Looking Forward Looking Back

by Beverley Harper Tinsley

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$85

Dimensions

7.000 x 5.000 inches

Title

Looking Forward Looking Back

Artist

Beverley Harper Tinsley

Medium

Painting - Watercolor And Graphite

Description

Summery, nostalgic pink and gold roses in an atmosphere of turquoise and blue. I painted these Peace roses while sitting on my front porch.
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Glowing in the sunlight, these Peace roses radiate a delightful scent. Prints of this painting make a sweetl gift!
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Here's some wonderful backstory on the Peace variety of rose, courtesy of wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Peace
"The Peace rose, correctly Rosa 'Madame A. Meilland', is a well-known and successful garden rose. By 1992, over one hundred million plants of this hybrid tea had been sold. The cultivar has large flowers of a light yellow to cream color, slightly flushed at the petal edges with crimson-pink. It is hardy and vigorous and relatively resistant to disease, making it popular in gardens as well as in the floral trade.
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It was developed by French horticulturist Francis Meilland in the years 1935 to 1939. When Meilland foresaw the German invasion of France, he sent cuttings to friends in Italy, Turkey, Germany, and the United States to protect the new rose. It is said that it was sent to the US on the last plane available before the German invasion where it was safely propagated by the Conard Pyle Co. during the war.[1]
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Because Meilland had sent out his cuttings just before the war, communication between the cultivators was not possible, which is why the rose received different names. In France, Francis and Alain Meilland decided to call the cultivar 'Madame A. Meilland', in honor of Francis' deceased mother, Alain Meilland's wife Claudia.[2] This is the formal cultivar name. Other names are considered by the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants as trade or selling names. In Italy it was called Gioia (It. for "joy"), in Germany Gloria Dei (lat. for "glory of God") and in the USA, Sweden and Norway Peace.
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The rose became known as Peace in the following way. In early 1945 rose grower Meilland wrote to Field Marshal Alan Brooke (later Viscount Alanbrooke), the principal author of the master strategy that won the Second World War, to thank him for his key part in the liberation of France and to ask if Brooke would give his name to the rose. Brooke declined saying that, though he was honored to be asked, his name would soon be forgotten and a much better and more enduring name would be "Peace".
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The adoption of the trade name "Peace" was publicly announced in the United States on 29 April 1945 by the introducers, Messrs Conard Pyle Co. This was the very day that Berlin fell, a day considered a turning point in the Second World War in Europe.[1] Later that year Peace roses were given to each of the delegations at the inaugural meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco, each with a note which read:
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"We hope the 'Peace' rose will influence men’s thoughts for everlasting world peace".
Peter Beales, English rose grower and expert, said in his book Roses:
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"'Peace', without doubt, is the finest Hybrid Tea ever raised and it will remain a standard variety forever"."

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