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'Lorraine Lee' rose References
Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 324.  
 
Lorraine Lee Tea, rosy apricot-pink, 1924, 'Jessie Clark' x 'Capitaine Millet'; Clark, A. Description.
Book  (Feb 1993)  Page(s) 113.  Includes photo(s).
Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 49.  
 
Lorraine Lee Tea. A. Clark, 1924. Parentage: 'Jessie Clark' x 'Capitaine Millet'. [Author cites information from different sources.]
Website/Catalog  (1985)  Page(s) 29.  
 
Lorraine Lee* (Tea) A mixture of apricot and pink with cupped flowers. Foliage rich green and glossy. Needs extra care for the best results. 1924. (R) 2 x 2’
Book  (1978)  Page(s) 148.  
 
'Lorraine Lee' Medium     Pink     Remontant P2    H1 
Alister Clark of Bulla in Victoria, Australia, was an energetic and imaginative breeder of roses, and fond of using an enormous plant of R. gigantea which grew in his garden. He admitted that his records did not always go to the extent of revealing his pollen parents; but even without that sophistication, it was through his name that many  people in the world learned to respect Australian rosarians. 'Lorraine Lee' is a pretty little rose from Clark' s R. gigantea line; although it looks like a China, both in leaf and flower. We grew it successfully in our nursery in Hitchin for some years, and admired the bushy growth, great freedom of flowers, abundant little leaves so glossy, and the warm pink colour touched with apricot. The buds are well formed, and the flowers open small and semi-double. The parents are stated to be 'Jessie Clark' x Capitaine Millet'; the former was a seedling from R. gigantea, and the latter a seedling from 'General Schablikine', which accounts for the China look. 'Lorraine Lee' was introduced in 1924 by Hackett & Company of Adelaide. At Hitchin we also grew 'Lorraine Lee, Climbing', which grew so far as to elicit the gibe that one needed binoculars to study the few flowers it bore. I understand it does better in Australia. 
Magazine  (Feb 1968)  Page(s) 1. trimester, p. 13.  
 
Alester CLARCK a obtenu plus de cinquante variétés dont SCORCHER, un climbing aux fleurs rouge sang et LORRAINE LEE, un hybride de Gigantea largement utilisé sur la Côte d'Azur.
Book  (1960)  Page(s) 71.  
 
H. K. Cresswell, Growing Roses in Brisbane. 
...many varieties which flourish in other parts of Australia are seldom grown here, and vice-versa.  Notable examples are Ena Harkness and Lorraine Lee, widely grown in southern States but practically never seen in Brisbane. 
Magazine  (Aug 1949)  Page(s) 24.  
 
G. A. Williams. Modern Roses [column]. ‘Lorraine Lee’, a lovely apricot pink, which does better in the South than in our hotter climate.
Book  (1949)  
 
p112.  Mr. H. Brunning, Victoria.  Six Indispensables
Lorraine Lee. Is a great acquisition for a winter-flowering rose. If pruned in March, it will flower during the winter months and so far I haven't seen its equal. The colour is rose shaded pink. It should be grown in every garden.

p117.  Mr. W. A. Stewart.  Glen Iris, Victoria.  Six Indispensables.
Lorraine Lee, must have a place in any indispensable six in Victoria. In almost every garden in every suburb, this variety, another of Mr. Alister Clark's, will be found. All the year round it makes innumerable hedges bright with its pink blooms. Its chief value is in late autumn, through the winter to early spring, when its blooms fill a gap left by the other varieties. In the cool weather the flowers, when cut, last well, and their perfume fills the house.
Book  (1947)  Page(s) 122.  
 
W. Beattie, Thornbury, Vic.
Some years ago I decided to experiment with Lorraine Lee as an understock on which to bud other varieties. Accordingly, 1 planted a few cuttings of it, which I prepared as briar stocks for dwarf Roses, leaving only one eye at the top. Of the number planted, only one struck, and that was not growing strongly enough at budding time, so I deferred the budding operation until the following season. But when that arrived my plant had grown so much that it was then too big, and the idea was abandoned.  To-day the plant is six years old, 10 feet high, and seven feet in diameter, producing hundreds of blooms each flowering season. The original stock is now three inches in diameter, and it is interesting to stress that all this growth has emanated from the one original eye.  The plant is growing in a cramped position, and has never been watered, manured or pruned.
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