(2011)  Page(s) 114.  Includes photo(s).
 
p110. Photo. "David's Dilemma" (possibly 'Socrate', Robert & Moreau, 1858) (photo by Billy West).

p114. Hillary Merrifield. Mystery Tea Roses in Australia. "David's Dilemma" was originally collected by John Nieuwesteeg near Yea in Victoria, Australia, and given the study name of "Canon Vale Fig Tree Rose". This peach-scented rose may be 'Socrate' (1858), as it is similar to early plates and descriptions and is the same as the 'Socrate' in overseas gardens.

(2011)  Page(s) 33.  
 
Gregg Lowery.  "Maggie" - A Global Mystery Rose. 
.....A rose apparently identical to Maggie" was known in Sweden, India, Germany, Florida, Slovakia, and Bermuda under many names - 'Eugen E. Marlitt', 'Mme. Eugene Marlitt', 'Julius Fabianics de Misefa', "Pacific". and "Kakinada Red".    This rose was believed to date from the mid- or late nineteenth century.  Hungarian rose breeder Rudolf Geschwind first introduced it as 'Julius Fabianics de Misefa', but it was later distributed as 'Eugen E. Marlitt'.  In America that name was feminized to 'Mme Eugen E. Marlitt' - a reference to the pen name of its namesake, Eugenie John, a German novelist in the 1870s.  The rose was popular in India, where it was considered to be hundreds of years old, it was sold under various commercial names.  In Bermuda one historical document records its having come to the islands with a sea captain in 1867.  The Bermuda story seems entirely credible, as Rudolph Geschwind developed a breeding stock rose in 1865, which he used repeatedly in his work.  This rose may have entered into commerce at that time and been widely distributed.....
 

(2011)  Page(s) 116.  
 
Hillary Merrifield. Mystery Tea Roses in Australia. The clear yellow "Fake Perle" which came to Western Australia as 'Perle des Jardins' but has something of an identity crisis as it is also known as "David's Not Marechal Niel".

(2011)  Page(s) 105.  
 
Sherri Berglund: Rose Sleuth Fred Boutin.
'General John Pershing'. Fred discovered this 1917 Hybrid Wichurana, bred by Frederick R. M. Undritz, in cemeteries in Oregon.

(2011)  Page(s) 118.  Includes photo(s).
 
Photo. "Hahndorf Midwife's Rose".

(2011)  Page(s) 75.  
 
Gregg Lowery. ....Or perhaps you'll venture down to Somerset to see the tiny stone church where "Heydon Pink China" greets you at the door.....Yet on my last visit to Bermuda I had an opportunity to observe a number of varieties that are little known and rare in commerce. Included among these are "Hevdon Pink China" and....., Most may be seen and admired in Roses in Bermuda, thanks to the Bermuda Rose Society and its courageous preservationists.

(2011)  Page(s) 33.  
 
Gregg Lowery.  "Maggie" - A Global Mystery Rose. 
.....A rose apparently identical to Maggie" was known in Sweden, India, Germany, Florida, Slovakia, and Bermuda under many names - 'Eugen E. Marlitt', 'Mme. Eugene Marlitt', 'Julius Fabianics de Misefa', "Pacific". and "Kakinada Red".    This rose was believed to date from the mid- or late nineteenth century.  Hungarian rose breeder Rudolf Geschwind first introduced it as 'Julius Fabianics de Misefa', but it was later distributed as 'Eugen E. Marlitt'......
.......as Rudolph Geschwind developed a breeding stock rose in 1865, which he used repeatedly in his work.  This rose may have entered into commerce at that time and been widely distributed. 
 

(2011)  Page(s) 49.  Includes photo(s).
 
Etienne Bouret.  Rose Sleuth John Hook. 
"Labatut Tea" found on the edge of a  ruin, a 'Mme. Charles' type (true form).

(2011)  Page(s) 105.  Includes photo(s).
 
p105. Sherri Berglund: Rose Sleuth Fred Boutin.
'Le Pactole'. This first-rate tea rose (introduced prior to 1837 and bred by Auguste Miellez) was collected in the Sierra Nevada region and identified by Fred. The name means "gold mine" or "bonanza"

'Le Pactole' (photo by Doug Seidel)

(2011)  Page(s) 20.  Includes photo(s).
 
Helga Brichet. Rediscovering Three Chinese Roses.
Rix and Phillips....first spotted the "Lijiang Road Climber" around a corner of the mountain pass between Dali and Lijiang, and later found it growing in numerous other hedges and gardens in the area. The rose was a bright pink Tea China, very closely related to R. gigantea, not fully double, with bright yellow stamens and silky petals that faded towards the center. the long, pointed buds were also a bright, strong pink. Understandably their excitement was high, and numerous cuttings were taken and carefully stored away. These unfortunately were to come to a bad end, for the authors at the end of their voyage returned to Europe via the United States. Fearing that the long journey would endanger the survival of the precious cuttings, they were left with a nursery in that country and never heard of again. All was not lost, however, as we shall later see......
In 1997 in Italy a group of amateur rose lovers led by Vittorio Ducrot and nurseryman Walter Branchi decided to emulate the Rix and Phillips expedition in Yunnan. Vittorio and Isabella Ducrot recount the story in A Garden for Roses, a book privately published in 2001. Upon arrival in Lijiang, the Italians visited the Black Dragon Park and were delighted to see a very large example of "Lijiang Road Climber".....They were not so lucky with the propagation of "Lijiang Road Climber", but were saved from bitter disappointment by the generosity of a friend, Gian Lupo Osti. A year prior to the Ducrot expedition, Osti had visited the same area in search of peonies and had noticed the beautiful rose. He had taken cuttings, and these had set root in his garden north of Rome.
Some years ago in the spring, Martyn Rix came from England to spend a few days at my home in Umbria. We spent a particularly memorable day botanizing in the Apennine Hills along the road that leads to Norcia, and further up to Castelluccio on the edge of the great crater. Then I took him to the rose nursery that was at the time owned by Walter Branchi. There, looking around Martyn suddenly exclaimed "But that's my rose!" And indeed it was "Lijiang Road Climber", the rose he had lost on the way home from Yunnan. Thus the circle was closed, and Martyn took a plant of "his" rose back to England.