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La France|la frɑ̃s|
[Fr.]
An early type of hybrid tea rose, introduced in 1867, and bearing large, pink, scented flowers. Also attrib.
1868Floral Mag. VII. 399 La France has evidently a mixture of Tea and Bourbon blood in it. 1906Westm. Gaz. 11 Aug. 2/3 Roses red, roses yellow, roses white, roses of all known shades and varieties—fragrant La Frances, flaunting Jacqueminots, stately American Beauties. 1928[see Gloire de Dijon]. 1937F. B. Young Portrait of Village vi. 119 Its flowers are all old-fashioned and mostly sweet-scented:..moss-roses and silvery-pink La France. 1952‘M. Cost’ Hour Awaits 78 Fanchon, lovely as a La France rose, but English as Mayfair, was also leaning from her window. 1969V. C. Clinton-Baddeley Only Matter of Time 48 He wished so many of the old roses had not disappeared. When did you last see La France? 1973[see hybrid B. 1 b]. |