Book  (2010)  Includes photo(s).
 
p9 From Janette Barnett: I dreamed a dream. Or should I say at least had a desire to name a rose after my grandfather, the late great rosarian Allan G. Scott MBE. Many in the rose world would remember this great gentleman who died in 2000. He saw in the new millennium, but at 97 didn't quite make it to his 100th birthday. He had just given up writing the rose notes for the NZ Gardener Magazine after writing them for 30 years, to write his memoirs. The last article appeared the month before he died. I digress. Imagine my delight when, in November 2004, a sport appeared, in my garden on 'Paddy Stephens'. Paddy and her late husband Pat were my grandfather's great friends and I found some amusement that Paddy would give birth to such a glorious rose worthy of his name. The rose bush was carefully marked with a ribbon tied from the bottom of the bush to the tip so the sporting shoot and any of its supporting branches wouldn't be cut off by accident during pruning time. Cuttings were taken to propagate this future great rose - but to no avail - they wouldn't take. Pruning time it was pruned gently so as not to cut off the sport. The following rose season it flowered in the new colour and more cuttings were taken, but again they stubbornly refused to grow. Alas, the shoot was starting to lose vigour and I could see my dream fading. Luckily another friend of Allan's came to the rescue. After a desperate telephone call to Brian Attfield, I delivered the last small piece into his letterbox. This held some tiny buds which he managed to bud onto some fine budwood he had growing. Fingers crossed, we waited over winter to see if the buds had taken and if they would grow once spring arrived. They duly did - the dream was hanging on. Meanwhile the seasons were rolling around, another year had gone by and I was aware of another sport from 'Paddy Stephens' which had arisen in Hamilton Gardens. It was quickly introduced onto the New Zealand market. Its name, of course, is 'Hamilton Gardens'. with all the great attributes of its parent: health and vigour, and a gorgeous soft creamy apricot colour. There my dream died. My sport is too similar to 'Hamilton Gardens' to be of worth commercially. Thanks to Brian Attfield I have a plant and my mother and aunties all have plants of 'AIlan G. Scott'. Opinions from those in the know vary on the colour. Some say "Allan" has more colour, others say they are the same. I think it would be too much for the public to notice the difference. I will leave it to Doug Grant to do a technical comparison. See photographs page 17 - what do you think?

p17. Photo (by Jan Barnett]. 'Allan G. Scott'
p17. Photo (by Dawn Eagle) 'Hamilton Gardens'

Book  (1974)  
 
p16. Photo Mr. Allen Scott. M.B.E. (invested 1973)

p17. Citation: Allan G. Scott. B.M.E. Queen's Birthday Honours, 1973).....