Book  (1985)  
 
p105. Nola Murray. Latched on to Latchers. ....It is a noble thing indeed to grow climbers. Certainly there are the great avalanches of bloom, but there is also the hassle of avoiding the pricks and tears at pruning time especially when one such as that gay dog 'Uncle Walter' (a natural climber), who positively winks at me, demands drastic treatment if he's to be kept in hand.

p131. Notes from the Panel Discussion held at the National Autumn [Show], Otago.
Question: Do nurserymen use any particular criteria when choosing which varieties to bud as standards?
Just running down their list, we don't think they use any! The panel did question the wisdom when considering such varieties as 'Uncle Walter'....

Book  (1984)  Page(s) 105.  
 
Nola Murray. Roses on Stilts. ....I've even seen standards of 'Uncle Walter' for sale and have wondered how the unsuspecting purchasers would get on with him.

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 48.  
 
Uncle Walter. A very tall, bright red. Shapely flowers in large trusses borne on long branches. Almost a shrub Rose. Very tall. McGredy 1963

Book  (1980)  Page(s) 10.  
 
Marie Perry. Other Peoples' Gardens. ....against the garage wall 'Uncle Walter' is spreading and sprawling with his strong clusters of dark red flowers.

Book  (1978)  
 
p19. Dr. Joan Walton. The 100th Bulls Rose show. ....Mr. Sam McGredy gave a dozen of beer which was awarded to the three best blooms of the community Rose 'Uncle Walter'.

p87. Dawn Chisholm. Roses from Cuttings. Start with one that roots easily such as ..... and 'Uncle Walter'.

Website/Catalog  (1976)  Page(s) 25.  
 
ONCLE WALTER ® (Macon) Fleurs grandes et doubles, d'une forme parfaite, rouge écarlate cramoisi, constant jusqu'à la défloraison. Très résistant. 1 m/1 m 20. Fleurit toute la saison.

[no longer listed in 1977]

Book  (1973)  Page(s) 126.  
 
Pam Bartrum. South Canterbury Rose Society. An Affair with Uncle Walter.
After struggling for years to keep my two bushes of 'Uncle WaIter' planted in 1966 and 1968 within bounds in a bed of other bush roses, I did some fast talking and my husband said "yes" to the idea of putting up some sort of support to screen off the vegetable garden. It was duly erected in the autumn of 1970 made up of piping and four inch mesh. six foot high by twenty eight foot long. I had let the bushes of 'Uncle Waiter' have their head and by the time shifting conditions came along, they were twelve to fourteen foot high, tied up with rope to protect them from the nor'westers. Fred and the wheelbarrow came to the fore again and without much trouble both bushes(?) were transplanted to their new abode. With ground well firmed down, the ties were removed and each 'Uncle WaIter' fanned out like a peacock's tail. At this stage all old wood was cut out and the new season's growth tied down most obligingly. First flowering in Nov.-Dec. produced seventy to one hundred perfect blooms on each bush. At the time of South Canterbury Rose Society's "Mini-Convention" near the end of January 1971 second flowering was just starting and visitors were able to see the promise of things to come. The profusion of beautiful blooms in the autumn was a dazzling sight and I got quite used to the amazed gasps when visitors or groups went round the corner of the house. Do I dare say it, but there was definitely quite a perfume in the air. Now it is the beginning of August and the two climbers (it doesn't seem right to call them bushes) have just been pruned. The oldest one had grown eight strong new shoots approximately ten foot long and the younger has produced fifteen glorious new shoots even longer which gave me the problem of where to tie them in. Finally I had to sacrifice three of the ones that were growing out the front. It seems that at long last 'Uncle Walter' and I have come to terms.

Book  (1971)  Page(s) 156.  
 
Uncle Walter 1963. Parentage: 'Brilliant' [aka 'Detroiter'] x 'Heidelberg'. High-centred, crimson-scarlet hybrid tea. Nord-Rose Award Winner, Scandinavia. Gold Medal, Copenhagen.

Book  (1971)  Page(s) 91.  
 
Uncle Walter is named for Walter Johnston, who was mainly responsible for keeping the McGredy nursery in being during the twenty years of [Sam McGredy IV's] minority.

Book  (1971)  Includes photo(s).
 
p33 One of my problems is to imagine what my roses will do in the hot sunshine of California or for that matter of Spain and other warm, sunny countries, how or whether they will flourish there as well as they do in temperate climates. Sometimes they flourish too much. A plant that would grow to about four feet high here, which I would call a big plant, like 'Uncle Walter' might grow to twelve or fifteen feet in a hot climate, and that would please no one.

p44 b/w illustration 'Uncle Walter'.

p91 'Uncle Walter' is named for Walter Johnston, who was mainly responsible for keeping the McGredy nursery in being during the twenty years of my minority.

p142. My rose 'Uncle Walter' is a mammoth plant, growing to five feet and bearing a deep red bloom, which is outstanding in most moist, cool climates; it was the product of a new way of breeding hybrid teas back through climbers.

p156. 1963. 'Uncle Walter'. 'Brilliant' x 'Heidelberg'. High-centered, crimson-scarlet hybrid tea. Nord-Rose Award Winner, Scandinavia. Gold Medal, Copenhagen.