(30 Aug 1925)  Page(s) 15.  
 
Alexander Hill Gray
This rose was raised by A. Dickson in 1911, and belongs to the tea class. It is a suitable rose for growing in Brisbane and suburbs. The colour is lemon yellow, a perfectly formed rose, and suitable for exhibition and garden decorative purposes. Its freedom of flowering makes it one of the best garden roses for the average gardener. The foliage is fairly resistant to disease, while the plants are vigorous in growth. I can recommend it as one of the best garden varieties of its colour.
 

(30 Jul 1922)  Page(s) 22.  
 
[excerpt from a paper by Arthur Moore written for the Queensland Horticultural Society on rose development]

"In 1893 appeared Maman Cochet. No rose ever has, and no rose ever will succeed in enlisting so many friends and admirers as this, the greatest of all roses. Unfortunately nobody can tell how it was raised, for not withstanding the good results obtained by scientific hybridisation, many of the old Continental raisers continued to pursue haphazard methods. Many of us who make these matters a close study believe that Maman Cochet is a seedling from the well-known tea rose Mme Lombard (not Lambard, as is generally written), but I will not trouble you with the reasons which have led us to this conclusion."

(17 Aug 1930)  Page(s) 25.  
 
Pruning is a difficult thing to give oral advice upon. [...] Text books always advised that the top eye should be pointing outward. This was quite correct for all tall and upright growers, but was all wrong when the spreading varieties, such as Medea, were being dealt with.

[From The Sunday Mail (Brisbane newspaper).]

(13 Aug 1922)  Page(s) 23.  
 
White Maman Cochet. A Queensland Production. When I wrote the notes on Queensland-raised roses I mentioned Mr. A. Marshall as having raised the White Maman Cochet, but had not the complete history of such production. Mr. A. Marshall has sent along details of his production, which can best be described in his own words: — " In your notes on rose development in Sunday's issue you make mention of the rose, White Maman Cochet, which was fixed by me. You seem in doubt as to its correct origin, hence my writing to you to give to you information to remove the doubt which has partly taken away from me the whole credit of alone producing this rose. It was in 1896 that I budded from my own stock in my own garden several pink Mamans, and early in 1897 I gave one of these plants to a shopmate (H. Slaughter), and when it flowered it sported to the white. As soon as I was acquainted with the fact I naturally went and took buds and fixed it, taking some of the flowers to the late Mr. George Watkins, whom all of us knew to be the best rose grower then in our State, and who, like myself, knew I had got something choice. In November, 1897, I budded a fair number, expecting to make something good out of it, when, to my surprise, in 1898, I found that an American was sending out a White Maman; so, by some strange coincidence, the American must have struck the same sport, too. However, I feel sure you are pretty right in saying that my sport is the one mostly grown in Australia to-day, for I had dozens of inquiries for it. The first nurseryman I gave it to was Mr. L. Summerlin, who, I know, sent it out wholesale. As I like to be fair and just to anyone who deserves credit I have sent you the above lines."