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Aglaia rose bush File#2462
Hybrid Multiflora

Our large and growing collection of pictures of old garden roses. Most classes of old roses are pictured here.

Strictly speaking old garden roses are those existing before 1867. We've taken a few liberties here and have included roses bred up to the first half of the 20th century.

Its a a lot of fun getting this collection together. We've seen some amazing gardens, met some of the most dedicated and knowledgeable old rose enthusiasts and learned a lot along the way.

Many rose growers start with moderns and move on to heritage roses. Maybe these pictures will help you see why.

Click the thumbnails to see the full image.

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Agnes

Rugosa
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Alberic Barbier

hybrid wichurana

Albertine


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Alba Maxima

Alba

 rose
Aloha

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Anne-Marie de Montravel

Polyantha
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Anna Olivier

Tea
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Ann Endt

Hybrid Rugosa

Climbing American Beauty
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Applejack

Shrub
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Arthur de Sansal

Portland
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Autumn Damask

Damask
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Autumn Delight

Hybrid Musk
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Belle Poitevine

Hybrid Rugosa
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Ballerina

hybrid musk
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Baronne Prevost

Hybrid Perpetual

Baron de Bonstetten
hybrid perpetual

Belle Isis
Gallica
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Belinda

Hybrid Musk

Black Boy bush

Old Clark Climber
1919
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Bloomfield Abundance

Floribunda

Blush Noisette

Noisette

Bon Silene

Tea

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Botzaris

Damask
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Bouquet Tout Fait

Noisette

Bourbon Queen

bourbon


Buff Beauty
Hybrid Musk
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Camaïeux Fimbriata

Gallica
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Captain Hayward

Hybrid Perpetual
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Celine Forestier bush
Noisette

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Celine Forestier
Noisette

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Cecile Brunner

polyantha
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Calocarpa
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Cardinal de Richelieu


Champion of the World

Hybrid Perpetual
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Charlotte Armstrong

Hybrid tea 1940

Chevy Chase bush

hybrid multiflora

Chromatella

noisette
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Chloris

alba

Complicata

gallica
with comment
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Cramosi Superior

china

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Crepuscle bush

Noisette
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Crepuscle

Noisette
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Comtesse du Cayla

china
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Cornelia

Hybrid Musk

Cornelia

Hybrid Musk

Dainty Bess

Hybrid Tea 1925

Danae

Hybrid Musk

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Donna Maria

Hybrid Sempevirens
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Dorothy Perkins

