(1950)  Page(s) 28.  
 
Yet a final half-dozen to be hung on the line in the ‘gallica’ room must be recorded among our particular fancies. These include R. gallica complicata, a robust bush indicating by its broad foliage some hybrid ancestry and bearing, one or two at a time, in clusters, four-inch single flowers in a clear bright rose – a shrub of the highest merit, bearing, I feel sure, some connection in origin with the old ‘macrantha’ (q.v.)

(1950)  Page(s) 60.  
 
to the front of it we have the bush-like ’Fontin Latour’, with a splendid foliage and equally impressive blossoms – large and flat and a bright rose pink – a rose I find it difficult to classify (Syn. ‘Rose des Peintres)….

(1950)  Page(s) 33.  
 
Commandant Beaurepaire should, as I have suggested, be included here, as well as Gros Provins and Honorine Brabant (see under Gallica).

(1950)  Page(s) 27.  
 
Of others in our collection, the madder-mauve and White Camaieux is one of the best, but it is not true 'gallica', and then there is the splashed and freckled Gros Provins and one we have labelled Honorine de Brabant, which is very much like the last, in its thin Bourbon foliage as well as flower. But this trio are not yet established, having only just been received from good friends who, like ourselves, keep an ever alert

(1950)  Page(s) 30.  
 
Thus there is lovely 'Lady Curzon', by some put among the 'gallicas' by others among the Damasks, while to the average observer she possesses scarce a hint as to her connection with either group. As a matter of history, 'Lady Curzon', raised by George Lilley, foreman at Turner's Nursery, Slough, is a 'rugosa' hybrid, the seed parent being R. rugosa var. rubra, the other being in doubt. And that took place less than fifty years ago.

(1950)  Page(s) 44.  
 
Of these pocket editions of Provence and Moss Roses one of the most delightful here is 'Little Gem', its bright rosy-cerise well swaddled in moss.

(1950)  Page(s) 44.  
 
The deep rose 'De Meaux' and the same in white are irresistible unmossed varieties, their buttony flowers very double and fragrant and held more erect than those of most of their taller sisters. These, however, have not been altogether a success with us.....

(1950)  Page(s) 39.  
 
Yet another thicket rose which should be included with the Burnets is one we got from Daisy Hill in the old days of that famous nursery. This came in labelled 'Mrs. Colville', and Mr. Mulligan is of the opinion it is an alpina x spinosissima hybrid, ...

(1950)  Page(s) 19.  
 
Whether we have yet seen the actual wild rose whence all these China varieties have arisen is still in doubt. I have no mandate to question authority, but it is hard for us to believe that the ‘large climbing shrub’, bearing solitary flowers, found by Henry near Ichang has any parental claim upon our garden Chinas with their dwarf habit and invariably panicled blooms. Rather do I prefer to play with the fancy that it is Rosa chinensis var. Miss Lowe which is the mother of the family.

(1950)  Page(s) 21.  
 
But there is still one other China which I need to apologise for placing among the side-shows and that is serratipetala. Of its history I am profoundly ignorant, but it is one of the worthiest of its worthy household, a non-stop bloomer and the deep rose-carmine shaggy flowers have an outer wreath of crimson petals, the margins of which are the most deeply cut....