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'St. Helena' rose References
Book  (1936)  Page(s) 639.  
 
St. Helena (HT) B. Cant 1912; cream, center white with blush highlights, sometimes shaded yellow, large, double, ovoid, fine form, fragrance 4/10, floriferous, repeats well, growth 6/10. Sangerhausen
Book  (1934)  
 
Flower cream with a pink blush in centre, yellow at the base of petals and in some instances coming yellow well up the centre of the bloom, large, full, perfectly formed, with long shell-shaped petals, carried erect. Growth vigorous.
Book  (1932)  Page(s) 76.  
 
H. R. Darlington. The Gold Medal Roses, 1883-1918. 1912 had 12 Gold Medals; Of these…… The remainder, St. Helena (a pretty Rose)….. are of the past.
Book  (1930)  Page(s) 87.  
 
The Adelaide Rose Show. Consistently good roses throughout the show included such varieties as …. and St. Helena.
Website/Catalog  (1922)  Page(s) 33.  
 
General List. (197) St. Helena (HT) (B. R. Cant) F. 2. Creamy blush shaded yellow. Long buds opening to very fine flowers. A good variety almost unknown.
Website/Catalog  (1921)  Page(s) 23.  
 
H.T. St. Helena. Cream, tinged yellow. Exhibition. Moderate grower.
Website/Catalog  (1921)  Page(s) 36.  
 
Roses.
St. Helena, cream, pink blush in centre, yellow at base of petals; class: Hybrid Tea; habit of growth: vigorous.
Book  (1921)  Page(s) 46.  
 
H. R. Darlington. The Hybrid Teas of the past Ten Years. St. Helena. (B. R. Cant), as first shown at Southampton, was a very beautiful flower indeed. The colour of the flower is very delicate – creamy yellow – and the form is good, with a high pointed centre, which is tinged pink. The plant is a moderately good grower, but I have not found it make a good garden plant. It entered the exhibition list in 1913, and gradually rose to a place at 36th, but has never improved on this.
Book  (1920)  Page(s) 154.  
 
Dr. Lamplough. Pruning and Timing Roses for Exhibition. St. Helena: early
Book  (1918)  
 
p73 1912 St. Helena

p75-2 H. R. Darlington. A Study for form in the Rose. ….Harking back again, we may pick up another line of decorative form in Prince de Bulgarie, and trace it through Joseph Hill, Countess of Derby, Mrs. A. R. Waddell, Lady Pirrie, Lady Greenall, attaining Exhibition size in Melanie Soupert and St. Helena…..

p82-1 J. E. Turner. Rose Growing in the West of Scotland. It may seem peculiar that two bad “sealers”, Mabel Drew and St. Helena, should have been treated as reliable, but experience shows that they only require either protection, or a little finger and thumb work each morning, to produce Exhibition blooms at the end of every shoot. In the season just past St. Helena has given as many, or more, class blooms per bush than any other variety, in spite of the fact that no shades were in use. Here, at any rate, it certainly was St. Helena’s year, though it is only fair to add that our first bloom had every chance, July being almost a rainless month, and only the heavy dews had to be contended with.

p124-1 Dr. Lamplough, Alverstoke, Hants. Notes on Times of Pruning and Blooming of Roses.
St. Helena. Pruned: March 31. 1st Bloom: June 21 Full bloom: June 23.
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