Perfection des Blanches. Schwartz, 1873. Pure white.
White Baroness. Paul & Son, 1883. Pure white.
CHAPTER IX
BOURBON, CHINA, AND POLYANTHA ROSES
Besides the three great races of perpetual flowering Roses, the Teas, Hybrid Teas, and Hybrid Perpetuals, on which the chief interest of the modern rose-world is centred at the present time, there are other perpetual flowering roses, which are of great importance both for their value in the past and their beauty in the present. For although the modern hybrids have somewhat obscured the fame of their ancestors, many of them owe their origin to the Bourbon and China roses, which, in the early years of the nineteenth century, before the advent of Hybrid Perpetuals, were almost the only autumn flowering roses on which to depend.
The Bourbon Rose, R. Bourboniana.
According to that invaluable book,[7] to which I owe an untold debt of gratitude since first I began to study rose-growing seriously—the original Bourbon, "a beautiful semi-double rose, with brilliant rose-coloured flowers, prominent buds, and nearly evergreen foliage," was discovered in the Isle of Bourbon.