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'Chip's Apple Blossom' rose References
Magazine  (2016)  Page(s) 66. Vol 38, No. 2.  
 
Wal Johnston.  State Rose Garden.  ....Margaret Furness and Sue Zwar have provided plants which will become the nucleus of the new plantings.  Included are .... and Chip's Apple Blossom (Riethmuller c1959).
Book  (2013)  Page(s) 40.  
 
p40 Chip's Apple Blossom' was given unnamed to Edith 'Chip' Smallwood (1915-1994), who became Mrs. Wilfred 'Bill' Farram and a well known Sydney figure.
Mary Davis [says] Chip Smallwood used to sell her rose as a fundraiser for the Henry Street Infants' Home. Chip led the 23A Club, a garden club named for the Farram House at 23A Cleveland Street, Wahroonga. It was Mary who named the rose, in 1988 (Source Margaret Furness)
The point is that, to the small and neat Mrs. Farram, Riethmuller gave a small and neat rose.

p60. 'Chip's Apple Blossom'. c1960. Dwarf Lambertiana. Single white with pink edges. Extant: yes.

p62. The National Rose Collection created by David Ruston at Renmark in South Australia has 'Chip's Apple Blossom'.
Book  (2012)  Page(s) 109.  
 
Eric Timewell. I am German. Frank Riethmuller's Breeding.
'Chip's Apple Blossom'. 'Gartendirektor Otto Linne' x seedling
Magazine  (2010)  Page(s) Vol 32, No. 3.  Includes photo(s).
 
p12.  Editor.  Update on Renmark. ....Over the next year we hope to add as many Australian-bred Polyanthas and Riethmuller roses as possible. (Jane Zammit has given us "Chip's Apple Blossom".)

p18.  Margaret Furness.  Chip and Her Rose.  (with information provided by Mary Davis, Eric Timewell & Jane Zammit)
Edith Smallwood retained her schooldays' nickname 'Chip' throughout her life. After her marriage to Bill Farram she was known as Chip Farram.  Her upbringing was privileged; in 1938, when in her early 20s, the Sydney Morning Herald noted "Miss Edith Smallwood, writing from Paris, describes the new spring fashions". She drew some enviable tributes.  The National Archive has photos of her by Max Dupain (best known for The Sunbaker), and Frank Riethmuller gave her a rose he didn't register, probably in the 1950s. It has clusters of single pink flowers, similar to 'Carabella' but is much more compact and manageable, For many years Chip propagated her rose for sale as a fundraiser for her beloved charity, the Henry Street Infants' Home. The Home had its origins in 1874, and still provides major support services for children and families. She formed the 23a Garden Club, named for the street number of the Farrams' family home in Wahroonga. Through "a lovely circle of friends"  Chip's rose was spread widely by cuttings, but it wasn't until 1988 that one of the 23a Club, Mary Davis, gave it the name "Chip's Apple Blossom".  Mary's 'Colonial Cottage Nursery' was a magnet to garden lovers across Sydney, and she sold the rose as both a standard and a small shrub. Jane Zammit first saw the rose and heard its story in Mary's garden in the late 90's; and her first plant came from David Clark of Lyn Park Nursery, who grew many heritage and old-fashioned roses for Mary.  We hope that from its new home at Renmark, "Chips Apple Blossom" will eventually re-enter circulation, and that some of Riethmuller's lost roses can be found. 


 
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