(2008)  
 
p135. ‘Souvenir d’Elisa Vardon’ was popular in Australia in the past, especially for exhibition purposes, but we have been unable to find any trace of it here at the present time.

p224. Australian Tea Sports. 1904. Climbing Souvenir de Elise Vardon. C. H. Halstead, NSW.

(2008)  Page(s) 188.  
 
The rose in commerce in Australia today as the Tea 'Souvenir d'un Ami' introduced by Belot-Defougeres, France, 1846, is not the original rose.....

(2008)  Page(s) 188.  
 
The rose in commerce in Australia today as the tea 'Souvenir d'un Ami' introduced by Belot-Defougeres, France, 1846 is not the original rose.....The rose now sold here [in Australia] as 'Souvenir d'un Ami' was imported from New Zealand, where it had been found and named by Nancy Steen (Steen 1966). The same rose has been photographed in 2001 in the Huntington collection in California under the name 'Mme. de Tartas'.....[description]

(2008)  Page(s) 192.  
 
The rose in commerce in Australia today as the Tea 'Triomphe du Luxembourg', Hardy/Sylvain-Pean, France 1835, is not the original rose....A distinctive feature of this rose [in Australia] is the purplish black colour often evident on the prickles and branches, with the older branches being particularly dark. It is densely armed with prickles that vary in size and can be wide-based or quite fine The foliage is strong and healthy with coppery new leaves that turn dark green with maturity but retain red edges and veining for some time, so that the coarse leaf serrations appear to be picked out in red......Overseas, this striking rose has been equated with 'Rhodologue Jules Gravereaux' (Lowery & Robinson 2006).

(2008)  Page(s) 208-209.  
 
L. Arthur Wyatt was the last editor of the English periodical The Rose, which facilitated an international tracing service for roses no longer in commerce through a regular column named 'Lost and Found'. After The Rose ceased publication in 1969, Wyat continued this tracing work privately....By 1975, Wyatt was offering 136 cultivars...but ill health brought his enterprise to a halt. Most of his records were discarded and the rose collection was lost. It was reassembled in Castle Howard by James Russell, and the efforts of nurseryman Peter Beales saw much of Wyatt's collection returned to commerce...
First offered in 1974 list...
93 Triomphe du Luxembourg (Tea)

[This is the possible source of misidentification of 'Rhodologue Jules Gravereaux' as 'Triomphe du Luxembourg'.]

(2008)  Page(s) 194.  
 
[much more to be read here]
.....We have considered and discounted the Teas 'Beryl', 'Comtesse de Frigneuse' and 'Mme. Chedane Guinoisseau' because our rose does not match early illustrations and descriptions....

(2008)  Page(s) 34.  
 
Macarthur's nursery enterprise [Camden Park] thrived and his roses were widely distributed.....The Tea roses Vicomtesse Decazes  and .... were part of a consignment from Veitch's  Nursery, brought out from England by Captain P. P. King in 1849

(2008)  Page(s) 150.  Includes photo(s).

(2008)  Page(s) 196-197.  Includes photo(s).
 
William R. Smith  Breeder: Bagg, USA, 1908. Parentage : 'Maman Cochet' (T) x 'Mme Hoste' (T).  Synonyms: 'Charles Dingee', 'Jeanette Heller' and others.   Also known in Australia as "Dr. Grill" and "Bishop's Lodge Amelia Anderson (Aimee)" (ROR)  .....no hip seen....with so many petals, the stamens and carpels are not visible when the flower is fully open.  The receptacle is large, smooth and cup-shaped, with a few white hairs near the base, and does not appear to develop into a mature hip. 

(2008)  Page(s) 201.  Includes photo(s).