Book  (1999)  Page(s) 50.  
 
‘Kitty Kininmonth’, Clark, Australia, 1922. Climber. Pink. [Available from] Cottage, Evans, Golden Vale, Hedgerow, Honeysuckle, John’s World, Lyn Park, Melville, Merri, Mistydown, Nieuwesteeg, Reliable, Roseraie, Roses Galore, Showtime, Spring Park, Stoneacres, Thomas

Book  (Dec 1998)  Page(s) 339.  Includes photo(s).
 
Kitty Kininmonth Large-flowered Climber. Clark (Australia) 1922... The semi-double flowers of this variety are very large and open cupped, showing golden stamens in the heart of the deep pink blooms... it needs plenty of space. It also needs a warm climate and frost-free conditions to thrive...

Website/Catalog  (1998)  Page(s) 17.  
 
‘Kitty Kininmonth’. Hybrid Tea Climber. 1922. A. Clark./Aust. Climbing. double, slightly fragrant, recurrent. 4.5m x 3.0m dp.

Website/Catalog  (1997)  Page(s) 5.  
 
‘Kitty Kininmonth’ 1922. Hybrid gigantea Climber. Carmine rose blooms early in the season. Vigorous. May repeat. Semi-double.

Magazine  (1997)  Page(s) 27. Vol 19, No. 1.  
 
Elizabeth and Andrew Govanstone. The Women Behind the Roses.
Quite some time ago a reader's letter was published in appreciation of the magnificent rose ‘Kitty Kininmonth’, released in 1922 by Australia's most noted rose hybridist and horticultural benefactor, Alister Clark. The author. wondered about the identity of the woman whose name was chosen for the rose. We wish to provide some brief information regarding Alister's rose namesake and her remarkable life. But Kitty was only one of sixty-five women after whom the rosarian from Glenara, Bulla named his seedlings. The women were from an array of backgrounds that reflect the broad range of interests and friends which Alister and his wife, Edith, shared.
Kitty Kininmonth, born in 1893, was one of six beautiful daughters of Jim and Euphemia Kininmonth, of Mt Hesse station near Winchelsea in the Western District. The girls' brother, Jim, enlisted early in World War One and saw action at Gallipoli, then France. Wishing to do more for the war effort, Kitty and her sister Daisy left the Women's Land Army in England and went to France driving ambulances at the front and treating wounded soldiers. Able to see first hand the human tragedy and trauma being inflicted upon the victims of the war, Kitty returned to England and learned techniques and therapies useful in the physical rehabilitation of the injured. This included massage and electrical treatment, and Swedish and other remedial gymnastics. Following the armistice Kitt returned to Mt Hesse. In 1921 she and a friend, Marnie Masson (later Basset), travelled to New Guinea, where a six week stay became a three month journey into remote and beautiful places that her diary records with word pictures of serene appreciation. In 1929 Kitty married a Western District doctor and Gallipoli veteran Dr. Mylles Cave. The couple honeymooned for twelve months, taking in the great sites and monuments to human endeavour throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia Minor, and India. On their return the couple opened a small hospital named CAZNA in the needy Western District town of Beeac. People were only charged what they could well afford to pay. The Caves had a son, Mylles, but, tragically, after having their second child, a daughter, septicaemia set in and Kitty died. She was forty years old. Fortunately "Kit", their blue-eyed and blond-haired daughter survived. Today she receives much joy; as do others, from the rose that grows so magnificently and flowers with such breath-taking effect, named after her mother, Kitty Kinimonth. Every person chosen by Alister (or more correctly those who consented to have Glenara seedlings named after them) as a rose name-sake, was chosen for a reason. Alister was very judicious in his choice of those after whom he named his roses!

Book  (1997)  
 
p73 ….and the deeper pink, some might say almost blowzy ‘Kitty Kininmonth’.

p190 The Alister Clark roses do equally well. ‘Nancy Hayward’ and the bright pink, exuberant ‘Kitty Kininmonth’, described in Modern Roses as having R. gigantea in its breeding but exhibiting little sign of it, bloom all year round in this climate as Alister hoped they would.

