My favorite class of rose is Tea, a group of slowly growing roses when grown on their own roots, but there are exceptions;
My top 3 fastest growing Old Garden Tea Roses, each grown on their own roots:
Top 3 fastest growing Tea roses;
1A. ( a tie) Mrs. B.R. Cant ( 5 feet of growth, plus a couple inches in 2 and 1/2 years)
1B. Monsieur Tillier ( 5 feet of growth and a few inches, in 2 and 1/2 years) both of these are nearly as wide as they are tall.
Climbing 'Florence Bowers' Pink Tea' 4 feet , 9 inches tall, bought last spring as a band from vintagegardens.com before they closed (n.b I suspect she would be taller but she is crowded next to Mac.)

Other faster growing O.G.R.s:
Portland from Glendora; a beautiful rosebush, pretty leaves and lots of them, with sublime flowers that add rich cerise color to a garden of mostly pale and light colored Teas
Old Rose: cl. Kaiserin Auguste Viktora, 5 feet tall, it was a band sized plant in the spring of 2013.

Snail award for slowest growth: 'Le Pactole' but I still cherish it.
3 and 1/2 years old and almost 3 feet tall.
Marachal Niel took 3 years to grow to be 3 feet tall and then it died. I grieve.

If I were starting over I would buy as many Old Garden Teas on rootstock as I could find, alas they are hard to find.
I have an Alliance Franco-Russe on rootstock that I bought at this years Old Rose Celebration and have great hopes for it .

Thanks for all your help.
Lux.

That 'Alice Hamilton' we got from Vintage, right at the very end is already almost 4 ft. tall. And blooming, while it's growing. (It's supposed to be a Tea, but this looks like a China to me.)

I have a suspicion that "N 92 Nanjing" is going to do the same thing. (It also looks like a China.)

FWIW.

Ingrid

Jay

I really appreciate all your answers.
Lux.