dit is een "gewone" roos ...

Rose Serné

Enige tijd geleden kwam ik erachter dat er (eens) een roos is (was) genaamd Rose Serné.
Deze informatie vond ik op deze internet pagina

Ik heb bij diverse adressen geďnformeerd voor meer informatie over deze roos, echter zonder resultaat.
Ik vond op het internet dat er een boek bestaat waarin de Rose Serné wordt beschreven:
Paul Boitard's Manuel Complet de l'Amateur de Rose, published in Paris in 1836

In een nieuwsgroep over rozen (rec.gardens.roses) heb ik weer mijn vraag om informatie over de Rose Serné gesteld. Ik kreeg van de heer Brent C. Dickerson het volgende antwoord:
The rose 'Serné' was a Gallica rose bred or at least introduced by Hardy of the Luxembourg Palace gardens in 1825. It is described in Boitard's book as (my translation from the original French): "Bush with very dentate foliage; flowers large, a beautiful pink, having in the center a crown formed by the stamens." In case you look for a copy of the book in libraries, etc., the name of the author is Pierre Boitard, rather than Paul Boitard.

Ik heb de volgende vragen:
- Bestaat de Rose Serné nog, of is zij uitgestorven ?
- Is er een afbeelding/tekening van deze roos bij u bekend ?
- Kent iemand het bovengenoemde boek ?
- Waarom heet deze roos Rose Serné ?
- Weet iemand andere bronnen waaraan ik mijn vragen kan stellen ?

Naast mijn vragen in de rozen nieuwsgroep heb ik diversen medewerkers van hortussen botanicus in Nederland en Engeland aangeschreven, helaas zonder positief resultaat.

Wel heb ik her en der op het internet informatie gevonden over de kweker Hardy en over zijn rozentuin "The Luxembourg Palace Gardens".

Alexandre Hardy was no stranger in the Rose World; one of his varieties alone ('Madame Hardy') would have sufficed to render his name popular; but he was fortunate enough to raise many others of first-rate properties, some bearing the after-appellation of "Du Luxembourg"... He never practised selling his Roses, but exchanged with his friends for other plants. He retired from the superintendence of these gardens some thirty-five years ago.

From The Rose Garden, by William Paul, pp. 59- : The most renowned Rosarium in Europe was formerly that of the Jardin du Luxembourg at Paris... I remember seeing there, in the month of June, on my first visit to Paris, a Standard of the Tea 'Princesse Hélčne du Luxembourg', of an immense size, with hundreds of its fine flowers in beautiful condition... [Paul provides diagrams of the garden] ... a line of fruit trees [was] originally planted in the borders surrounding the Rose-beds, forming a sort of back-ground... These gardens were enclosed by a kind of fence made of light sticks, which are much used in France for similar purposes. The manner of planting adopted was this: -- The beds were about seven feet wide, and contained two rows. Two plants of each variety, a standard and a dwarf, were planted side by side at distances of about three feet. They were so disposed that every standard had a dwarf behind it, and in consequence every dwarf was backed by a standard... [there were about 1,800 plants]

Located in the Luxembourg garden, the Luxembourg palace was built in the 17th century by Marie de Medicis, a French queen, on the model of Palazzo Pitti in her native Florence.