I spent yesterday afternoon checking my rose listing on HelpMeFind. Deleted five and now I have a large list of sick’uns to actually go and physically check if they are alive or dead. This exercise prompted me to add the class of “Found Rose” to most of the Australian foundlings on HelpMeFind. I have realised that a list of foundlings will only come up when the class of “Found Rose” is also added to the class of Hybrid Tea, Noisette, Polyantha, etc. and in many cases, whilst I had added the known class, I had not added “Found Rose” as well. Anyway, I have fixed all the Australian ones that I can think of.

When asking Advanced Search for Australian Found Roses, the list is a great memory jogger for correct foundling names.

However..... there is now a niggle in my mind:
Whilst we always keep the “Study name” in the same file as the ‘bred name’, do we still keep the class of Found Rose in the case of when a rose has been identified, such as
‘Laure Davoust’ (“Abbandonata”);
‘Madame de Watteville’ (“Kombacy Marianne”).
‘Marquise de Vivens’ (“Mrs. Good’s Special Tea”)