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"Hugh Childs" rose References
Magazine  (2012)  Page(s) Vol 34, No. 4.  
 
p 30.  Margaret Furness.  Renmark:  Looking Back,.
....there are ongoing discussions about "Hugh Childs" [which] turn up as foundlings over and over again.

p61.  Margaret Furness.  Update on Some Roses.
"Hugh Childs" (photo 33-4-3) is the same as "Bonnie Doone Cemetery", "Mrs. Gibbs Red"; "Meadows Wesleyan", "John Welsh" (Harrow) and probably "Birdwood".  John N.[iewesteeg] has found it in other sites in Victoria.
Magazine  (2011)  Page(s) 2 & 3. Vol 33, No. 4.  Includes photo(s).
 
Photo Gallery:  Some Spring Flowering Foundlings.
Probably Hybrid China, collected by Jack Sampson.  Photographed in the late Brenda Weir's garden during the Hay Conference.  Lost in the drought;  does anyone still have it? 

"Bonnie Doone Cemetery", collected Vic.  Pinker than the photo shows.

"Hugh Childs", collected from Adelaide Hills and western Victoria.  Semi-climbing, very prickly, suckering; not one to let loose on its own roots.  Possibly Hybrid China.  Sets a good crop of orange hips.

Birdwood", a common foundling in the Adelaide Hills, said to be the oldest rose in Hahndorf.  The colour hasn't converted well;  it is like 'Mme. Isaac Pereire' with a metallic-purple rim.  Semi-climbing, very prickly, suckering.
Magazine  (2007)  Page(s) 29. Vol 29, No. 3.  
 
Margaret Furness.  Some Roses in South Australia Through Californian Eyes.
....It is of interest that the visitors hadn't seen some of the foundlings in our gardens before..... "Hugh Childs Grave Rose", "Birdwood Transport Depot" and.... 
 
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