Yellow Mutabilis

Unique to us in the UK. Seedling of the famous China with many of the parents' attributes, except that of colour which is soft yellow fading to cream and has smaller flowers. Suitable for growing in warmer climates.

Viridiflora

(China) 'The Green Rose' A strange rose, really a novelty or collector's specimen. Flowers of drab green, tinted brown, very unusual.

Sophie's Perpetual

(China) An old rose of unknown origin. Shapely, double, silver and pink cupped flowers. Scented.

Perle D'Or

(China) Clusters of buff-peach flowers. Small, shapely, fully double, perfumed blooms on a vigorous slender plant. Rich green foliage. Suitable for growing in a warmer climate.

Old Blush (Bush)

(China) Small, semi-double, silvery-pink, spicy scented flowers with a deeper flush. Upright growth.

Louis XIV

(China) Fully double flowers of very dark purple-red almost black, with a good fragrance. Fine slender habit.

Irene Watts

(China) Very double, pale pink flowers with deeper centres and a pleasant fragrance. Fairly dwarf and hardy. This is a lovely little rose and I grow to like it more and more each year.

Cécile Brünner (Bush)

(China) 'Maltese Rose', 'Sweetheart Rose'. A free flowering delicate soft pink with small blooms of H.T. shape. Good for button holes. Low bushy growth.

Cécile Brünner (Climber)

(China) This climbing rose will grow and grow, in almost any position. Its flowers, which are similar in all respects to its bush parent, are produced freely. Abundant foliage.

Papillon

Unique to us in the UK. (China) Predominantly pink with white and copper reflections from the deeper base. A good but little known China.

Old Blush (Climber)

(China) The climbing form of this very old China produces clusters of silvery-pink flowers on a pliable but somewhat spindly plant. Particularly good on walls but not really suitable for pergolas.

Old Crimson China

Unique to us in the UK. (China) 'Slater's Crimson' (Rosa chinensis semperflorens). Bright red single flowers on an upright, bushy slender plant. Suitable for growing in a warmer climate.

Le Vesuve

(China) Shapely buds opening loose and blowsy, silvery-pink with deeper shadings. Good under glass.

Spray Cécile Brünner

(China) Previously sold as Bloomfield Abundance. Small Pink Hybrid Tea type blooms, which flower in profusion over a vigorous plant, similar growing form of Cecile Brunner but somewhat taller.