Hybrid Wichuriana

Duchesse de Brabant

Tea

Dupontii

Misc OGR 1817

Elizabeth of York

Hybrid Tea 1928

Ellen Willmott

Hybrid Tea 1936

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Elmshorn

hybrid musk

Emily Gray

L fl Climber 1918

ERfurt

Hybrid Musk


Euterpe

L fl climber 1937

Excellenz Von Schubert

Polyantha
with comment
Felicia
Felicia

Hybrid Musk

Fellenberg

China

Ferdinand Pichard

Hybrid Perpetual
old centifolia roses
Fantin-Latour

Centifolia
francesca-rose
Francesca rose

hybrid musk

Francesca buds 1

Hybrid Musk


Francesca buds 2

Hybrid Musk

 rose
Francois Guillot
Rugosa
Frau Dagmar Hastrup

Hybrid Rugosa
white rose picture
Frau Karl Druschki

frau-albert-hochstrasser
Frau Albert Hochstrasser

Hybrid Wichurana

Fritz Nobis

Shrub Kordes 1940

from Kauri Creek
Fruhlingsgold

Hybrid Spinosissima

Garisenda

Wichurana
from the Nancy Steen
General Schabilkine

Tea
Grandma's Rose
General MacArthur

Hybrid Tea 1905

General Jaqueminot

hybrid perpetual
from the Nancy Steen
General Gallieni

Tea

General Washington

hybrid perpetual

Gustav Grunerwald

Hybrid Tea 1903

Gruss an Aachen

Early Floribunda


Pink Gruss an Aachen

Early Floribunda


Ghislaine de Feligonde

Hybrid Multiflora

 hansa rose
Hansa

Hebe's Lip

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Hermosa

China <1837
striped Bourbon rose
Honorine de Brabant

Bourbon>
old gallica rose
probably not
Hippolyte

Ispahan

Damask

Indica Major

Shrub 1924

Jacques Cartier

Portland
 rose
Jeanne d'Arc

Jean Ducher

Tea

Jenny Duval

gallica/hybrid china

Katie's McNear HP

hybrid perpetual
Violaeca
La Belle Sultane

Gallica

La Reine

Hybrid Perpetual

La Marne

polyantha 1915
 damask rose
La Ville de Bruxelles

Damask

Lamarque _d5560
noisette

Lamarque
noisette
from Kauri Creek
Lady Hillingdon

Tea
from Sacramento
Lady Hillingdon

Tea

Lady Mary Fitzwilliam

Early Hybrid tea 1882
Hidcote hybrid foetida rose
Lawrence Johnston

Hybrid foetida
deep red china
Louis XIV

China

Le Pactole

Tea 1845

Lavender Lassie

Hybrid Musk

Old Hybrid Tea. The first?
La France

Hybrid Tea 1867
with viola companions
Little White Pet

polyantha


Lorraine Lee

Tea 1924

LouiseOdier

bourbon
polyantha roses
Marie Pavie

polyantha
shrub roses
Marjorie Fair

Shrub

Maman Cochet

Tea
shrub roses
Maigold

Shrub
Mt Hood
Mme Alfred Carriere

noisette

Mme Caroline Testout (Cl)

CL Hybrid Tea

Mme Caroline Testout

Hybrid Tea 1901
from Trinity Farm
Madame Alice Garnier

Hybrid Wichurana
rugosa rose
Mme Hardy

Damask

Mlle Franziska Kruger

Tea

Mrs Oakley Fisher

Hybrid Tea
from Kauri Creek
Mme Lombard

Tea

Mme Laurette Messimy

china

Mme Charles

Tea

Mme Ernst Calvat

Bourbon

Mrs BR Cant

Tea
polyantha
Mrs R.M. Finch

polyantha

Mrs RW Flight
from L'Haye les Roses Paris


sport of Mre Herbert Stevens
Mrs Herbert Stevens [cl]

Climbing Hybrid Tea

Mme Plantier

Alba

Mme Pierre Oger

Bourbon

Mermaid

Hybrid bracteata
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Miranda

damask perpetual

Multiflora de la Grifferaie

Hybrid Multiflora

Mons Tillier

Tea 1891

Mons Tillier

Tea 1891
from Trinity Farm
Mme Zoetmans

Damask
mutabilis
Mutabilis

china

New Dawn


hybrid Wichurana

Nymphenburg

Hybrid Musk
Numa Faye
Numa Faye

Hybrid Tea 1938

Nevada

Hybrid Moyesii

Nevada bush

Hybrid Moyesii
old roses
Omar Khayyám

damask

Paul Ricault

centiflolia
old tea rose picture
Papa Gontier

Tea 1883
old tea rose picture
Papa Gontier bush

Tea 1883
old rose
Paul Neyron

Hybrid Perpetual

Paul Transon

Hybrid Wichurana
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Pax

hybrid musk

Penelope

Hybrid Musk

Penelope

Hybrid Musk

Perle d'Or

polyantha

Phyllis Bide

Cl polyantha

Pinkie

polyantha
old pink rose
Pink Prosperity

Hybrid Musk
rose picture
Pink Grootendorst

Hybrid Rugosa

Pink Rosette

floribunda 1948

Prince Camille de Rohan

Hybrid Perpetual

Prosperity

Hybrid Musk
old roses
Old Blush

china

Poulsens Park Rose

shrub

Raubritter

Hybrid Macrantha

Reine des Violettes

hybrid perpetual

Renae

cl floribunda 1956

Reve d'Or
Noisette

Rhodoloque Jules Gravereaux

Tea

Robert Duncan

Hybrid Perpetual


Rosa Mundi

gallica
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Roseraie de l'Hay

Rosette Delizy

Tea

Rosa altaica

spinossissima
Yellow Lady Banks
R. banksiae lutea

Species 1824
with Jonty dog
R. banksia lutea bush



R.Banksia Lutescens


 rose picture
R.Banksia 'the Pearl'

