Magazine  (2002)  Page(s) Vol 24, No., 1.  
 
p6 Barbara May & Peter Cox: The reason for the comprehensive description of the rose
[on an 1897 Rookwood grave…. “Isabel Smith”] is that this could be one of John Bidwill’s roses from 1845 – Imogen or ..... His two roses are recorded in 1860, are still selling well and described as ‘Mr. Bidwill’s cluster flowered roses’. This would mean that they were in all probability China roses.

p7. ….We may be able to remember him [John Bidwill] through a rose that we call Isabel Smith, which could be either his Imogen or ....

Book  (1999)  
 
1999. Peter Cox “Australian Roses”
p.x The first recorded roses to be hybridised in the colony were Mr.Bidwell’s ‘Imogen’ and .... listed in 1845. These two roses were still available in the 1860s, then being described as ‘Mr. Bidwell’s Cluster Roses’. These two roses were cultivars of Rosa chinensis but are lost to us today and we do not have any descriptions. {3}

References: [3] Richard Clough, File Note on Old Parliament House Rose Garden Reconstruction, Canberra, August, 1995.

p6. Mr. Bidwell, New South Wales. As stated earlier, we have no information about Mr. Bidwell.
‘Imogen’ and ..., 1845. Cluster flowered bush roses. No longer available.

Magazine  (1998)  Page(s) 28. Vol 16.  
 
Peter Cox. Roses in Australia. However the first recorded hybrid roses were ‘Imogen’ and .....described as cluster flowered, introduced by Mr. Bidwell of Sydney in 1845. Both roses are sadly now lost to us.

Book  (1996)  Page(s) 69.  
 
Peter Cox. From old nursery catalogues we now know that the first Australian roses were listed in 1845. These were two China hybrids named ‘Imogen’ and .... and produced by a Mr. Bidwell. These two roses are lost to us today…..

Book  (1987)  Page(s) 105.  
 
R. indica v. Imogen. [listed as growing in Camden Park, 1845]

Article (misc)  (1850)  Page(s) 21.  
 
845  R. Indica v. Imogen