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Book (2001) Page(s) 111. Myrtle Robertson. Bellingen, NSW. My best seedling was a cross between ‘Queen Elizabeth’ and ‘Variegata di Bologna’. I named it ‘Montrose’ after the property of the lady who gave me ‘Variegata di Bologna’. It was rosy pink with purple stripes and a perfume, but only bloomed in the spring. Marguerite [Parkes] took budwood and I took cuttings but we didn’t succeed with either. When visiting East Maitland, the minister invited me home for morning tea. He told me they had dug up my roses so that his sons could have a cricket pitch, so good-bye ‘Montrose’.
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