Jennifer Ebeling<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/December" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>December</span></a> 28, 1743<br /><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> John <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Champneys" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Champneys</span></a>, American <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Botanist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Botanist</span></a>, <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Horticulturist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Horticulturist</span></a>, &amp; <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Gardener" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gardener</span></a>, is born.</p><p>He crossed a Chinese Rosa chinensis and an <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Rosa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rosa</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/moschata" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>moschata</span></a> to create the first <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Hybrid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hybrid</span></a> rose - a hardy rose that <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Blooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Blooms</span></a> almost year-round - the Champney&#39;s <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Pink" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pink</span></a> Cluster Rose.</p><p>The gardener Philippe <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Noisette" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Noisette</span></a> took credit when he sent clippings to his brother in <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>France</span></a> &amp; called it the Rosa Noisettiana. Modern historians are setting the record straight.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Garden</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Charleston" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Charleston</span></a></p>