(1967)  Page(s) 7.  
 
Rosa Mundi....is to be found suckering over graves and pathways in the Roman Catholic section of the Grafton cemetery - at one spot even forcing ist way up through a large prostrate bush of the sempervirens hybrid, Adélaide d'Orléans, a rose that was bred in the garden of Louis Philippe, who later became King of France.

(1967)  Page(s) 208-209.  
 
Mr. Lynes was most interested, particularly when he heard it had been planted on a grave in New Zealand in 1881; and he was able to confirm our identification [as R. carolina plena]....This bush is growing side by side with Adelaide d'Orléans, that delightful trailing cluster rose with creamy pink flowers, the blooms of which tone so well with the warm pink blooms of R. carolina plena.

(1967)  Page(s) 172-173.  
 
More lovely than Félicité et Perpétue is a sister plant, Adelaide d'Orléans, called after one of Louis Philippe's daughters. The creamy flowers are loosely double and Show the Stamens,, the outer petals being rose tinted, as are the fat buds. These Blooms are described by one writer as hanging in Clusters like those of a Japanese cherry, and this was how they appeared to us at Sissinghurst Castle, falling from the top of an old fruit tree. We have planted cuttings from an old cemetery where two bushes of this rose cover early graves with a soft cream carpet of flowers. On one of these graves is a wild American rose, R. carolina plena, which Mr. Wilson Lynes, an expert on roses of his Country, tells us is quite rare. It flowers at the same time as Adelaide d'Orléans; and the two roses look charming together.

(1967)  Page(s) 173.  
 
Two more Sempervirens hybrids have come to us from old gardens...The other one was sent to us by a Country friend, who collected it in the Raglan district. This uncommon rose, Banksiaeflora, was recommended by William Paul, in 1848, as a good pillar rose. In our climate it would be too rampant for such a position, so we have trained it through a tree....Banksiaeflora has bright, glossy green leaves, especially in the early growth; and Clusters of cup-shaped Blooms which open a pale yellow, with a deeper shade in the centre round the lovely Stamens. If the weather is hot, the flowers pale quickly but still remain attractive. In size, These blooms are midway between those of Félicité et Perpétue and Flora.

(1967)  Page(s) 41.  
 
For over 300 years, from the beginning of the sixteenth century, when the earliest rose-red forms of R. centifolia were produced, to the middle of the nineteenth century, when such lovely types as La Noblesse, Fantin Latour, Blanchefleur and Paul Ricault appeared, Dutch and French breeders worked carefully and patiently to perfect this new type of rose.

(1967)  Page(s) 24.  
 
Recently we obtained, in New Zealand, a rose that is sometimes referred to as Blush Gallica and sometimes as Blush Damask. The latter appears to be the correct name and the one commonly used in England, where this rose is very popular in old-rose gardens. ....it could do with more shelter from cold winds, as its nodding, very double, lilac-pink flowers, deeper in tone in the centre, are often damaged in stormy weather. Because of its flexible growth it looks well growing on a raised position, as the flowers appear all along the arching stems weighing them down gracefully. Though the Blush Damsk is a hardy rose, we did notice that the blooms were very lovely in a sheltered part of the famous English garden, Hidcote; so we are now going to plant another bush in a warm, sheltered corner, and compare its performance in this favourable position in our New Zealand conditions.

(1967)  Page(s) 9-10.  Includes photo(s).
 
[Plate 2]
Charles de Mills is another fine Gallica Rose with extra large, very flat flowers which look as though they had been sliced level with a knife....In colour, Charles de Mills is at first a rich rosy-purple; but this soon changes; blue, purple, and slate tones subtly change and darken the appearance of the flower. This moderately-sized bush, with very dark, rough leaves, is smothered with blooms at the height of the season...each flower, instead of a button eye, having a green hollow in the centre. This Gallica Rose also grows on an early grave in the Grafton cemetery..large stands of Charles de Mills...not only in the Akaroa district, but in Marlborough and Nelson as well...We purchased our plant, in New Zealand, many years ago, as Cardinal Richelieu...

(1967)  Page(s) 173.  
 
A lovely white, with clusters of double blooms faintly tinged with yellow at the base, is being trained up a tree alongside the white garden. From studying early nineteenth century rose books we decided it must be either Rampant or Donna Maria. As the former produces some autumn flower, and we waited in vain for our plant to do so, we feel our lovely climber must be Donna Maria - a rose with the noticeable pale green foliage mentioned by William Paul in The Rose Garden.

(1967)  Page(s) 41.  
 
For over 300 years, from the beginning of the sixteenth century, when the earliest rose-red forms of R. centifolia were produced, to the middle of the nineteenth century, when such lovely types as La Noblesse, Fantin Latour, Blanchefleur and Paul Ricault appeared, Dutch and French breeders worked carefully and patiently to perfect this new type of rose.

(1967)  Page(s) 48.  
 
Sacheverell Sitwell and James Russell in Old Garden Roses name Fantin Latour and La Noblesse as two of the most glorious Centifolias. The former was called after the great French painter of flowers and is an exquisite rose that grows into a very large, very free-flowering shrub. Actually, in our garden, it has now travelled up through a tall Rhus cotinoides, the smoke bush; and the two shrubs look delightful together, as the rose festoons down through the branches and out over the tennis court. It is not a typical Centifolia, since the Damask influence is very strong, both in the soft, uniform pink of the quartered flat flowers, and the heady perfume. These blooms, often with a green eye in the centre of the incurving small petals, come in clusters, and keep opening out for quite a long time, making it a plant that pays big dividends in a shrub border. ..