(1978)  Page(s) 100.  
 
`Baccara'   Medium  +   Vermilion    Remontant  P1   H1    * 
The famous  rose of the flower shops, with scarlet vermilion flowers. Sometimes they seem to be on stems as long as walking sticks. It is a little past its zenith, because it is not considered by the greenhouse men to be sufficiently generous in supplying blooms when  they compare it with roses which have been introduced since. This will stop neither the florists nor the public from asking for `Baccara' for years to come. In fact the breeder has pointed out that all his investment in making the name  so famous, and the pleasure the public have in it, ought to be preserved by using Baccara Mark  2, or Baccara 1980 or some such device upon the improved one when he finds it. 
`Baccara'  needs greenhouse conditions to be worth growing in a cold climate. It is a waste of time to grow it out of doors in Britain, except in some exceptionally well favoured spot. The only  good `Baccara' I ever saw in the open in England were growing between two greenhouses.  I have often said that if we had raised it at Hitchin, it would have ended its first year's field trial leading the race to the bonfire by several lengths. Yet this rose may have earned for Meilland even more money than 'Peace' did. 
It was raised by Francis Meilland from 'Happiness' x 'Independence', according to the record given, and introduced in 1954. The world of cut roses is quite separate from that of garden roses: the investment is high, the income is at the risk of market prices, which  may respond  to abundance   or scarcity more than to quality. The breeder of a cut flower variety must prove it by growing and marketing it. He must know how it yields, travels and sells. When he can place convincing evidence before the trade, people will begin to plant his rose in their greenhouses.  Some years ago I was  in Holland in the winter, and watched part of an order for 1,300,000 plants of `Baccara' being grafted. This was at one nursery, in the evening, when all sorts of people  from the village, having finished their ordinary work came to earn some extra money   by grafting. I was informed that the royalty payment equalled just under a shilling, which lasted for the life of the plant, an average probably of seven years or a little over. All the same, if I was correctly informed, a royalty of about £60,000 was involved  in that contract.

(1978)  Page(s) 159.  
 
…..Henceforward  the Polyantha class, with all its beauty, was to be represented by roses of different character, such as 'Ballerina', which follows.  
 
'Ballerina'  Medium   +  Light pink    Remontant  P1    H2   *** 
A splendid, dense plant, often with a squared-off look, and nearly always in good health and vigour. The flowers are small and single, light pink with a white eye; when a basal shoot arises, it bears a huge head of them, like a mop. This  rose went unnoticed by most British nurserymen, until Fryers of Knutsford had the perception to advance it. A group of plants can form a handsome clump.  No doubt  this was one of Pemberton's seedlings, for it was introduced by his successor, J. A. Bentall, in 1937. We have no information as to its parents…..
Mozart'…..varies from 'Ballerina' in having a deeper pink around its white eye
'Belinda', which came from Bentall in 1936….slightly taller…looks like a sister of 'Ballerina'.

(1978)  Page(s) 159.  
 
Slightly taller than both 'Ballerina' and 'Mozart', and also charming, is 'Belinda', which came from Bentall in 1936, and 
looks like a sister of 'Ballerina'. 

(1978)  Page(s) 147.  
 
'Belle Portugaise' Climber    Pink  Midsummer     P3  H2 
Given a warm wall and some shelter, this can be grown outdoors in England, as was successfuly shown for some years  at the Royal Horticultural Society's gardens in Wisley. But the operation will normally be at risk in cold climates; it is a rose for places like California and the Canary Islands, or even the south of France. It was raised by Henri Cayeux, of the Lisbon Botanical Garden, and introduced in 1903 or shortly after. Both the dates and parentages vary in different authorities, but there is agreement that one of the parents was R. gigantea. This climber is light pink, with the outside of the petals deeper; the flowers are double, and open loosely, that is to say the large petals are well apart. It has a silky look of summer about  it. The English version 'Belle of Portugal' is sometimes used, although no great linguistic difficulty would seem to be solved thereby. 

(1978)  Page(s) 151.  
 
'Bennett's Seedling'   Trailer    White    Summer 
This double white was raised by Mr Bennett, gardener to Lord Manners at Thoresby in Nottinghamshire; and was also known as `Thoresbyana'. It was a double form of R. arvensis, white, with a good reputation for freedom of flower. Introduced in 1840

(1978)  Page(s) 120.  
 
Priors of Colchester had a distinguished career, in which they won the Nurserymens'
Championship of the National Rose Society, and bred two of the best Floribundas of the 1930s 'Donald Prior' and 'Betty Prior'.
'Betty Prior' was single and pink, not at first sight a glamorous rose; but she had two great qualities, of insistence to bloom, and of hardiness. She is still widely grown in the United States, and in those parts of Europe where hardiness is essential. She was a seedling of `Kirsten Poulsen', introduced in 1935.

(1978)  Page(s) 84.  
 
'Betty Uprichard'    Medium Pink   & red  Remontant    P3  H4    ** 
An excellent rose raised by Alexander Dickson and introduced in 1922. The outside of the petals is carmine and the inside pink, the two colours happily contrasted. Although the flowers are not very large, the plants grow so well and bloom so freely that 'Betty Uprichard' was a leading garden rose for nearly thirty years. From the nurseryman's point of view, the plants easily branch from the union and grow fairly upright; these qualities are much appreciated, because not only are nearly all the plants fit to sell, but they are also easy to pack. This latter factor ensured that 'Betty Uprichard' was on the shelves in the big stores long after it had been abandoned by the general nursery trade. 

(1978)  Page(s) 209.  
 
'Bicolor' Short Pink & white Late spring
It is possible, though not certain, that this is one of the earliest Scotch Roses, for a list in 1822 refers the 'Large Double Two-Coloured Scotch Rose' to R. spinosissima bicolor; Modern Roses 7 refers the varieties 'Grahamstown' and 'Staffa' here, so the message seems to be, when in doubt call it bicolor; there has been much doubt in identifying Scotch Roses.

(1978)  Page(s) 183.  
 
Blanche Moreau  Tall, white, midsummer, P3,  H1. *
A good white Moss rose, with dark leaves for its class, a help to the colour.  The mossy growth is also dark, which renders it less dainty and conspicuous than one might wish.  Lanky growth. The name does not mean white moss, but refers to the raisers, Moreau-Robert, of Angers, France.  They raised it from 'Comtesse du Murinais' x 'Quatre Saisons Blanc', and introduced it in 1880. 

(1978)  Page(s) 161.  
 
'Paul's Scarlet Climber' ..... In the United States, a form called 'Blaze' was raised by Joseph Kallay of Painesville, Ohio, and introduced by J. & P. in 1932. It was supposed to be remontant, but we in Britain could not see any difference from the original.