Baronne Prèvost
- Classification: Hybrid Perpetual
- Flower Color: medium pink
- Flower Size: 4 inches
- Flower Form: flat, fully double, quartered
- Petal Count: 40 plus
- Fragrance: moderate damask fragrance
- Repeat Bloomer: yes
- Foliage: wavy, ruffled foliage
- Plant Height: 4-5 feet
- Plant Width: 3-4 feet
- Growth Habit: upright
- Disease Resistant: no
- Hybridizer: Jean Desprez (France, 1841)
- Registered: 1842
- Parentage: unknown
- ARS* Rating: 8.5 (a very good to excellent rose)
*American Rose Society Rating
Awards:
- None
Notes:
- “Portland roses, hybrid Chinas, gallicas and Bourbons, all of which have old garden roses in their ancestry, contributed to the development of a rose, the hybrid perpetual, that became the rage in the nineteenth century. Often referred to as Victorian Roses, hybrid perpetuals are very hardy shrubs that bear large, extremely fragrant, many-petaled flowers on short stems. Their name is a bit deceptive, as they don’t always bloom continually all season long…The flowers of the hybrid perpetuals grow upright, which made them ideal for display in the popular nineteenth-century flower shows, where they were displayed like works of art in “English boxes”: their short stems were fitted into holes so that only their enormous blossoms showed…Baronne Prèvost is one of the oldest hybrid perpetuals still in commerce.” --- Stephen Scanniello & Tania Bayard, (Roses of America, pages 81, 82).