On 17/6/06 15:37, in article ,
"Charlie Pridham" wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 17/6/06 08:15, in article ,
No, I don't know the rose but there is no doubt it's white. Have a look
at
the David Austin site too, BTW.
http://www.davidaustinroses.com/engl....asp?showr=917
The white group in the RHS colour chart is in Fan 4 and runs as follows:
White group, Greyed-White, Green-White, Yellow-White, Orange-White. Each
card has 4 shades on it and on printing off your pic and looking at that
and
the screen picture, I have no doubt in saying that it's in White Group and
looks most like 155D. The centre appears to fall into the Yellow-White
Group 158 and is 158A. Naturally, colour registers can alter things but
this is most certainly not a yellow rose!
However, there IS a pale yellow tea rose called Perle des Jardins, bred by
Levet and my guess is that your interlocutor might be thinking of that
one?
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Many thanks for all that. It is a customer who wanted a white rose, we sold
them 'La Perle' 2 years ago and we have recently received a letter claiming
its yellow and that they don't like it, so can we replace it! We don't sell
any yellow roses and the picture supplied by them is indeed La Perle so I
can not see the problem but they are starting to irritate us with constant
phone messages and letters.
They are not far from you, so if someone comes in looking for a white rose -
duck!

How fortunate it is that we don't do a great number of roses!! And they've
waited TWO years? Hmmmmm.....!
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(email address on website)