• "Swan Hill Red"

Found Rose, Hybrid Perpetual.  

Red or geranium-red, lighter reverse.  Bristly or glandular pedicel.  Moderate fragrance.  Double (17-25 petals) bloom form.  

Armed with thorns / prickles.  Light green foliage.  

Disease susceptibility: susceptible to rust .  

Possibly planted by Captain Olsen who captained the Murray River boat, Brewarrina 1903 and/or the Success in 1918.
The rose was growing in the Swan Hill, Victoria garden when his home was purchased in 1922 by Elizabeth Newell’s grandparents.

Suckers a little.
Long oval leaves
Sets round orange hips
Bush spindly on its own roots.

Général Jacqueminot (hybrid perpetual, Roussel 1853) has been suggested.