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Booklet (2008)
An Information List of all Varieties. p4
1963. Uncle Walter - 59/1995. Nicknamed Burgundy. For my uncle and Trustee, Walter Johnston. A truly wonderful man.
Book (2004) Page(s) 172. Includes photo(s).
'Uncle Walter....
Book (1996) Page(s) 84.
Uncle Walter (MACon) Large-flowered shrub... high-centred double blooms... RNRS Trial Ground Certificate 1963. McGredy (Northern Ireland) 1963... named for his uncle, nurseryman Walter Johnston.
Book (1994) Page(s) 113.
Uncle Walter Description... A bright crimson red that was first introduced as a Hybrid Tea but its vigour was an embarassment and it is now generally accepted as a shrub rose...
Book (Apr 1993) Page(s) 618.
Uncle Walter Hybrid Tea, crimson-scarlet, 1963, (MACon); 'Detroiter' x 'Heidelberg'; McGredy, S., IV. Description.
Book (Feb 1993) Page(s) 215. Includes photo(s).
Uncle Walter Large-flowered hybrid tea. Parentage: 'Detroiter' x 'Heidelberg'. (aka MACon) Northern Ireland 1963. Description and cultivation... flowers: deep scarlet...
Book (1993) Page(s) 402. Includes photo(s).
So mixed is the parentage of Modern Garden Roses that the results of a particular cross can be difficult to predict. Sam McGredy, seeking the huge, fire-red flowers of 'Schlossers Brilliant' on a sturdier plant crossed it with the Modern shrub Rose 'Heidelberg' and got 'Uncle Walter' in 1963. It was so vigorous that it was reclassified as a Modern Shrub - and as the plant mature the flowers shrank to middling size.
Book (1989) Page(s) 69.
John Martin. Shrub Roses Old and New. 'Uncle Walter' - Large shapely HT blooms of dark velvety unfading red.
Book (1986) Page(s) 60.
....and the tall red HT 'Uncle Walter' - all directly from 'Heidelberg'.
Book (1986)
p35. Editor. Standard Roses. ....but, generally, very tall growers, like 'Uncle Walter' are quite unsuitable for standards. However, a nurseryman has to live and, as long as people request this type of rose on a standard, the nurseryman will continue to grow them.
p77. Isobel Coulston, Ten Favourite Roses. In 1964 I bought 'Uncle Walter' (McGredy, 1963), because the fanfare heralded it as a vigorous bedding cultivar - er, shrub rose - er, pillar type - oh well, we'll settle for the climbing classification. Velvety red, always in flower, singly or in clusters, no spindly growth on this! It doesn't fade, burn or blue. Easily trained, it needs only the addition of scent....
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