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David Charles Henshaw Austin OBE (born 16 February 1926) is a rose breeder and writer who lives in Shropshire, England. His emphasis is on breeding roses with the character and fragrance of old garden roses (such as gallicas, damasks and alba roses) but with the repeat-flowering ability and wide colour range of modern roses such as hybrid teas and floribundas. ==Career== Austin's first commercially available rose, 'Constance Spry', was introduced in 1961. In 1967 and 1968 he introduced 'Chianti' and 'Shropshire Lass' respectively. Although these first roses bloomed only once in spring or early summer, they led, in 1969, to a series of remontant (repeat-flowering) varieties, including 'Wife of Bath' and 'Canterbury' (both in honour of the English author Geoffrey Chaucer). Austin's roses soon became the most successful group of new roses in the twentieth century. Though Austin's roses are not officially recognised as a separate class of roses by, for instance, the Royal National Rose Society or the American Rose Society,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ars.org/ )〕 they are nonetheless commonly referred to by rosarians, at nurseries, and in horticultural literature as 'English Roses' (the term he uses) or 'Austin Roses'. Since its founding in 1969, he and his firm David Austin Roses in Albrighton, near Wolverhampton, have introduced over 190 rose cultivars. Cultivars have been named in honour of his family, well-known rosarians, geographical landmarks in Britain, historical events, and British writers, particularly Shakespeare and Chaucer, and their works or characters. For instance, roses have honoured such diverse entities as the rosarian and artist Graham Thomas and King Henry VIII's flagship, the Mary Rose. In the twenty-first century, Austin separated his roses into four groups as a guide to further developments. The four groups are: * the Old Rose Hybrids, roses with the appearance of the Old Roses but recurrent, healthy and with a wide range of colours * the Leander Group, often with ''Rosa wichurana'' in their breeding, with larger bushes and arching growth tending to make them pillar or low climbing roses * the English Musk Roses, based on 'Iceberg' and the Noisette roses, with pale green, slender and airy growth. The musk rose scent is missing from most, though other scents are present in many. * the English Alba Hybrids, with tall, rather blue-leaved bushes like the old Alba roses. In 2003, David Austin was awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour by the Royal Horticultural Society for his services to horticulture〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="David Austin English Roses" ICONS a Portrait of England )〕 and the Dean Hole Medal from the Royal National Rose Society. He has received an Honorary MSc from the University of East London for his work on rose breeding.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Plant Hunters, Plant People, Garden Designers, Landscape Architects of Note from )〕 He received the lifetime achievement award from the Garden Centre Association in 2004 and was awarded an OBE in 2007.〔 In 2010, he was named a "Great Rosarian of the World".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=David Austin 2010 "Great Rosarian" )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David C.H. Austin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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