This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V25", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
Journal des Roses says this was raised by a passionate rose-lover, Mons. de Beauregard, of Angers, France, a retired officer and chevalier of the Legion of Honor. It was raised from the old yellow tea rose in 1839. It is, says the journal from which we quote, the most popular of all tea roses in France, "honored alike by the sumptuous dweller under a mansard roof, as well as by the poorest of the poor." Madam Falcot receives great praise from the same paper as a good old rose.

New tea rose "ANDRE SCHWARTZ" the "TRUE TEA JACK".
 
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