(1998)  Page(s) 87.  
 
C. recta 'Purpurea'
syn: C. pallasii 'Foliis Purpurea'
'A very handsome plant with purple foliage and white flowers, to 5 ft.'
'A seedling raised here from one of the forms of C. recta.'; listed among 'Specialities new or rare' in catalogue no. 56 [1903 Hardy alpine plants]. This is still in cultivation.
refs: Alpine plants no. 67:95 (1905)
PF 1997 [RHS Plant Finder]: propagate vegetatively, by division or cuttings.

(1998)  Page(s) 140.  
 
R. fedtschenkoana
A plant of this handsome grey-green foliaged rose was sent from Daisy Hill Nursery in 1890 to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and was subsequently figured in Curtis's Botanical Magazine. It is native in central Asia.
ref: Curtis's Botanical Magazine tab. 7770.

(1998)  Page(s) 140-141.  
 
R. moschata 'Autumnalis'                   before 1912
syn: 'Princesse de Nassau'
'A pretty plant, with a few hooked thorns; light yellowish green leaves, limp and matt, and does not flower until August ... Dainty sprays of small sme-double blossoms on softly downy stalks; silky petals, deep cream buff on opening ... fading cream, with yellow stamens and a delicious fragrance.'

In 1983 Graham Thomas reported this rose: 'I include this rose', he wrote, 'with some hesitation, since I cannot vouch for the name; it is not in any book I have consulted, but occurs in a Daisy Hill Nursery catalogue dated 1911.'
Later he added that he thought it may be 'Princesse de Nassau', and in the most recent edition of his monographs on roses he has abandoned Thomas Smith's name in favour of 'Princesse de Nassau'. Thomas Smith, in fact, listed 'Princesse de Nassau' in several catalogues, ant it was G. N. Smith who seems to have introduced the name R. moschata autumnalis (Newry roses no. 138: 13 [1935]), when he described the rose as 'a form of Musk rose which flowers in the Autumn, large trusses of fragrant flowers in October'. I think there may have been some confusion in the nursery over these roses.
refs: Newry roses no. 86 (1912); Thomas, Climbing Roses Old & New, 38-39 (1983); Thomas, The Graham Stuart Rose Book, 215 (1994).
illust: Thomas, The Graham Stuart Thomas Rose Book, drawing 20 (1994).
PF [RHS Plant Finder] 1997 (as 'Princesse de Nassau'): propagate vegetatively, by cuttings or grafting.
 

(1998)  Page(s) 141.  
 
R. rugosa 'Acicularis'               before 1880
'A very vigorous and altogether distinct plant of rather erect habit, often making small shoots six feet long; they are densely spiny, the single flowers intense lake crimson; the fruit somewhat pear-shaped and slightly hairy.'
'This originally came from Japan and has been in my possession quite twenty years' (catalogue no. 32) according to Thomas Smith. It is not mentioned in current works.
Smith also offered 'acicularis seedling form' in subsequent catalogues (e.g. Newry roses no. 32: 9 (1898-1899); - no. 59: 30 (1903-1904).

(1998)  Page(s) 141.  
 
R. rugosa x polyantha                c. 1900
'the growth is vigorous and tree-like; the flowers are thin, with curious serrated margins and borne in terminal conical trusses; it is quite sterile.'
'A remarkable natural hybrid which originated here', but not given a cultivar name.
refs: Newry roses 39: 17 (1900); - no. 59: 39 (1903-1904); The Garden 64: 88 (1903).

(1998)  Page(s) 141.  
 
R. rugosa x rubiginosa            c. 1900
'the most beautiful of all fruiting roses; the bright sealing-wax like hips are borne in such profusion as to weight the branches down.'
'Another of my seedlings', but never selected for naming.
refs: Newry roses 39: 18 (1900); no. 59: 39 (1903-1904).

(1998)  Page(s) 139-140.  
 
Rosa chinensis 'Tipo Ideale'    c. 1920
syn. R. mutabilis Correvon, R. chinensis 'Mutabilis'; R. x odorata 'Mutabilis'
'This was found in the Garden of a distinguished Horticulturist (who is responsible for the name)' (Newry roses 1928-1929).
Thomas Smith marketed 'Tipo Ideale', described in 1921 by Lady Moore as having 'bright pink (blooms) with crimson shadows'-
'A little further up the path on a trellis of Larch poles a single climbing rose of unusual colour and shape is flourishing. Some years ago Lady Ross saw this remarkable rose in a small market garden ... in Italy and wisely brought home a plant. ... the flowers are not the usual cupped shape, but flattened with undulating petals something like rose 'Anemone', but flatter. The stems are very slender with delicately shaped leaves. It is flowering so freely one wondered where the cuttings so generously promised by Sir John Ross were to come from, but they have arrived. The name of this delightful rose is R. Tipo Ideale.'
'Tipo Ideale' had been 'discovered' by Lady Ross-of-Bladensburg growing in Baveno on the shores of Lago Maggiore in northern Italy, not far from Isola Bella, the famous residence of Prince Gilberto Borromeo. The prince evidently knew this rose, although then misnamed Rosa turca or Rosa turkestanica, because about 1895 he presented a plant to Henri Correvon, the Swiss gardener who, coincidentally praised Daisy Hill Nursery for its unequalled collections. Daisy Hill Nursery propagated it, and as eraly as 1929-1930 it was listed in the rose catalogue (see Thomas, A Garden of Roses, 62 (1987), who noted that as 'Mutabilis' this rose reached Britain in 1916). Eventually this lovely rose was identified as a cultivar of the China rose, Rosa chinensis, and today bears the name 'Mutabilis' (now (1997) listed in The RHS Plant Finder as R. x odorata 'Mutabilis') which Henri Correvon gave it ('Rosa mutabilis Corr.', Revue horticole n.s. 24: 60-61 (1934)), evidently not knowing that it already had a name.
For help in ascertaining the history of 'Tipo Ideale', I am grateful to Dr Cammarano Umberto, Borgomanero, Italy.
A stock plant of 'Tipo Ideale' was kept in a glasshouse at Daisy Hill, and it was known to the staff as the penny-farthing rose, but this nickname cannot now be explained (P.McCann, pers. comm.).
refs: Newry roses no 121: 19 (1928-1929); Moore, 'Roses at Rostrevor House', Irish Gardening 16: 97-98 (1921).
awards: AGM
PF [RHS Plant Finder] 1997 (as R. x odorata 'Mutabilis'): propagate vegetatively, by cuttings or grafting.