Roseraie de La Cour de Commer
In 1998, the Conservatoire français des Collections Végétales Spécialisées (The French academy for the specialized plants collection) named this collection as the National Collection. It includes the totality of the 300 rosa gallicas presently in the culture. The choice of the old varieties which constitute the Collection of the Cour de Commer does not result from aesthetic considerations.
Its primary purpose is the conservation of these roses: the varieties introduced each year into the Collection are in priority of French origin and threatened of extinction.
Those, which have disappeared from France, are systematically reintroduced.
Priority
is also given to the non-repeating varieties, today less appraised,
therefore less cultivated and more threatened. The Gallicas collection thanks to the cooperation of a French university laboratory, is the subject of a systematic analysis of DNA.
Around
the collection has been created the Rosa Gallica Society which main
objective is to promote the study of the old roses of French Origin. The catalogue of gallica collection has been published in 1998 by the Imprimerie Nationale under the title the "La Rose de France".
The
Collection is visited during all June, everyday,
Roseraie
de la Cour de Commer
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This
collection was created in 1992, at the Cour of Commer France. It is an
exceptional collection of old roses which includes currently approximately
1 300 roses.
