Creator: Schwartz, France, 1879Flowers: 10 cm
Height: 5 m
This is one of the most healthier and famous climbing rose that blooms almost continuous over the year. In 1908 was proclaimed "the best White Climber" by the National Rose Society in England. This Noisette grows over 5m height in hot climates, has few thorns and double flowers, 10 cm in diameter, being quite fragrant and of a pink pearl color, when they are beginning to open, especially when the weather is cold, and then acquire the color white which gives them the distinction and identity. It is a wonderful rose that deserves the fame it has acquired over a century ago.
The name of Joseph Schwartz will forever be related to the creation of this famous noisette, but during his short career, between 1871 and 1885, Schwartz won more than sixty new varieties of roses - especially Hybrid Perpetual, Tea and Bourbon - and some other climbers of a remarkable quality, many of them unfortunately already extinguished in the market.
Joseph Schwartz was born in Bourgoin in 1846. He was Jean-Baptiste Guillot apprentice and later, at the age of 18, he was appointed head of its nurseries. In May 1870 Joseph made a deal with Jean-Baptiste and bought him "La Terre des Roses."- The Land of Roses. This was when his career as a rose breeder began. Some of his roses got really famous such as the bourbon "Queen Victoria" (1872) the perpetual hybrid "Duchesse de Vallombrosa" (1875) and "Madame de Kerchove Oswald" (1879.
Unfortunately he died very young at the age of 44. But the business continued thanks to the tenacity and competence of his widow that between 1886 and 1900 had the merit of introducing in the market sixty new varieties, among them the fascinating "Dr. Rouges" (1894), the famous Bourbon "Madam Ernest Calvat (1888) and the popular Hybrid Perpetual" Lambelin Roger (1890). Between 1901 and 1920 his son Andrew Shwartz maintained the dynamism of the company with the production of fifty new varieties.
