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'Cherub' rose References
Website/Catalog  (1999)  Page(s) 34.  
 
Cherub. Large-flowered Rambler Rose. 1923. A very healthy strong growing Rambler Rose with glossy rich green foliage and a profusion of large semi-double cupped flowers in salmon to rose silk, in clusters, in spring.
Book  (1999)  Page(s) 22.  
 
Cherub. Clark. Australia. 1923. Rambler. Pink. [Available from:] Cottage, Country Farm, Evans, Golden Vale, Hilltop, Honeysuckle, Lyn Park, Melville, Merri, Mistydown, Rose Arbour, Roses Galore, Showtime, Spring Park.
Book  (Dec 1998)  Page(s) 159.  Includes photo(s).
 
Cherub. Modern, Rambler, Pink Blend. This Australian Rambler, one of the creations of Alister Clark, flowers profusely in early summer. The salmon-pink blooms are semi-double, cupped and small, while the foliage is a rich glossy green and is wrinkled. The pliable canes make ‘Cherub’ a good rose for a pergola or for screening. Susan Irvine, an Australlian garden writer, states that the blooms look like a China rose. Zones 6-10. Clark, Australia, 1923. Seedling of ‘Claire Jacquier’.
Website/Catalog  (1998)  Page(s) 15.  
 
Climbing Roses: Cherub. Multiflora rambler. 1923. A. Clark, Aust. Climber. semi-double, attractive hips, slightly fragrant. 4.0m x 3.0m. Pink blend.
Website/Catalog  (1997)  Page(s) 4.  
 
Cherub. 1923 Rambler. (Clair Jacquier x.) Salmon pink semi-double clusters on a vigorous multiflora-type in spring. Rich glossy green foliage. Ideal for screening.
Website/Catalog  (1997)  Page(s) 28.  
 
Cherub. 1923. Clusters of salmon-pink, semi-double flowers in spring on a rambling bush. The glossy rich green foliage makes it an ideal plant for hedging.
Website/Catalog  (1997)  Page(s) 4.  
 
Cherub. (Hybrid Multiflora) 1923. Alister Clark. A very strong-growing climber with large trusses of blush-pink to salmon blossoms in early summer.
Book  (1997)  
 
p14. …..Much later the deep purple ‘Bleu Magenta’ comes into flower. It would be splendid with Alister Clark’s huge late-flowering pale pink rambler ‘Cherub’. which covers itself with single cupped blooms like apple blossom along the whole length of vigorous arching canes.

p236. Ramblers for windbreaks: ..Cherub. Alister Clark rambler. Pink, single. 4 x 4m. Flowers in late spring.
Book  (1997)  Includes photo(s).
 
p89. [with Eve Murray, Langley Vale] …..There was a large, low bush, simply covered with clusters of the most cheerful bright pink flowers. “That’s ‘Cherub’,” said Eve. “Alister loved it.”. From the cuttings of ‘Cherub’, I had a hundred percent strike and when it bloomed in the garden at Bleak House the following year everyone loved it. But by then I had gleaned more scraps of information about Alister’s roses and ‘Cherub’ was described in 1923 by Brundrett, who marketed it, as “a very vigorous climber with profuse, non recurrent bloom”. Clearly this was not the low-growing, tireless performer I had got from Eve. I put it on ‘hold’, pending more information. But in the meantime it was in constant demand since it flowered incessantly. Finally I persuaded John Nieuwesteeg to propagate it for me and we called it simply “Not Cherub”!
[On page 94, Susan Irvine writes that this foundling turned out to be ‘Suitor’.]
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p201 ……At the top of these steps, I planted on each side one of the pencil pines known as ‘Skyrocket’, with attractive blue foliage. Their tall straight lines are a valuable contrast to the foliage of the other shrubs and the roses. Outside each of these, and on the same level, is a huge, free-standing bush of Alister Clark’s great rambler ‘Cherub’. These two bushes cover themselves with a dense mass of tiny semi-double pink and white roses for several weeks in early summer.

p213 ….Since this [fence] had to be clad, the Alister Clark climbers and ramblers seemed a logical choice. First ‘Cherub’ and ‘Gladsome’ because of their vigour. Little ‘Cherub’ looks like Dresden china and is almost indestructible. I had found it first – a huge mound of it – at the National Trust property, Clarendon, near Evandale in Tasmania. Nestled in a corner of the back garden where two walls meet, it was at least three metres high and equally wide. I had to employ all my powers of persuasion to coax three ten-centimetre pieces from the curator, a dour but indecisive soul who was reluctant to allow even the smallest particle of the Trusts’s property out of her hands. The day I reached home, John called in. He suggested I plant two of the cuttings, and he would make three buds from the third. My cuttings did grow, but John’s budded plants reached maturity much faster and by the following winter were sturdy plants. Later we were sent budwood purporting to be ‘Cherub’ from Trevor Nottle in South Australia. It was identical to our own. And later still we found it again in Dame Nellie Melba’s old garden.

p226 colour picture

p247 Cherub – A vigorous rambling rose. small pale pink blooms in huge clusters. Spring.

p251. Cherub – Very vigorous rambler. 1923. ‘Claire Jacquier’ seedling. Small, semi-double, cupped, pink blooms in big clusters. Spring only.
Book  (1996)  
 
p56 Mr. Gordon Nolan, Balhannah, SA: Other [Australian rose] contenders at the show were ….. and Cherub’.

p67 Mr. Kevin Trimper, SA: Cherub, 1923. Alister Clark, Rambler. This is a lovely non-rampant rambler with small dainty semi-double sprays of pink flowers. Ideal for use as a weeping stem rose, screen on lattice or to grow over an old tree-stump. It’s only disadvantage is that it is a non-repeat flowering rose.
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