(1984)  Page(s) 73.  
 
....Careful selection has made the HT what it is today. In many of the early varieties the flowers were lacking in petals and opened rather formless. “Betty Uprichard’, enormously popular in the 1920’s, was an example of this.

(1984)  Page(s) 36.  
 
'Complicata' is a most unlikely gallica in every possible way. Nobody seems at all sure of its parentage and as it is thought that R x macrantha hort. (which ‘Complicata’ much more closely resembles) may come into the lineage too, it would have seemed more sensible to have given this side of the family precedence. A botanist may have reasons for not doing so, but they are not obvious. It is a strange name because 'Complicata' has some of the simplest and least complicated of single blooms of great beauty, like saucers of the most delicate, translucent porcelain. Fully 4 in (10cm) across, brilliant pink paling to a white eye, and with golden stamens, they are carried at midsummer all along the enormously vigorous canes. These love to ramble up and through surrounding shrubs and small trees or, if isolated, 'Complicata' will make an enormous, mounding bush fully 8 ft by 8 ft (2.4m by 2.4m). There are healthy, matt, rather pointed leaves, which are nothing like the rather rounded gallic type.

(1984)  Page(s) 124.  
 
'Cornelia'. Pemberton, 1925. This is the first of the hybrid musks in our list that can be reliably credited to Pemberton, and it is one of his best. It carries, over a very long season, large trusses of quite small, double, almost pompon-style flowers in strawberry-pink with perhaps a touch of apricot. They are fragrant and appear against dark-green leaves on a wide-spreading bush that will probably reach 5 ft (1.5m) or so in height. The autumn show of colour will be particularly fine if some dead-heading is carried out, although there is a chance that the late flowers may be accompanied by mildew, so you should spray too. A good rose for a hedge provided that you can cope with its width - which I have not given as it will vary so much. However, you would certainly have to allow for 5 ft (1.5m).

(1984)  Page(s) 80.  
 
'Elizabeth Harkness'. Harkness, 1969. 'Red Dandy' x 'Piccadilly'. Nobody knows better than a rose breeder how capricious nature can be, but I wonder if even Jack Harkness, who raised this rose, expected a red cluster-flowered variety and the red and yellow 'Piccadilly' to produce between them the very elegant ivory-white large-flowered bush rose he was to call after his daughter. There is sometimes a pink tinge to the petals and I have seen this become much more pronounced as the flowers age, although it does not always seem to happen. An attraction is that the blooms, carried both singly and in small clusters, come earlier than most and continuity from then onwards is well up to average. Not a great deal of scent, unfortunately, and weather resistance could be better. Although making a medium-sized and reasonably bushy plant, I would describe this as a rose of only moderate vigour, which was cut back badly in the extreme cold of the few nights during the winter of 1981-2 in the UK which provided a testing time for so many plants. The semi-glossy, mid-green leaves are of average health. An RNRS Certificate of Merit was awarded in 1969.

(1984)  Page(s) 144.  
 
 A very close relative of R. wichuraiana, R. luciae appears to have been used to produce a small group, of which ‘Alberic Barbier’ and ‘Albertine’ are the most familiar and which can best be described as coming halfway between ramblers and climbers.   They flower earlier than the other ramblers, their flowers are bigger and in smaller clusters, their canes are stiffer,  and they do not just produce new growth from ground level, which means their pruning has to be different.   Yet by ancestry they are ramblers, and they are not recurrent.   The French firm of Barbier was instrumental in breeding many of the best ramblers round about the turn of the century and they rapidly became enormously popular. 

(1984)  Page(s) 72.  
 
Mme. Bravy.  1846.  Creamy-white flushed pink.