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Streisand politely declined to comment for this story, but Dan Bifano, a master rosarian and longtime gardener to Streisand, Oprah and other famous folk, believes a rose’s name “is always of utmost importance; it makes the rose salable or unsalable, and anytime a rose is connected to a celebrity, it’s going to pick up the sales.”

He also happens to be a rose expert — a “rosarian” — teaching classes at Molbak’s Garden + Home.

“What David Austin has done beautifully is take that old-fashioned flower form and the fragrance and turned it into a modern, repeat-blooming shrub,” said Peter Kukielski, a rosarian and a former curator at the New York Botanical Garden.

“George Thomas was a rosarian, and his passion was growing hybrid roses,” said John Chulick, who co-chairs the club’s U.S.

To this aim, Forestier called on the leading rosarian of the day, Jules Gravereaux, a former executive at the Bon Marché department store who had designed Europe’s first modern roseraie, or rose garden, at his country house in a village south of Paris known today as L’Haÿ-les-Roses.