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Bob's shot looks pretty saturated (but what do I know?), and I know
your rose looks a bit lighter.

Anyway, you can read a fair amount about this road at HelpMeFind. Click
on the References link.

Sweet. This looks very promising. The color is lighter in my specimen,
but I really think that's because it's in full sun from a little after
sunrise to about an hour before sunset. The timeframe is close, she
would have had to have purchased the rose fairly near it's beginning.

She didn't have to purchase immediately after release. Within the first
15 or 20 years is early, too. Apparently greengrocer drove around with
their wares in the back of a wagon, selling door to door in rural
areas. And with that stuff, or maybe a different salesman, went roses.
We know around here that tea roses were sold all up and down the old
roads because some pretty unusual (now) things are in a lot of
farmhouse yards.

The only thing that is different is that HelpMeFind lists the rose as
reblooming, but afaik, my rose does not. I guess we'll find out for
sure, right?

Yes, and the scent. It's supposed to be pretty distinctive. How do
those flowers smell? And something a bit odd is the size of the old
bush. How big is that beast? 8 feet or something, did you say? Or 5
feet?

You know how family legends are...Just because I heard it came on the
wagon train doesn't necessarily mean it's true!

People still traveled by horse and buggy then, tho they liked to take
the train on really long trips.

Also, I discovered from
my grandmother recently that the original bush my GGM planted was
destroyed by her husband when she died. He tore out all of her roses,
because every time he looked at them, they reminded him of her. The
"parent bush" I got the digging off of was a start she gave to my other
GGM.

Soleil d'Or is supposed to sucker like crazy. Sharing would be easy.

The range of colors on this little girl is amazing. It went from almost
white to yellow with a hint of peach, to a fairly significant pink. I
didn't get a shot of that one, dang it. Oh, and the new sucker...er...
Basal Cane :-) *is* beginning to put out buds.

So to find out if it reblooms, you should cut or snap off the spent
blooms. Since it's such a small plant, you don't need to do any of that
outward-facing-7 or 5- leave-leaflet stuff.

This is a very neat find. We're not sure yet what it is, but we might
be closing in on it.