Website/Catalog  (1997)  Page(s) 3.  
 
The Australian Bicentennial Rose. 1986 Hybrid Tea. Bright red, fully double, fragrant blooms on a healthy and free-flowering bush to I.25m.

Book  (1996)  
 
p50 Australian Raised Roses Symposium. Mr. Colin Wood, Victoria. Australian Bicentennial Rose Hybrid tea, bright red rose, a medium sized bush which has nice, bright, healthy foliage. Shows very little signs of black spot.

p51 ibid. Mr. Doug Bowerman, Tasmania. Australian Bicentennial Rose HT. A very tall vigorous growing bush of dark green foliage and always seems to have many rich red roses on it.

p54 ibid. Mr. Allan Read, NSW. His [Ron Bell’s] red Australian Bicentennial Rose and …. also do well on the show bench in Victoria.

p66 ibid. Mr. Peter Munro. Tasmania. Feeling patriotic at the time I planted The Australian Bicentennial Rose, a vigorous, healthy bush with lots of nice fragrant red roses all looking at the ground. They had a good view of the spade.

Book  (1996)  
 
p13 ‘Australian Bicentennial Rose’ (‘The Australian Bicentennial Rose’) Bell, Australia, 1986. HT. Red. [available from] Cottage, Golden Vale, Monbulk, Otway.

p148 ‘The Australian Bicentennial Rose’ ( ‘Australian Bicentennial Rose’) Bell, Australia, 1986. HT. Red. [available from] Cottage, Golden Vale, Monbulk, Otway.

Newsletter  (1996)  Page(s) 9. Vol 5, No. 3.  
 
Australian Bicentennial Rose HT. 1987, R. J. Bell.

Book  (Sep 1993)  Page(s) 61.  Includes photo(s).
 
Australian Bicentennial ('The Australian Bicentennial Rose') Large-flowered. R.J. Bell 1988. Description... red. Parentage undisclosed.

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 601.  
 
The Australian Bicentennial Hybrid Tea, medium to deep red, 1987, 'Daily Sketch' seedling x 'Red Planet'; Bell, R.J. Description.

Book  (1992)  Page(s) 77.  
 
Mr. J. L. Priestly. New Rose Registrations. Australian Bicentennial Rose. HT. R. J. Bell. Year of Registration 1987.

Book  (1991)  Page(s) 131.  
 
Jim Priestly. Pruning Rose Plants For Public Garden Displays. Moderate to Heavy pruning. Aust. Bi Centennial Rose.

Book  (1990)  Page(s) 113.  
 
Ron Bell. What’s In a Name. ….An important event is often a good opportunity to produce a rose to celebrate the occasion and can have a big effect on sales. The Australian Bicentennary was such an occasion and the Bicentennary Authority requested the selected rose be named The Australian Bicentennial Rose to mark the event. This name although rather a mouthful assured the sales of the rose for the benefit of the Rose Convention held in Sydney.

Book  (1989)  Includes photo(s).
 
p68 Photo. The Australian Bicentennial Rose. This beautiful red rose which was bred by Mr. Ron Bell of Harkaway, Victoria, was displayed in the foyer during the convention. Photo S. Waller.

p71 Barry Johnson. The Birth of a Bicentennial Rose Garden. The garden has been designed to emphasize certain themes, qualities and historical aspects of rose culture. Of course, the first and foremost consideration was the main reason for the creation of the rose garden – The Australian Bicentenary which, has not only been signified by the inclusion of the mandatory commemorative plaque, but also by a display of the beautiful Australian Bicentennial Rose which, completely surrounds the central gazebo. The ‘Bicentennial Rose’ has a medium red colour, with good substance, vigour and fragrance as was hybridised by Mr. Ron Bell of Harkaway, Victoria.