(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 123.  
 
Eroica [One of Harry Wheatcroft's selections of the Best Hybrid Teas.] Tantau, introduced in Britain in 1969. Description... damask-scented...

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 124.  
 
'Mme. Louis Laperriere' is the one that knocked that old favourite 'Etoile de Hollande' from the lists and has herself reigned unchallenged since...

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 127.  
 
Evensong [One of Harry Wheatcroft's selections of the Best Hybrid Teas.] Description... soft luminous rose-pink shading to salmon at the base...

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 127.  
 
Femina [One of Harry Wheatcroft's selections of the Best Hybrid Teas.] France, 1963, Gaujard; 'Fernand Arles' x 'Mignonne'. Description... full, high-centred salmon-pink flowers, paling slightly on the outside...

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 24-26.  
 
Queen Elizabeth... raised by Dr. Walter E. Lammerts, of Livermore, California... He had begun work on it just after the war, crossing 'Charlotte Armstrong', a tall-growing blood-red hybrid tea of his own breeding, with 'Floradora', a red floribunda raised by the Tantaus in Germany... the American plants of 'Queen Elizabeth' were all much bigger than anything [Wheatcroft himself had] ever seen the variety achieve in [England]... budded on multiflora stocks, which always produce an outsize root system, they were three or four times the size of [the plants in England] in every way... fragrance is all that it lacks...

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 23.  
 
The big four [roses of Harry Wheatcroft's] time: 'Peace', 'Super Star', 'Queen Elizabeth' and 'Fragrant Cloud'.

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 125.  
 
Fragrant Cloud [One of Harry Wheatcroft's selections of the Best Hybrid Teas.] Introduced in Britain in 1964. Description... dusky geranium-like flower...

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 29.  
 
Fragrant Cloud An unnamed seedling -- unscented [Wheatcroft believed] -- was one parent; the highly scented 'Prina Ballerina' the other... an attractive dusky coral shade.

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 32.  
 
'Ena Harkness', one of the finest roses of our time, was raised by an amateur, Mr. Albert Norman, whose real job was connected with diamond cutting in Hatton Garden. But his success with 'Ena' was no fluke, for he also gave us 'Frensham', for many years the best seller among floribundas, and he later produced 'Isobel Harkness', 'Ann Elizabeth', 'Vera Dalton', and others.

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 128.  
 
Honey Favourite (Von Abrams, 1962) a pinky-apricot sport [of 'Pink Favourite'] identical in every way except colour.