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The Australian Garden Lover
(1931) Page(s) 83. ‘Amy Johnson’, HT. (Alister Clark). This beautiful Rose is named after the great lady flyer, to commemorate her landing in Australia. It is a very vigorous, healthy grower, with good foliage and sweetly-scented flowers of a lovely shade of pink, the large blooms are produced continuously right into winter. It can be grown as a pillar or bush rose.
(1976) Page(s) 10. 1975 Releases H.T. Bush. Apricot Delight (Delbard): Very attractive colouring of apricot flushed rich dark apricot. Very typical of ripening apricots. Double blooms on strong stems and fragrant.
(1976) Page(s) 10. Big Red: Excellent grower with bright red 50 petalled blooms.
(1976) Page(s) 10. Black Beauty: Dark blackish red medium sized flowers, several to a stem.
(1 Oct 1931) J. Horace McFarland. Among the Roses. I should earlier have mentioned 'Black Boy', which is another in this same group, and which gave me a great thrill as I saw it first open in California this year. There it is easily the best dark-red climbing Rose. In the fall of 1930 it bloomed again at Breeze Hill, and with flowers of almost the blackness that is a proper dream of 'Chateau de Clos Vougeot'.
(1 Sep 1930) Page(s) 200. Harry Hazlewood. Rose Novelties of 1929. ‘Busybody’ was raised by Mr. Alister Clark and supplies a long wanted color with hardy foliage. The colors are most variable and include orange and brick-red shades which are at their best in autumn and winter. Growers who appreciate ‘Beaute Inconstant’ will find in ‘Busybody’ a variety of easier growth and almost as varied a range of color.
(1976) Page(s) 10. Carlita: Very long stems with elegant buds of vogue pink...
(1976) Page(s) 10. Cordelia: Highly scented blooms of pink suffused creamy yellow.
(1 Jun 1930) Page(s) 98. Harry Hazlewood. Treasure Hunting for Better Roses. So far the outstanding treasures have been of American origin, but the next find is from an English source. In that country there is a daily paper with a huge circulation which seeks to aid various worthy objects by awarding prizes. One of these prizes is the Daily Mail Cup for the best scented Rose in the novelty class. In 1928 this was awarded to the firm of W. B. Archer and Daughter and, in accordance with the terms of the prize (a cup value 250 pounds), the variety has been called Daily Mail Scented. In the past there have been richly colored red Roses, but none quite so brilliant and vigorous as the variety under discussion. 'Daily Mail Scented' bids fair to eclipse 'Hawlmark Crimson', 'Elizabeth Cullen', 'Lady Worthington Evans' and some even include 'Etoile de Hollande'. Fragrance is not its strongest point, however, for it must give way in this respect to color. Still, it is fragrant, but in this respect 'Etoile de Hollande' still reigns supreme.
(1 Sep 1930) Page(s) 199. Harry H. Hazlewood. Rose Novelties of 1929. David Dodd - An American variety of excellence, which suffers from one fault, and that is its similarity to 'E. G. Hill', sent out the same year. There are times when the large rich crimson flowers are almost identical, but at other times 'David Dodd' appears to have a richer fragrance. Both are very large and full, and inclined to open rather flat, but when taken in hand by exhibition growers are capable of great things.
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