PlantFiles: Old Garden Rose
Rosa 'Queen of Denmark'

I may be wrong but this looks like it belongs to the class of Bourbon roses. Here's a website with a picture that looks very close to the rose your showing: http://www.antiqueroseemporium.com/roses/606/madame-ernest-c...
Please check this out and let me know!

Thanks:

Dale

We had this rose out in the countryside where it grew profusely year after year without any real care. Very fragrant blooms. After moving into town many years later, I found the rose growing by a roadside and took a couple cuttings one August to propagate. Now have a healthy stand of this old companion from which I gather fresh blooms for drying.
I didn't know of any specific name for this rose. I've called it a "cabbage" rose. The dried petals are intensely fragrant and can be blended with a neutral black tea for Rose Petal Tea if one is a tea drinker.
Having enjoyed the company of this particular rose for nearly fifty years, I might conclude that it's a keeper!

Bred in Denmark. Won the Dowager Rose Queen four times in 1999, and 2000.

Parentage:
Seed: Maiden's Blush
Pollen: Unknown

It appears that there are two roses of the same name, developed by two different growers, introduced at about the same time. One has been identified in the literature as an alba, the other a damask. The one I am familiar with, found growing in many old gardens and cemeteries in the Central New York area is the damask.

Recently I attempted to acquire one to grow in our garden like the ones I have seen over the past 50 years - and like the one growing in the Mills Rose Garden in Syracuse, NY. Not knowing at the time I ordered that there are two roses with the same name, I got the alba.

Maybe I will do some collecting from local sites this year.