yes, i'd read that. I'll look into it.

I've been in touch with the curator of the Heritage section of the State Rose Garden at Werribee. I have given him the details of this discussion so that he can look at it, but he prefers to withhold judgement on IDing a rose he can't physically see. He said that roses, given very different conditions, will bloom very differently. He also says that there are vast numbers of roses that go by various names, on which a universal body of knowledge is never arrived at [which process, true to form, isn't exactly dashing forward here]. So the plan is for the situation to be reviewed in late October [when he expects the plant to be in flower] by him, unless before that time there is someone who can definitively inform the State Rose Garden that the rose that is labelled as Tour de Malakoff in the State Rose Garden is not Tour de Malakoff. Do you have a lot of experience with this rose? If so, perhaps you are that person and can let the curator know as such. As a beginner, I do not feel empowered to have any opinion one way or the other, except that I have read that, as you have said, Tour de Malakoff is purplish magenta.