Crimson and mauve tea rose "Cheshunt hybrid." Rosa gigantea, Rosa chinensis.

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Crimson and mauve tea rose "Cheshunt hybrid" Rosa gigantea, Rosa chinensis Hybrid introduced by George Paul of the Paul & Son nursery in Cheshunt, Hertfordshite. Handcolored botanical drawn and lithographed by Smith from Dombrain's "Floral Magazine" 1872. Worthington G. Smith (1835-1917), architect, engraver and mycologist. Smith also illustrated "The Gardener's Chronicle." Henry Honywood Dombrain (1818-1905), clergyman gardener, was editor of the "Floral Magazine" from 1862 to 1873.

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