R.foetida bicolor
with R foetida

Species
Austrian Yellow
R.foetida

Species 1542
Austrian Copper
R.foetida bicolor

Species pre 1590
Persian Yellow
R.foetida Persiana

Species
(multi pics)
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R.moyesii

rose hips
R. Moyesii Hips



R farreri persetosa


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R.damascena trigintipetela


R.multiflora

species
the-bamboo-rose
Multiflora Watsoniana

r.omeiensis-pteracantha
R.Omeiensis Pteracantha

r.omeiensis-pteracantha-thorns
R.Omeiensis Pteracantha thorns
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R. Rugosa Alba
rose hips
Rugosa Hips


rose images
R.richardii
Holy Rose

gallica


R.Webbiana

Species 1879
Sally Holmes rose
Sally Holmes rose

Hybrid Musk
with commentary and more pics.
tea rose
Safrano

tea

Sombreuil

with bee
Scabrosa

Hybrid Rugosa
Kauri Creek
Sarah Van Fleet

Hybrid Rugosa
seagull rose
Seagull

Hybrid wichuriana
 rose picture
Serratipetala

china

Stammler

Hybrid Perpetual


Stanwell Perpetual

Hybrid Spinosissima
fragrant roses
Sparrieshoop

Shrub

Souv de Mme Leonie Viennot

tea
souv-mme-leonie-viennot-bush
Souv Mme Leonie Viennot bush

tea
fragrant roses
Souvenir de la Malmaison

Bourbon
rugosa rose
Souv de Philemon Cochet

Hybtid Rugosa

Souvenir de St Anne's

Bourbon


Souvenir de Claudius Denoyel

Hybrid Tea


Souv d'un Ami


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Sunny South

Hybrid Tea 1918
 thousand rose
Tausendschon

hybrid multiflora

The Bishop

Centifolia

Thelma

with comment
Hybrid Wichurana
thisbe-rose
Thisbe 1

Hybrid Musk
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Thisbe (2)

Hybrid Musk
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Topaz Jewel
Hybrid Rugosa
deep maroon/purple gallica
Tuscany Superb

Gallica
the fairy
The Fairy

polyantha

Trier

hybrid Multiflora
old hybrid multiflora
Veilchenblau

Hybrid Multiflora

the green rose
Viridiflora

China


Wedding Day

Rambler

White Duchesse de Brabant

Tea
white roses
White Sparrieshoop

Shrub

White Maman Cochet

Tea
noisette
William Allen Richardson

noisette
Moss rose
William Lobb

Moss
species rose
R.xanthina

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York and Lancaster

damask

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Rolari Pink Rescue

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Old Roses
Ophelia rose. File#7735. Hybrid Tea 1912 .Photographer Susan.
Pictured at the Nancy Steen Rose Garden Auckland. NZ.

Ophelia
Early Hybrid Tea. 1912
Mrs Bosanquet. File#5666. Bourbon/China. Laffy 1832. Photographer Susan.
Pictured at the Nancy Steen Rose Garden Auckland. NZ.

Mrs-Bosanquet
Bourbon/China
Schneezwerg rose. File#7716. Hybrid Rugosa. Photographer Susan.
Pictured at the Nancy Steen Rose Garden Auckland. NZ.

Schneezwerg
Hybrid Rugosa. 1911
Hybrid Perpetual. Bred by Reverchon 1897. Photographer Susan.
Baron Girod de l'Ain

maybe not
Harison's yellow rose