(22 Jul 2009)  
 
Dr Frank Leith Skinner papers.

Haidee. Rosa laxa hybrid, shrub to six feet, small dark green leaves wood red sometimes very thorny; flowers large, cup shaped, double, clear pink with a cream centre. Seasonal bloom.

(5 Jul 1949)  
 
Personal Correspondence Percy Wright to Frank L. Skinner.

My best yellow rose, the one you saw last July, puzzles me. It is too good for an Altaica-Harison's Yellow cross, with a long bud suggesting H.T., a perfect form of half-opened flower, and the scent of the tea rose. the cross that produced it was made in 1938, and I don't remember using any yellow HT pollen then. Besides, if a yellow HT was in its ancestry, it would not be 100% hardy (as it is), and if Persian Yellow was the parent, surely it would not be completely fertile (as it is), or have an agreeable scent. It's a mystery, but it's a wonderful rose. I named it Hazeldean, - the other name, Annie Laurie, having been used before."

(22 Jul 2009)  
 
Dr Frank Leith Skinner papers

Isa Murdock. R. altaica x double white spinosissima; thorny shrub to three feet; spinosissima type foliage, flowers double white, in some seasons tinged pink. Very free flowering over a fairly long season."

(2 Jul 1964)  
 
Personal correspondence from Frank L. Skinner to Percy Wright

I believe however that my greatest contribution to the cause of getting better hardy roses was the directing of attention to the value of the true Rosa laxa as a parent, some of my hybrids of it are of fairly good quality and continue to flower from the end of June untill frost. One of these which I have called Isabella Skinner is in bloom now and last year I photographed flowers on it in October, it is fully double, comes in clusters of four or five and has good foliage and the colour is a good clear pink.

(26 Sep 1957)  
 
Personal correspondence - Georges Bugnet to Frank L. Skinner.

Today I am mailing to you a layering of Marie Bugnet, a great grand-daughter of your Betty Bland. Her father is J.F. Grootendorst. Her mother is going here, (for private utility,) under the name of Betty Bugnet and is a daughter of Therese Bugnet which is herself a daughter of Betty Bland. Marie Bugnet needs rich soil for abundance of blooms. She is, here, subject to a small snout beetle, a kind of bud borer, than most other roses, possibly on account of her strong yet delicate perfume, and also to root galls. However, you will see if she turns out satisfactory enough for marketing. If so, you may multiply and sell her at your own pleasure and profit, equally with Therese Bugnet. For my part, having all the fun of creating and practically no expense, I am not a bit interested in financial returns.

(22 Jul 2009)  
 
Dr Frank Leith Skinner papers

Mrs. John McNab R. beggeriana x rugosa hybrid, shrub to five feet, leaves large up to nine leaflets, dark green slightly rugose, prickly on under side; infra stipular spines and few thorns; flowers fully double white occasionally tinged pink in centre, fragrant, produced over a long period sepals very long. Introduced 1942.

(6 Dec 1947)  
 
Correspondence: Dr. F. L. Skinner to H. M Eddie.

I have a few seedlings of Rose Patricia Macoun that are less than a foot high here, are continous flowering, quite double and nicely fragrant. I have had these with forty flowers out at one time on one panicle. Enclosed is a photograph of a small pot grown plant..."

(1957)  
 
List of New hybrids raised at Dropmore that will be listed in our 1958 catalogue. Frank Leith Skinner papers.

Rose Prairie Pinkie, shrub to about 30 inches, foliage clean and healthy resembling R. spinosissima, deep coral pink loosely double flowers for about two months in mid-summer fragrant, a hybrid of the Woodrow Rose.

(1957)  
 
List of New hybrids raised at Dropmore that will be listed in our 1958 catalogue. Frank Leith Skinner papers.

Rose Prince Charming, a hybrid of Rosa gallica grandiflora, shrub to about 30 inches tall, pale blush pink, fully double and very fragrant for about six weeks in early summer, very hardy.

(3 Jun 1953)  
 
Personal correspondence - Frank L. Skinner to Professor E.B. Risley

I tried to grow my Maximowiczii Rose seedling from hardwood cuttings taken in autumn but with little success so gave up the idea of using it as a stock. You are at liberty to distribute it to any one who might find it useful and I believe it might be advisable to name it. Skinner's Rambler might be a suitable name.