La Francen.
/la ˈfrɒ̃s/, U.S. /læ ˈfrɑ̃s/ An early type of hybrid tea rose, introduced in 1867, and bearing large, pink, scented flowers. Also attributive.
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1868 Floral Mag. VII. 399 La France has evidently a mixture of Tea and Bourbon blood in it.
1906 Westm. 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 J. Galsworthy Swan Song i. xiii. 102 He took up a rose and sniffed at it deeply. So many different kinds now—he had lost track! In his young days one could tell them—La France, Maréchal Niel, and Gloire de Dijon—nothing else to speak of.
1937 F. 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.
1969 V. 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 Rose Ann. 37 The first of the new race to bear the characteristics of the hybrid tea was ‘Victor Verdier’ (1859), although some may claim that ‘La France’ (1867) was the first true hybrid tea rose.
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