Josiah Ryland's Rose

There is a small rose growing in the shade beside an ornate iron fence in Section B at Hollywood Cemetery.  I have visited it many times, but I have never seen a flower on it ... till last month.

This flower is not much to look at, definitely past peak and a bit tattered, but it's a beautiful flower to me.  

Timing was perfect and the plant was in good enough condition to allow me to carefully snip five cuttings ... to try to propagate it, preserve it, and possibly determine which rose it is.

I checked on the cuttings this morning and I saw a root!!

More roots!!

Whatever this rose is, it rooted VERY quickly.  All five cuttings are in this container, planted on May 19, and multiple roots are visible on the side and bottom of the container three weeks later, today, June 9.  (Six to eight weeks, maybe longer, is more typical.)

These roots hold the promise of plants that represent the opportunity for me to grow Josiah Ryland's rose under more favorable conditions than it has at the cemetery, to share it with others, and (fingers crossed) to figure out which rose this is.

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