Book  (1997)  Includes photo(s).
 
near p74 Photo. ‘Kitty Kininmonth’ covering an archway.

p107 Kitty Kininmonth’s daughter came….

p198 ….’Daydream’, ‘Gwen Nash’ ….[and] the third rose for my tunnel would be the voluptuous deeper pink ‘Kitty Kininmonth’ All three are recurrent.

p226 Photo 22.

p247 ‘‘Kitty Kininmonth’ – Climber. Huge, bright pink double blooms in spring. Some repeat flowering.

p252 ‘Kitty Kininmonth’. Very vigorous climber. 1922. R. gigantea x unnamed seedling*. Very large, semi-double, slightly fragrant flowers of rich, glowing pink with golden stamens. Sometimes recurrent. Came to us from the Kininmonths of Mount Hesse.

[*note – This parentage is reversed from the normally quoted parentage. ]

Magazine  (1995)  Page(s) 4. Vol 17, No. 1.  
 
Marion McLeod. Re the cover photograph of ‘Kitty Kininmonth’ and who perhaps gave the name to the Rose – as it is a rather unusual name – I notice in a Sands & Mcdougall’s Directory of Victoria for 1939:
Kininmonth, J. L. (exors) Mt. Hesse Stn, Winchelsea
Kininmonth, Miss M. E. Nangana Stn., Winchelsea.
There may have been a Kitty in these families.

Magazine  (1995)  Page(s) 11. Vol 17, No. 2.  
 
There have been a number of phone calls and letters about the naming of the Alister Clark rose on the cover of the Summer 1994 (Vol.16 No.4) edition of the Journal – ‘Kitty Kininmonth’. Kitty Kininmonth was one of five sisters, three of whom (Kitty included) owned the homestead Mount Hesse, near Winchelsea in the Western Districts of Victoria. Kitty was the youngest of five sisters. The circumstances in which she met Alister Clark are not known, but as both moved in the same social circles and were keen horse lovers, they would have known each other during the first two decades of this century. Graham Campbell McInnes, in his book On the Road to Gundagai (published by Hogarth Press), recalls a September holiday at Mount Hesse sometime in the early to mid 1920' s with the then three spinster Kininmonth sisters. Kitty was described as ".. an ash blonde with high-pitched exciting voice which spoke of laughter in the next room". No mention though of Alister Clark, or of roses. Many thanks to three members in particular for the time and energy they gave to answering Marion McLeod's question about Kitty Kininmonth: Mr Tiley of Hamley Bridge for his letter and for bringing McInnes' book to our attention, also to John Nieuwesteeg for his comments about visiting Mount Hesse, and to a lady who wishes to remain anonymous, and whose research has been most valuable. We appreciate very much your thoughtfulness in making this information available to members, as it makes more vivid the image of the lady whose name Alister Clark chose for his lovely rose. Graeme Johnston [Editor] and Val Johnston.

Magazine  (1995)  Page(s) 11. Vol 17, No. 2.  
 
‘Kitty Kininmonth’ not Hybrid Gigantea. (Courtesy of Victorian Rose News, Vol 27, No. 28. June 1995, p27. "Readers may recall that in VRN December 1994 four of Alister Clark's roses were listed of which there is a doubt as to whether they have R. gigantea in their breeding. One of these was ‘Kitty Kininmonth’. The Editor has had word from John Nieuwesteeg, of Coldstream, that "no way is ‘Kitty Kininmonth’ a hybrid of R. gigantea". John is respected as possibly the foremost present day authority on Alister Clark's roses. And in confirmation of John's word, Phillip Sutherland, of Benalla, says that there is nothing in the growth, foliage, or flowers that would lead one to believe that ‘Kitty Kininmonth’ has R. gigantea blood in its breeding. Thus it would seem-that the entry in "Modern Roses", from which the Gigantea breeding information originates, is an aberration."