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| colour: Strong Pink | ||||
| height: Average Shrub 2.5 - 5 feet (0.75 m - 1.5 m) | ||||
| scent: Good or wonderful old rose scent | ||||
| introduction: 1826 - 1850 | ||||
| usda zone: Zone 5 (-22ºC/-7.6ºF to -27ºC/-16.6ºF) | ||||
| flowers: Fully Double | ||||
| repeat: Repeat Flowering | ||||
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A Bourbon rose introduced by Jean Laffay in 1835. Medium size, bright pink quartered, very double flowers, well scented, a low branching bush, some repeat blooming in autumn. Named for the officer who served in Napoleon’s army in Spain and Italy, Jean Victor Allard. This is a parent rose of the earliest Hybrid Perpetuals. Photographed in the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden in California by Bill Grant. | ||||
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