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"Mill River Farm" rose References
Newsletter (Feb 2014) Page(s) 37. Di Durston, Australia. Two rare roses that Gwen has found are ...... and a rose from ‘Mill River Farm’, in the Langkloof Valley, that could well be the lost ‘Rosa Odorata'. Mike Shoup from Texas and I happily spent time in the garden photographing these roses to add to her research at a later date.
Book (1988) Page(s) 254. Includes photo(s). The furtherest south where I have found 'Beauty of Glazenwood is at Mill River Farm in the Langkloof....It was at Mill River Farm that I found a very interesting plant three metres high, growing near to an old 'Beauty of Glazenwood'. The same lax, angular habit of growth, the same brownish-green stems with almost straight thorns, and the same small shiny green leaves betrayed its evident parentage, but the flowers were slightly larger and virtually single, although sometimes a few tiny petals curled in over the stamens. The golden-yellow loose petals shaded crimson at the edges were of the same colouring as 'Beauty of Glazenwood' and the texture of the petals and setting of the flowers on small side shoots along the young branches were identical. I looked once again at Ellen Willmott's Plate 29 which seemed to me to be identical to the Mill River seedling. Miss Willmott states that 'all attempts to trace the origin of this beautiful Rose have failed - and it has not been figured'. She knew of only one specimen, which was growing in Canon Ellacombe's garden at Bitton in Gloucestershire. I suspect that the rose which she called 'Rosa chinensis var. Grandiflora Hort' could be the single form of 'Beauty of Glazenwood'.
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