This is a bud on the plant of ‘Ruhm von Steinfurth’ that was passed to me from the Study Plot at The Huntington, and the flower it became:
The form is interesting, but the color is perhaps more important. (If you have a browser that supports the Adobe RGB color space, you may get a slightly better idea of the color from this image.) If you look up this rose on HelpMeFind, you will notice that the first four pictures are seriously pink; unfortunately, the Modern Roses description clearly gives the color as “MR”, which lets them out. (The other two have very different form from mine, which is another issue entirely.) The flowers, btw, have a very nice and rather pronounced fragrance.
Here are some other views of the plant. Notice the single extra-long sepal that develops on each bud as it swells (in this set, it is most easily visible in the second photo), and the peculiar “onion-dome” shape of the bud, which could be helpful in the process of identifying the plant, if it matches the characters of the parents. (These are often listed as ‘Frau Karl Druschki’ and ‘Ulrich Brunner Fils’, but see below for better information.) If we can believe the drawing on this page, the long sepal could easily come from Druschki. I am far less certain about the bud shape; when I look for images of Ulrich Brunner on the Web I find about 6 or 8 different roses, and almost none of the photos show buds. Argh.) ‘Ruhm von Steinfurth’ is apparently also known as ‘Red Druschki’ according to a number of sources, and it certainly seems unlikely to me that a pale-pink flower would be described that way. (Again, see the information added on April 14th.)
The two photos on the left above were taken with a Canon G3;
the white balance setting was Cloudy, which was appropriate.
The two on the right were taken with a Sony DSC-R1, operating
in sRGB color space; it was a partly cloudy day, and I let the
camera white balance automatically. If you click any of the
small images, you will get a large one that is 1280 pixels high.
The photos below were taken with the Sony.
Here are more photos of the flowers, and another view of the extended sepal on a bud...
For comparison, here are some buds on a plant of ‘Indigo’; there is a long sepal, but it is not as pronounced, nor as wide.
(14 April, 2007)
Behcet Fenercioglu has kindly provided the following information:
“...the correct name is ‘Ruhm von Steinfurth’ without the umlaut. Glory of Steinfurth refers to the town of Steinfurth near Bad Nauheim in Germany where even today many rose nurseries (such as Schultheis, Rosen-Union, Ruf, Weihrauch) are located.”
“Now for some earlier descriptions:”
Rosenlexikon, Jäger, 1936:
Steinfurth, Ruhm von (HP) Weigand 1920; Druschki X G. MacArthur; cherry-red to geranium-red, lasting, very large, 3/4-full, cup-form, solitary or up to 3, fragrance 7/10, floriferous, repeats, good autumn bloomer, very long buds, long & strong stems, few thorns, growth 7/10, upright, hardy, exists at Sangerhausen
Peter Lambert’s catalogue, 1938:
“Ruhm von Steinfurth (Weigand-Schultheis 20) Strong growth, upright, bud is elongated up to 9cm long; colour geranium-cherry-red, semi-double, very large (Druschki-family)”
M. Leenders, Rozen-Catalogus, 1923:
“Ruhm von Steinfurth (Schultheis 1920). Cherry- and geranium-red. (Druschki X Mac Arthur)”
He adds:
“The colour should definitely be red. The elongated bud is mentioned. The pollen parent seems to be ‘General MacArthur’l, not ‘Ulrich Brunner fils’ (I do not know where MR has that information from). The varying information on breeder means that while Weigand bred the rose, it was introduced by Schultheis (in Steinfurth!).”
Behcet later provided this information:
“The earliest reference, which I am quoting from the Old Rose Advisor, is from the American Rose Annual 1922, p. 154-5:
“Bud very large, long-pointed; flower very large, full, double, cupped, lasting; pure red, does not ‘blue’; borne, singly and several together, on long, strong stems; strong fragrance. Foliage abundant, large...glossy... Few thorns. Very vigorous, upright; blooms profusely in June and July and in September and October.”
...and American Rose Annual 1934, p.79:
“Bright red... very healthy...produces fine, fragrant blooms profusely and to a lesser extent in fall.”
My plant does blue, to some extent; here is an old flower next to a new one:
It also has more thorns than I would expect from the
descriptions above. Perhaps it isn’t ‘Ruhm
von Steinfurth’, but it is certainly a lovely
rose with a fine fragrance, one way or the other.
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Last modified: Wed Apr 18 20:44:28 EDT 2007
