Booklet  (2022)  Page(s) 52-53.  Includes photo(s).
 
"Nantawarra Pink Tea"

Magazine  (Dec 2021)  Page(s) 33. Vol 43, No. 4.  Includes photo(s).
 
Lynne Chapman and Billy West. A Close Look at Tea Roses
4. Tea roses incorrectly identified, where we have suggested a probable identity. The plate of Mme Hoste from The Garden, 18945 shows a yellowish-white Tea rose but in Australia a very different, bright pink Tea rose is being sold under that name. How it came to be given such an obviously wrong name is not certain as even on its palest day it does not resemble the plate or early descriptions but it has been growing in the garden of a cottage in South Australia as Mme Hoste for many years. It bears likenesses to Maman Cochet, although the blooms are usually smaller and there are other differences. The parentage of Maman Cochet is Marie Van Houtte (seed) x Mme Lambard (pollen) and we have suggested this rose is another with the same parentage, Auguste Comte, 1895 (photo p. 63).

Many of you use the resources of the HelpMeFind website and here we encountered this rose as a foundling in Sardinia and also, to our surprise, discovered that it could be purchased under four different names in Europe: in Italy as Mme Scipion Cochet, and as Castello della Scala (a reintroduced rose); as Maman Cochet in the UK, and in France under the name Auguste Comte. It is also in the USA as we have seen it as one of the roses under the name Niles Cochet.

Website/Catalog  (21 May 2020)  
 
Mme. Hoste (Aus Clone)  Incorrectly named. Similar to Auguste Compte, maybe one of the maman cochet seedlings bred in Australia

Magazine  (2019)  Page(s) 49. Vol 41, No. 1.  
 
Margaret Furness.  Tea, Noisette and China Mislabels in Australia.
Mme Hoste should be yellow; what we have is Auguste Comte (pink / red).

Magazine  (2015)  Page(s) 28. Vol 37, No. 3.  
 
Hillary Merrifield, Billy West and Lynne Chapman. Renmark Repository April 2015.
Recorded on previous visits. Probably identities are given in brackets.
"Nantawarra Tea" (Auguste Comte).

Magazine  (Mar 2014)  Page(s) 16. Vol 36, No. 1.  
 
Shirley Yates.  Marysville Memorial Garden Official Opening. 
Margaret Furness has also been able to provide these for us from the David Ruston Collection:  "Chateau Yering Tea"....

Magazine  (2011)  Page(s) 30. Vol 33, No. 2..  Includes photo(s).
 
Geoff Crowhurst, Searching for Old Roses.
Luck plays a big part in finding old roses.  Recently I also had luck in finding an old rose at Yering Station in the Yarra Valley.  This property was the site of the first vineyard in Victoria, in 1838....

Book  (2011)  Page(s) 113.  Includes photo(s).
 
Hillary Merrifield. Mystery Tea Roses in Australia.
"Not Mme. Hoste" ("Hay Valley Tea", "Nantawarra Pink Tea"). This apricot to carmine tea with similarities to 'Maman Cochet' was planted in the early 1900s at Gamble Cottage, Blackwood, South Australia, and later identified and sold as the pale yellow 'Mme. Hoste', which it clearly was not. 'Auguste Comte' (1895), which has the same parentage as 'Maman Cochet' is the likely identification for this rose.

Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 344.  
 
Auguste Comte Tea. Soupert & Notting 1895

Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 62.  
 
Auguste Comte Tea. Soupert & Notting, 1895. From 'Marie Van Houtte' x 'Mme. Lambard'. The author cites information from different sources... madder pink, outer petals carmine red with a large darker border, center waxy flesh pink...