Roses located at 6th and Pine, across the street from the Elko County Rose Garden, 'Apothecary's Rose', also ' Rosa gallica officinalis' and 'Red Rose of Landcaster', Gallica, 12th century or earlier, one mid-summer bloom period, intense fragrance. Possibly the oldest rose to be cultured in Europe. The red colours of Old European roses derive almost exclusively from this variety, which explains their purple cast. Betty Prior was a member of the raiser's family at their nursery near Colchester in Essex. The plant will grow anywhere, resisting cold, heat, disease and unskilled gardeners, to give abundant flowers right through the season.
Few roses are easier to grow.
After Joseph Pemberton's death in 1926, Ann and J.A. Bentall continued producing Hybrid Musks. Bonica '82' is the first shrub rose ever to receive an All-American Rose selection, 1987. It is not partial to Elko's climate, but I really like the color, so it stays. Champlain was a French explorer, colonizer and first governor of French Canada. He discovered the lake that bears his name.