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Rose Breeder and Discoverer
Listing last updated on Wed Aug 2024
Homebush, New South Wales
Australia
2002 Richard Aitken & Michael Looker Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens
p85. Charles Bennett.(fl 1880-90s) landscape gardener and nursery proprietor, was apparently the son of well-known English rose-breeder Henry Bennett (1823-1890). He arrived in Sydney c1886 and by 1890 had established the Standard Nursery, Homebush. ....His Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Rose (1891), a modest but early Australian work on roses, elicited praise from ‘Mrs. Rolf Boldrewood’ in The Flower Garden in Australia (1893). RA.
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