(10 Nov 1934) Page(s) 41.
Newer Roses. At the monthly meeting of the society on November 1..... Mr. James Allan, the president, said that Mr. Clark has promised a new variety ‘Advance Australia’, to the National Rose society, but will not finally release the rose until sure that it will flower through spring, summer, and autumn. The variety is red, somewhat like Etoile de Hollande’.
(4 Nov 1893) Page(s) 10.
Notes From Other Lands.
Rose Archiduchesse Marie Immaculata (a badly-named variety) is described as a fine " tea " variety, sent out in l887, having a colour almost indescribable, being an admixture of coppery and metallic red hues such as are found in "L'Ideal', only the flower is larger, fuller, and has a bold appearance.
(22 Apr 1922) Page(s) 9.
In Mr. Alister Clark’s exhibit of seedling roses, beautiful blooms of ‘Gwen Nash’ and ‘Australia Felix’ were shown. The latter variety has not met with the popularity it deserves, mostly because growers will not have patience to keep it going until well established. It does not do itself justice within the first one or two years, but is invaluable for winter blooming, and Mr. Clark has decorated a banquet hall with it in June.
(28 May 1938) Page(s) 38.
In a choice of varieties for bedding, where perhaps a dozen roses of one variety are planted, the natural shape of the bush should have consideration as well as the colour and quality of the flowers. .... Australia Felix is another ideal bedding rose, not valued nearly as highly as it should be in gardens; pink on a white base, the flowers are borne over eight to ten months of the year.
(9 Jul 1927) Page(s) 17.
The list of 12 climbing roses published last week among the roses recommended by the National Rose Society of Victoria represents the leading varieties suitable for growing on pergolas, fences, arches, summer-houses, and on the walls of one story houses. ‘Black Boy’ and ‘Marion Manifold’, the first two roses on the list are both red roses, and are both Australian raised....... ‘Black Boy’ was raised by Mr. Alister Clark and sent out in 1919. It seems to be improving in vigour and constitution with the years. Like ‘Miss Marion Manifold’ it may be planted in positions where its strong-growing tendencies can have free play, and will succeed in all soils and under hot conditions. Like most of the hybrid tea roses, the largest percentage of blooms are carried through the spring and autumn, but even in January blooms may be gathered freely from a well-grown plant.
(28 May 1938) Page(s) 38.
Or let us consider roses of greater size, roses with landscape value. There are the three Banksian roses, Banksia alba, B. Fortunei, and Banksia lutea; alba is pure white, lutea yellow, and Fortunei a large white flower, distinct from alba. How fortunate we are that these fine old roses, natives of China, will thrive to perfection in our climate.
They will grow through and over a tree 40 feet in height, but must not be planted at the base of the tree, where the soil has been robbed of its value and rain cannot reach the roots. Rather plant 14 to 15 feet away from the trunk in well enriched soil, then, as the rose grows, train the strong branches over towards the tree on supports. As soon as the strong supporting trunk of the tree is sensed by the plant, it will do the rest. Some of Mr. Alister Clark's climbing roses are nearly as vigorous growing, notably Courier, double, pink on a white ground; and Traverser, so called because it spread a distance of 40 feet along trellis supports in Mr. Clark's garden at Bulla, Victoria. The flowers, yellow and cream, are double, and very freely borne in spring. Tonner's Fancy is of the same type, the buds, somewhat resembling those of Maman Cochet in shape, full, the colour delicate cream, turning to white. Cherub, by the same raiser, if given support, will rise and make a large bush up to 20 or 25 feet high. Grown through a mature pear tree in Mr. Clark's garden, in a few years the pear tree was completely lost to view. The main sheet of salmon-pink flowers is borne in spring, followed by a more limited flowering in autumn.
(28 May 1938) Page(s) 38.
Or let us consider roses of greater size, roses with landscape value. There are the three Banksian roses, Banksia alba, B. Fortunei, and Banksia lutea; alba is pure white, lutea yellow, and Fortunei a large white flower, distinct from alba. How fortunate we are that these fine old roses, natives of China, will thrive to perfection in our climate.
They will grow through and over a tree 40 feet in height, but must not be planted at the base of the tree, where the soil has been robbed of its value and rain cannot reach the roots. Rather plant 14 to 15 feet away from the trunk in well enriched soil, then, as the rose grows, train the strong branches over towards the tree on supports. As soon as the strong supporting trunk of the tree is sensed by the plant, it will do the rest. Some of Mr. Alister Clark's climbing roses are nearly as vigorous growing, notably Courier, double, pink on a white ground; and Traverser, so called because it spread a distance of 40 feet along trellis supports in Mr. Clark's garden at Bulla, Victoria. The flowers, yellow and cream, are double, and very freely borne in spring. Tonner's Fancy is of the same type, the buds, somewhat resembling those of Maman Cochet in shape, full, the colour delicate cream, turning to white. Cherub, by the same raiser, if given support, will rise and make a large bush up to 20 or 25 feet high. Grown through a mature pear tree in Mr. Clark's garden, in a few years the pear tree was completely lost to view. The main sheet of salmon-pink flowers is borne in spring, followed by a more limited flowering in autumn.
(1894)
From the following website: http://localhistory.kingston.vic.gov.au/htm/article/223.htm
1894. December. The Australasian [ From Rose Growing during the Land Boom in Mentone, by Helen Botham] ]
He presented some of his new roses to the Governor of Victoria, the Earl of Hopetoun, in 1889, and named one of them after him. The Earl of Hopetoun rose was later to be the cause of some controversy. In The Australasian, December 1, 1894, Mr Johnson wrote from Rose-villa, Como-parade, Mentone, that ‘the rose sent out by someone, and is now causing so much disappointment, is not the Earl of Hopetoun that I raised and obtained His Excellency’s permission to name as above in 1889.’
J. Burton, Woodrow Nursery, Heidelberg, claimed that he had named one of his roses the Earl of Hopetoun, and he was ‘surprised and pained to have my honour questioned by Mr T. Johnson of Mentone.’ [8]
1895, June 8., page 13. The Leader, [ From Rose Growing during the Land Boom in Mentone, by Helen Botham]
Undaunted, Johnson included Earl of Hopetoun in his catalogue of new seedling roses of his own raising for 1895. [9].
(28 May 1938) Page(s) 38.
In a choice of varieties for bedding, where perhaps a dozen roses of one variety are planted, the natural shape of the bush should have consideration as well as the colour and quality of the flowers. For example, Sunny South is too large to use as a bedding rose. Etoile de Hollande, one of the loveliest and sweetest smelling roses in the garden, as well as being among the hardiest and most free-flowering, is an unshapely plant as a bedding rose. The strong water-shoots push out at any angle, and the plant is usually lopsided.
(4 Nov 1893) Page(s) 10.
Notes From Other Lands.
The remark in Brunning's catalogue that the rose Gloire de Lyonnaise, which is classed as a hybrid perpetual, in form of flower and fragrance resembles a tea rose, is more than justified by its pedigree. 'Gloire Lyonnaise,' remarks the Garden, "raised by Guillot et Fils in 1884, was the result of crossing H.P. 'Baroness Rothschild' with tea 'Mme. Falcot'. The issue of this was crossed with the latter again, and the result crossed a third time, so that we see there is very little of the hybrid perpetual blood left in it." And yet its influence may be discovered in the vigorous growth of the Baroness, for 'Gloire Lyonnaise', makes shoots from 6ft. to 13ft. long in a season, and neither of the parents are climbing roses!
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