tea
Crimson Rambler - 1893 - Charles Turner - species hybrid
Rosa multiflora
Developed by Japanese breeders
Docteur Grill - 1884 - Joseph Bonnaire - tea
Ophirie x Souvenir de Victor Hugo
Frau Karl Druschki - gen 6 - hybrid perpetual
Géant des Batailles - 1845 - Nérard - hybrid perpetual
Seedling of Gloire des Rosomanes
Gloire des Polyantha - 1886 - polyantha
Jean-Baptiste André (fils) Guillot and Pierre Guillot
Seedling of Mignonette
Gloire des Rosomanes - gen 7 - tea
Gruss an Teplitz - before 1897 - Rudolf Geschwind - Bourbon
((Sir Joseph Paxton x Fellenberg) x Papa Gontier)
x Gloire des Rosomanes
Hoosier Beauty - 1915 - Frederick Dorner & Sons - hybrid tea
Richmond x Château de Clos Vougeot
Kitchener of Khartoum - gen 7 - hybrid tea
Lady Battersea - 1901 - George Paul, Jr. - hybrid tea
Madame Abel Chatenay x Liberty
Lady Mary Fitzwilliam - 1882 - Bennett (2x) - hybrid tea
Devoniensis x Victor Verdier
Liberty - 1900 - gen 7 - hybrid tea
Madame de Tartas - 1859 - H.B. (or possibly H. Pierre) Bernède
tea
Unknown
Madame Gabriel Luizet - 1877 - Liabaud - hybrid perpetual
Seedling of Jules Margotten
Madame Mélanie Soupert - 1905 - Joseph Pernet-Ducher (2x) -
hybrid tea
Unknown
Madame Van de Voorde - 1928 - Charles Mallerin- hybrid tea
Madame Méha Sabatier x Kitchener of Khartoum
Maréchal Foch - 1918 - Levavasseur - polyantha
Sport of Orléans Rose
Margaret McGredy - gen 5 - hybrid tea
Mrs. George Shawyer - 1911 - Lowe & Shawyer - hybrid tea
Madame Hoste x Joseph Lowe
Mrs. John Laing - c. 1885 - Henry Bennett - hybrid perpetual
François Michelon x seedling
Mrs. W.J. Grant - before 1894 - Alexander Dickson II -
hybrid tea
La France x Lady Mary Fitzwilliam
Ophelia - gen 6 - hybrid tea
Orléans Rose - 1909 - Levavasseur (2x) - polyantha
Seedling of Madame Norbert Levavasseur
Premier - 1918 - E. Gurney Hill Co. - hybrid tea
Seedling of Ophelia x Mrs. Charles E. Russell
Rosa chinensis - gen 5 - species
Rosa rugosa - species
Japan, Korea
Lee and Kennedy introduce to England, 1796
Rosa wichurana - gen 4 - species
Safrano - 1839 - Beauregard - tea
Parks’ Yellow Tea-Scented Rose x Madame Desprez
Slater’s Crimson - 1789 - China
Possibly pure Rosa chinensis
Sometimes called Rosa chinensis semperflorens
Unknown Chinese breeders
East India man send from China to Gilbert Slater in England,
1789
Soleil d'Or - 1900 - Joseph Pernet-Ducher (3x) - hybrid tea
Seedling of Antoine Ducher x Rosa foetida persiana
Souvenir de Claudius Pernet - gen 5 - hybrid tea

Notes: Ancestries mostly drawn from the Helpbefind.com website and Botanica’s Roses, 2000.

Photograph: Olymipiad, the only hybrid tea to survive the dry cold of February in my yard, has no hips and most of the thorns are on the lower stems. The red rose was released in 1982 by Sam McGredy IV, the man who bred Anytime, the seed parent of Halo Sunrise; 12/19/09.