''Rosa'' 'Souvenir de Claudius Pernet' is a medium yellow

Hybrid tea rose Hybrid tea is an informal horticultural classification for a group of garden roses. The first hybrid tea roses were created in France in the mid-1800s, by cross-breeding the large, floriferous Hybrid Perpetuals with the tall, elegant Tea roses. T ...

, bred by French rose breeder,

Joseph Pernet-Ducher Joseph Pernet-Ducher (1859–1928) was a French rose breeder who is recognized for his work in the development of the modern Hybrid tea rose. Pernet and his father, Jean Pernet, worked together in the 1880s to develop the first yellow remontant ...

before 1919. He named the rose for his son Claudius, who was killed in action in

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

. 'Souvenir de Claudius Pernet' is one of the ancestors of the famous 'Peace' rose.

Description

'Souvenir de Claudius Pernet' is a medium yellow hybrid tea rose with large, full (26-40) petals, born mostly solitary. Buds are large and pointed and open to flowers that are medium yellow or golden with a dark yellow center. The rose has a mild fragrance and has dark green glossy foliage. The shrub blooms in flushes throughout the summer.

History

Pernet-Ducher

Joseph Pernet was born near

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

, France, in 1859. His father, Jean Pernet, (1832-1896) was a successful nurseryman and a 2nd generation rosarian. Joseph worked at his father's nursery until 1879, when he was hired as an apprentice by nursery owner and rose breeder, Claude Ducher. Ducher introduced many rose cultivars in the 1800s, including the Hybrid Perpetual 'Gloire de Ducher' and two popular Tea roses, 'Marie van Hourte' (1871) and 'Anna Olivier' (1872). After Ducher's death in 1874, his widow, Marie Serlin Ducher (1834-1881) promoted Pernet to nursery foreman. Pernet married Ducher's daughter, Marie, in 1882 and took the name "Pernet-Ducher. During the 1880s, Pernet-Ducher and Jean Pernet developed a rose breeding program to develop a new class of Hybrid teas and create a

remontant Remontancy is the ability of a plant to flower more than once during the course of a growing season or year. It is a term applied most specifically to roses, and roses possessing this ability are called "repeat flowering" or remontant. The term or ...

, deep yellow Hybrid perpetual. The only yellow roses at the time were pale yellow or buff colored. They bred their new rose varieties using controlled pollination with great success and were able to create many popular new cultivars, including 'Madame Caroline Testout' (1890) and 'Mme Abel Chatenay' (1895). In 1887, Pernet-Ducher and Pernet crossed the red Hybrid perpetual, 'Antoine Ducher' with ''

Rosa foetida ''Rosa foetida'', known by several common names, including Austrian briar, Persian yellow rose, and Austrian copper rose, is a species of rose, native to the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains in Georgia. It has yellow flowers with a scent whic ...

'', which Pernet-Ducher selected for its bright, long-lasting yellow color. One seedling survived the hybridization process and was planted in Pernet-Ducher's garden. Two years later, he noticed a new seedling growing alongside the original Foetida hybrid planting. It grew to be an exceptional floriferous rose with large blooms and a unique and beautiful blended color of pink, peach, yellow, and apricot. He named the seedling 'Soleil d'Or' (golden sun).

'Souvenir de Claudius Pernet'

'Souvenir de Claudius Pernet' was named in honor of Pernet-Ducher's son Claudius who was killed in action in World War I. Pernet-Ducher created the rose by crossing Pernetiana 'Constance' with an unnamed seedling. 'Souvenir de Claudius Pernet' was used to hybridize the following rose varieties: 'Ambassador', 'Amelia Earhart', 'Angel Guimara', 'Autumn', 'Condesa de Sastago', 'Duquesa de Penaranda', 'Gruss an Coburg', 'Irene Churruca', 'Julien Potin', 'Mrs. Pierre S. duPont', 'Oratam', 'Peace', 'President Herbert Hoover', 'Soeur Therese', and 'Talisman'.

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* * * {{Rose, state=collapsed Souvenir de Claudius Pernet 1920 introductions