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hybrid perpetual en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A cross between a damask rose and a hybrid China rose.
   • 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. 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:
   • 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. 1950, James Alexander Gamble, “Important Mother Roses”, in Roses Unlimited, [Harrisburg, Pa.]: […] [T]he author, page 27:
   • For the average florist a dozen selected varieties of the hybrid perpetuals and half as many climbers are really necessary. 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:

Forms

Hypernyms

old rose

Relateds

hybrid tea