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Favourite Roses: 150 Garden Classics
(1996)  Page(s) 113.  Includes photo(s).
 
Princess Alice ('Brite Lites', 'Zonta Rose', HARtanna) Cluster-flowered floribunda bush... The name honours HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, a keen rosarian... Harkness 1985
(1996)  Page(s) 32.  Includes photo(s).
 
Buff Beauty Cluster-flowered shrub... large, light-apricot to buff flowers... for years the identity of the raiser was uncertain. It is accepted now that the rose world should thank Ann Bentall.
(1996)  Page(s) 87.  Includes photo(s).
 
Loving Memory (Burgund 81', 'Red Cedar', KORgund) Large-flowered hybrid tea bush. Some years ago the search was on for a rose with a suitable name for planting in British crematoriums. Out of several candidates this dark red was chosen...
(1996)  Page(s) 9.  Includes photo(s).
 
Canary Bird wild rose hybrid shrub... usually [blooms] before any other rose... fine ferny leaves... There is some question as to whether it came to Britain directly from China in 1907, as seed from a similar Chinese species, or was a botanic garden selection raised subsequently and passed along...
(1996)  Page(s) 33.  Includes photo(s).
 
Carefree Wonder (MEIpitac) Cluster-flowered shrub... For a mass of colour this can be wonderfully effective... Meilland 1991
(1996)  Page(s) 10.  Includes photo(s).
 
Cécile Brunner, Climbing Polyantha climber... petite pink blooms like miniature hybrid teas... [blooms] early summer to late autumn... Hosp 1894.
(1996)  Page(s) 98.  Includes photo(s).
 
Champagne Cocktail (HORflash) Cluster-flowered floribunda bush... light yellow-flecked pink, with reverse deeper pink... Horner 1985
(1996)  Page(s) 59.  Includes photo(s).
 
Champneys' Pink Cluster Noisette climber. This is an important variety in rose history, and a fine garden plant for mild climates, or in a sheltered site...
(1996)  Page(s) 10, 11.  Includes photo(s).
 
Page 10: Charles de Mills ('Bizarre Triomphant') Gallica shrub... large, fragrant, beetroot-purple blooms crammed with infolded petals... it can do with some support...
Page 11: [Photo]
(1996)  Page(s) 99.  Includes photo(s).
 
Christopher Columbus (POUlstripe) Cluster-flowered floribunda bush... On a blush background appear heavy markings of cerise... Named for the 500th anniversary of Columbus' landfall in what he thought were islands off the coast of India. Poulsen 1992
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