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'Lady Fairbairn' rose References
Book  (5 Apr 2010)  
 
'Lady Fairbairn' HT, mp, 1929, Clark, A.; flowers bright pink, 40 petals; vigorous, upright growth. [Mme Abel Chatenay × seedling]. Introductions: NRS New South Wales
Book  (2010)  Page(s) 83.  
 
Lady Fairbairn was born Lorna Bessie Robertson on 1 April 1880……
Book  (30 Sep 1999)  Page(s) 11.  
 
Lady Fairbairn – 1929. Large Flowered Bush rose, double. Bright pink flowers. No longer available.
Magazine  (1997)  Page(s) 28. Vol 19, No. 1.  
 
Elizabeth & Andrew Govanstone. Portland, Vic. …..Friends, particularly, are the largest group of rose namesakes… Lady Fairbairn (1929) ….
Book  (1997)  Page(s) 215.  
 
I visited Banongill at the end of the season when little was in flower.....
Now Mrs. Philip Russell, known as Cissie Russell, was a great gardener and a friend of Alister. She had lived at Mawallok so was a close neighbour and friend of the Fairbairns. Alister had wanted to name a rose for her and she had expressed a strong preference for a dark red. She died in 1927, the year the rose was released, and Alister visited her, so the story goes, a couple of days before her death and told her about the rose he was naming for her. It is a charming story – perhaps no more than that. Certainly not admissable as evidence in a court of law. But if it is true, what more probable than that Cissie Russell's friends, the Fairbairns, should plant it in their new rose garden!
Newsletter  (1995)  Page(s) 17. Vol 4, No. 1.  
 
Lady Fairbairn. HT. 1929. Alister Clark. Mme. Abel Chatenay sdlg.
Book  (1990)  
 
p87. By the middle of August [1925?] he was in Scotland staying with George Fairbairn, one of the many Australian and New Zealand friends who were in Britain that year.

p120 Lady Fairbairn. Pink. 1929. Everbl. Bed.
Website/Catalog  (1979)  Page(s) 5. Vol 1, No. 3.  
 
Lady Fairbairn. 1929, intro NRS N.S.W. HT. Double bright pink, Vigorous upright. Mme. Abel Chatenay seedling.
Book  (1944)  Page(s) 32.  
 
Alister Clark. An Extraordinary Season. Of Glenara Seedings, amongst the most treasured are …. and Lady Fairbairn.
Website/Catalog  (1941)  Page(s) 5.  
 
Lady Fairbairn (H.T). Beautiful lively pink, well formed flowers, borne on stiff, upright stems. Growth compact. Lasts well when cut.
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