Magazine  (2009)  Page(s) 1 Vol 31, No. 2.  Includes photo(s).
 
Front cover photo. "Brownlow Hill Rambler” is trained up a marri tree in Araluen Botanic Park Roleystone WA. It looks magnificent in spring. Possibly a R. wichuriana hybrid. It has clusters of pink flowers, pale on the outer petals and a darker pink button eye. There is no sign of yellow or gold. It is named after Alexander McLeay’s Country property in Camden NSW which was established in the 1830s.

Magazine  (2003)  Page(s) 20. Vol 25, No. 3.  
 
Letter from Esmond Jones. We should be forever grateful to the people at Brownlow Hill for sharing their rose with us. It is a soft medium pink and has a rich, strong perfume. The flowers are quartered with a button center and are well formed. It is fully double and in some seasons the middle layers of petals show an intense beetroot purple colouring on the reverse side of the petals. It is a vigorous rambler and flowered in early spring in 2002 and flowered again after two good falls of rain in December. Heatwave conditions in January put a stop to the best of it.

Magazine  (2001)  Page(s) 59. Vol 23, No. 1.  
 
Sydney Group: we visited two rose nurseries in November. Gretchen Wheen’s ‘Old Fashioned Rose Garden’ at Richmond has expansive plantings of well established examples of old favourites, including an enormous "Brownlow Hill Rose" grown on lateral wire extensions. A wonderful sight.

Book  (1999)  Page(s) 377.  Includes photo(s).
 
Mme. Alice Garnier. syn "'Brownlow Hill Rambler". Modern, rambler, pink blend. The first part of the twentieth century found hybridizers in France creating a long list of wichuraiana climbers. This rampant Rambler bears many clusters of open, bright rose flowers with a center of yellow and light pink. the blooms are formed on long, slender branches. the flat rosettes of quilled and quartered petals have a strong fragrance of apples. It reaches 15ft (4.5m) and is covered with abundant small, dark, glossy foliage when the young bronze shoots mature. It does well in poor soil and tolerates shade. Zones 5-10. Fauque, France, 1906, Rosa wichuraiana x 'Mme. Charles'.

Website/Catalog  (1996)  Page(s) 43.  
 
"Brownlow Hill Rambler. Wichuriana Hybrid. Not yet identified but a delightful spring flowering vigorous climber with clusters of medium-sized very double pale pink blossoms with unexpected peach pink depths to the centre and the strongest fragrance of ripe apples. The foliage is superb, extremely glossy deep green and disease-proof. We rate it with our best. From historic ‘Brownlow Hill’, country estate of Alexander Macleay who built Elizabeth Bay House in Sydney.

Book  (1990)  
 
p11 …It was in the year before Walter Clark arrived in Sydney that Alexander Mcleay, who had experimented with horticulture at Brownlow Hill ….

p12. George Macleay had arrived in Australia in 1827, earlier than his elder brother. Two years later, he accompanied Sturt on his exploration of the rivers Murrumbidgee and Murray and as a reward for his services, he had been granted 2,560 acres. He was already farming successfully at Brownlow Hill, near Camden….

Book  (1983)  Page(s) 83.  
 
Roses listed by Alexander MacLeay in the 1830's

Website/Catalog  (1980)  
 
[Early 1980’s? Melville Nurseries pink paper, red and black printing]

p2 Brownlow Hill. Wichuriana hybrid. Rambler. Spring flowers. Clusters of medium, double pink flowers, peach centres. Apple fragrance. Very glossy deep green foliage. Disease free.

Book  (1973)  
 
p56. One of New South Wales’ most attractive country houses and gardens was Alexander Macleay’s ‘Brownlow Hill’ in Camden’s Cow Pastures, and here the natural setting was appreciated and retained as much as possible by the owner. It was described by James Backhouse in A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies in 1836:
In clearing the land about the tasteful, genteel, cottage, and garden at Brownlowe Hill, more care has been taken not to destroy its beauty, by cutting down the trees indiscriminately, than is usual in these Colonies; where trees, being the encumbrance of the land, are generally cut away unsparingly… they have a Garden, producing Oranges, Apples, Loquats, Pears, Plums, Cherries, Figs, Mulberries, Medlars, Raspberries, Strawberries, and Gooseberries, and where Roses are in great profusion.

p111 Not far from Macarthur’s magnificent old homestead, ‘Camden Park’, which is lovingly preserved today be a descendant of the family, is Alexander Macleay’s country residence, ‘Brownlow Hill’, one of Australia’s most historically interesting houses and gardens. The delightful early colonial swelling is surrounded by a large, tangled old garden of self-sown trees and shrubs, and it is one of the few gardens whose pattern has not changed over the century and a half it has been in existence. At the entrance a low stone wall edges a large pond decorated with old classic urns, and from the wide terrace curved stone steps lead down to a wilderness of black stemmed bamboos, hundreds of olive trees which have seeded, tall pines, giant-sized Grevilleas and a variety of rare and exotic plants. On the lawn is a sundial marked ‘George McLeay 1836’. The sandstone known as ‘wainamatta’ from a local quarry is of a particularly hard variety, and the steps remain in perfect condition after 140 years. The early colonial cottage with its pretty roof-line sweeping down from the ridge-pole in true Australian style, and wide stone-flagged verandas with their simple, slim, wooden posts, overlooks a magnificent view of the green Cow Pastures, where the elms and hawthorns look strangely soft and English in the landscape.