(1962)  Page(s) 45, Pl. 2.  Includes photo(s).
 
'Abbotswood'. 1954. A seedling rose which cropped up in a hedgerow in the kitchen garden at Abbotswood, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, the home of Mr and Mrs Harry Ferguson. Mr. F. Tustin, then their head gardener, pointed it out to me and I subsequently named and distributed it. It is a vigorous plant, but more manageable than R. canina itself, and carries normal armature and light green foliage. The flowers are of true Dog Brier pink, fairly double, borne along the arching branches. Heps oval, orange-red, showy. Sweetly scented like R. canina, and a spray cut with half-open blooms can be very charming. Should reach 6 feet by 6 feet. (Photograph, Plate 2).
From the following illustrations it is obvious that chance hybrids or forms of this type must have occurred before:
Andrews, Plate 6, R. canina var. flore pleno. Very similar to 'Abbotswood'.
Lawrance, Plate 60, Double 'Dog Rose'. Ditto.

(1962)  Page(s) 178.  

(1963)  Page(s) 160.  
 
'Kathleen'. 1922. 'Daphne' x 'Perle des Jardins' (?). A very vigorous, branching shrub with long-stemmed clusters of small, single, blush-pink flowers from apricot buds. Coppery young shoots and leaves, turning to green; narrow leaflets....

(1980)  Page(s) 131.  
 
It is sad and inexplicable to me how such a famous pink rose as La Reine (1842) can have disappeared. In its heyday it was in every catalogue and its portrait was in every book. Perhaps it may yet be retrieved. It was figured in  Choix des Plus Belles Roses, Plate 13, and in the Journal des Roses, Mars 1880.

(1963)  Page(s) 147.  
 
'Mme Jules Thibaud'. A sport from 'Cécile Brunner' very near to it, but of peach colour rather than pink. I have been unable to trace its origins.

(1962)  Page(s) 183.  
 
'Marguerite Hilling'. Sleet, 1959. A sport from 'Nevada' which occurered about 1954. The same colour form occurred at the Sunningdale Nurseries some years previously and also in Mrs Steen's garden in New Zealand in 1958. It promises to make as good a plant as 'Nevada' and the colour is a pleasing flesh-pink.

(1962)  Page(s) 84.  
 
'Mary Queen of Scots'. A most beautiful form grown by Lady Moore in Dublin, and the story goes that it was brought from France by the queen and eventually reached Northern Ireland, where it is found in many gardens. Lady Moore found it in 1921, in Antrim. The grey-lilac buds open to fairly double blooms, the surface of the petals being nearly as richly plum-tinted as in 'William III'. The grey-lilac and the plum make a fascinating contrast, a souvenir of a sad life. Probably 4 feet.

(1963)  Page(s) 122.  
 
'Sanguinea' is perhaps the name of the single crimson variety which my colleague James Russell received from the South of France labelled 'Amourette' (which is a pink rose). It is a vigorous plant, probably growing to 5 feet in good soil, with stouter wood and larger, darker flowers than Miss Lowe. 'Sanguinea' was a sport from R. c. semperflorens, but so far no reverse sport has occurred on my plants. Old plates of such roses as these are as follows:
Andrews, Plate 69. R. indica simplex. Raised from seed sent from France in 1816.
Redouté, vol. i, Plate 49. R. indica.

(1963)  Page(s) 86, Pl. 56.  Includes photo(s).
 
Mrs. Colville. No doubt a hybrid with Rosa pendulina, indicated by its rather smooth red-brown wood, and long, plum-red heps. Nearly single,, of intens crimson-purple with a white zone round the yellow stamens. Suckers freely. 3 to 4 feet.

(1962)  Page(s) 86.  
 
'Ormiston Roy' Doorenbos, 1938. 'Allard' x R. spinosissima. Mr. Doorenbos tells me that this rose of his often produces blooms late in the summer as well as at the normal time. It appeared in the F2 generation and was named after a friend in Montreal. The well-formed, clear yellow single flowers are beautifully veined. Large black-maroon heps and pedicels. Compact habit, about 4 feet. It is a parent of 'Golden Wings'...