"zxcvbob" wrote in message
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I Love Lucy wrote:
Unfortunately I don't have a photo of it, but a couple other people
are asking on the web about what rose it could have been, too. Maybe
it was grown well before WWII; I don't know and don't remember
anybody else having one other than people now talkign about it trying
to identify it.

Ours was a rental house and it had been there since at least before
1943, very mature, was huge, on a large trellis, very tall and very
wide. I don't know a multiflora from a grandiflora, but it had
clusters of small (maybe 1-inch?), double, medium pink to rose
colored blooms, for a long period during the summer. Don't remember
a particular fragrance and it wasn't much for cutting, but sure
looked beautiful when it bloomed. It required no care that I
remember.

I remember my mother talking about a Pinnochio rose, but I think that
was a shrub rose, and the only other named rose we had was a Peace
rose when they became all the rage and some miniature ones.


My mother-in-law has one that she calls a "fairy rose". I don't know
what the variety is.

http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/...airy-rose.html

Too light, not the flower form I remember

I think what you're looking for is classified as a Rambler; the most
famous variety is named Dorthy Perkins. HTH :-)

Here's a Dorothy Perkins; I'm looking in my rose book. I know there are
variations within varieties, soil, weather, but I don't remember the
blossom looking like this:

http://www.justourpictures.com/roses...hyperkins.html

That's not the best sample as those don't look like any rose leaves I
ever saw, but the pink is about right.

Bob