Booklet  (2022)  Page(s) 46-47.  Includes photo(s).
 
"Mrs. Goode's Special Tea"

Magazine  (Dec 2020)  Page(s) 29. Vol 42, No. 4.  
 
Billy West.  Some Favourite Fragrant Roses. 
“Mrs Goode’s Special Tea” - Marquise de Vivens (Dubreuil, 1885) - has the lovely deep, warm fragrance of violets.

Magazine  (Sep 2020)  Page(s) 34. Vol 42, No. 3.  Includes photo(s).
 
Ed. Few name-lost roses are so distinctive that a rose matching well with early descriptions and illustrations can be accepted as the same; Pat’s foundling “Mrs Goode’s Special Tea” (Marquise de Vivens, 1885, photo below) is a rare exception.

Website/Catalog  (21 May 2020)  
 
Marquise de Vivens. This came as Mrs Goods special tea. Bright carmine, center china-pink, base straw-yellow, reverse flesh-white base shaded light yellow, large, double, flat cup form, open rounded petals

Book  (2011)  Page(s) 114.  Includes photo(s).
 
Hillary Merrifield. Mystery Tea Roses in Australia."Mrs. Goode's Special Tea" was collected by Pat Toolan in South Australia and is a distinctive semi-double rose with flowers of vivid carmine-pink and flesh-white petal reverses, giving a two-toned effect. Comparison with early plates and descriptions and its violet-like fragrance point to this rose being Marquise de Vivens (1885), a variety known to have been grown at Anlaby in South Australia around 1900 but which had since disappeared from nursery lists in Australia and overseas.

Book  (2005)  Page(s) 103-6.  Includes photo(s).
 
Volume II of The Encyclopaedia of Antique Roses includes a reproduction of the coloured plate of Marquise de Vivens with complete descriptive text, in French from The "Journal des Roses" November 1885. The text is also translated into English.

According to V. Viviand-Morel, the author of this text, Marquise de Vivens was one of two roses chosen out of 'a galaxy of outstanding newcomers' at an exhibition in Lyon June 3-7, 1885, to vie for the Gold Medal for best new rose that year.

Magazine  (2001)  Page(s) Vol 23, No 1 pp39-41.  
 
Pat Toolan - Deane Ross Award 1999
On a number of occasions over the past couple of years, I have been intrigued by how one situation has naturally led to another in this journey with the old roses.
One such occasion concerns the Mitcham Anglican Cemetery. A Mrs Schwartz phoned to tell me of an old rose growing on the grave of her grandfather, Lewes Kell. She related a little of the family story. Her great-grandparents left Cooksbridge Farm, near Lewes, Sussex, with seven children (later to become eleven), to emigrate to South Australia. The eldest son, aged six, died just before arrival. Lewes Kell was the youngest child on arrival. Lewes became a farmer with land at Hawthorn and Kingswood (now inner southern suburbs of Adelaide.) Mrs Schwartz's father, Lewes Smith Kell, was raised with his brothers and sisters on a property on Bay Road (now Cross Road, Unley). When her father married, he built a house on the western side of his parents' house, with another family member building a house on the other side of the parents. This last house (with a shingle roof) was originally sold by the Kell family to the Misses Light, who were three nieces of Colonel William Light, who surveyed the City of Adelaide. Mrs Schwartz spent many happy hours in her childhood with the Misses Light. Mrs Schwartz's friend from school days bought this house in the 1950s from the Misses Light. She offered to contact her friend, Mrs Goode, to see whether the old roses she remembered growing there were still there, but she hadn't had time to contact her.

Meanwhile, quite a few months later, Mrs Goode read a Letter to the Editor written by Marjorie Brown. This letter queried the whereabouts of any old roses, from the time of Federation, which have not been recognised by name or are not available commercially. (This letter prompted many responses which are still being followed up). Mrs Goode contacted HRA. So it seems that knowledge of these old roses was destined to reach HRA anyway!

Mrs Goode invited us to visit to see the old roses which she believed dated from the time of Lewes Kell. Following a 'working bee' at Mitcham, Virginia Sheridan and I called on Mrs Goode, who was delighted to show us the roses. The roses had originally grown across the front of the old cottage until the 1950s, when an addition was built on the front of the cottage. The shingle roof is still intact under the present roof. The roses were moved to the side gardens.
The roses included:
1. Souvenir de la Malmaison - 2 bushes.
2. Hugo Roller (possibly) - a large bush with pink-edged, sold lemon yellow very double tea with a green tinge to the centre of the flower, few thorns.
3. A tall bush described as having 'carmine pink, double flowers with the size and form of Lorraine Lee.'
4. At the side of the cottage an area of about 3 metres square is covered by a rose (which had possibly collapsed outwards from the centre) which has medium size, semi-double, cupped, mid-pink with white centre and boss of yellow stamens flowers. They have the form of Duchesse de Brabant, with the bush about one and a half metres high. A real treasure which I've never come across before. [ This is the rose that was subsequently given the name "Mrs Goode's Special Tea" ].
5. In the front garden, intermingling with a large bush of Cécile Brünner, is a small flowered, red, semi-double China, of twiggy growth.
6. Growing on the western side of the house is a damask (?) once flowering sharp cerise, hot pink, opening flat, very double, 100 petals at least - not flowering on our visit.

A return visit when the roses are flowering and also to take cuttings has been extended to us. Mrs Goode is aware that when she leaves the property, it will be divided into smaller blocks which will have home units or large townhouses constructed - thereby covering all the land. All these roses will be propagated and a bush of each planted at Mitcham Cemetery which will become a repository for these old Adelaide mystery roses.
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by Pat Toolan

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 362.  
 
Marquise de Vivens Tea (Old Garden Rose), Flowers carmine, base yellowish [dp], 1886, Dubreuil.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 741.  
 
Marquise de Vivens (tea) Dubreuil 1885; bright carmine, center china-pink, base straw-yellow, reverse flesh-white base shaded light yellow, large, double, flat cup form, opens, rounded petals, fine form, dropping, solitary or up to 3, fragrance 7/10 (violets), floriferous, repeats well, few prickles, growth 6/10, well-branched. Sangerhausen

Book  (1922)  
 
Marquise de Vivens (T.), Dubreuil 1885: Flower rose Neyron red on a succinum white ground, large, full, fragrant. Growth vigorous. T.