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Modern Roses 12 lists this rose as extinct. There are at least two.
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Probably because someone wanted to reuse that name.
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Initial post 1 MAR 23 by Margaret Furness
The current owners tell me their family have grown it since 1942. The flowers are 3-5cm in diameter. They don't think it's scented, which argues against Lady Gay as an ID.
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Reply #1 of 8 posted 2 MAR 23 by Patricia Routley
Some people can smell roses. Others (like me) can’t.

There are two ‘Lady Gay’ roses listed in HelpMeFind.
Lady Gay (hybrid wichurana, Walsh, 1903) (Rosa wichuraiana Crép. synonym × Bardou Job)
Lady Gay (hybrid multiflora, Geschwind, 1905) (seedling of Crimson Rambler × Unknown)

Walsh’s rose is likely to be fragrant, because ‘Bardou Job’ was fragrant.
Geschwind’s rose is likely to not be fragrant, because Turner’s ‘Crimson Rambler’ wasn’t.

Despite Geschwind’s rose being classified as multiflora, (as is ‘Turner’s ‘Crimson Rambler’)
if the pollen parent of Geschwind’s rose was R. wichurana, the resulting offspring might look a wich as does
‘Evangeline’ and ‘Excelsa’. I wish we knew more about Geschwind’s ‘Lady Gay’.
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Reply #2 of 8 posted 6 MAR 23 by Palustris
Yes, it is true: we do not all detect fragrance in the same way. I can't detect China rose scent, but can detect the scent of most OGRs with a "damask" scent. I don't remember scent on 'Lady Gay', but it won't flower for another four months for me so can't check. I lost my own LG but know a big hedge of it an hour away. The Walsh roses that have scent that carries in the air are 'Evangeline' and 'Nokomis'.
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Reply #3 of 8 posted 27 MAR 23 by Patricia Routley
Margaret, I feel sure you have said somewhere (?private email) that “Loveday” is prickly.
Johno has sent me a 1969 Sedunarys Upper Murray Nursery catalogue. This nursery was at Loveday S.A. They listed ‘Pinkie Climbing’ which apparently is thornless.
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Reply #4 of 8 posted 27 MAR 23 by Margaret Furness
Yes wich-prickly: and once-flowering, so it's not Cl Pinkie.
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Reply #5 of 8 posted 27 MAR 23 by Patricia Routley
Thanks.
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Reply #6 of 8 posted yesterday by Margaret Furness
Palustris, would you please check whether Lady Gay is scented, if you can visit the hedge next month.
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Reply #7 of 8 posted yesterday by Palustris
It will be about six weeks before Lady Gay flowers here. I'm looking forward to the ramblers blooming.
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Reply #8 of 8 posted yesterday by Margaret Furness
Thank you.
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