(1971)  Page(s) 65.  
 
A Victorian favourite that will grace the back of a flower border and make a foil for pale flowers in the foreground is Reine des Violettes. It adds a new colour for it is deep purple on opening and later develops a pale violet hue. This unusual hybrid perpetual resembles the old French or gallica roses in form and colour, and like them has a very strong perfume. It is recurrent flowering and will give some fine autumn blooms. It is perhaps an acquired taste, but soon becomes a prime favourite.

(11 Nov 1899)  Includes photo(s).
 
Three Beautiful Clematises
1. Vesta   2. Lord Londesborugh   3. Lady Londesborough

(1939)  Includes photo(s).
 
Walter Bentley

(24 Jun 2015)  Includes photo(s).
 

New rose to mark 100 years of the Women’s Institute.  Called ‘Inspiration’ it is a hybrid tea with large blooms of bright salmon-orange and pale-yellow on the reverse of the petals.  Cheshire breeder Gareth Fryer said: “It was offered exclusively to WI members in 2014 so they could plant it in order to see it in flower this centenary year.”