(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 23, 26, 124.  
 
The big four [roses of Harry Wheatcroft's] time: 'Peace', 'Super Star', 'Queen Elizabeth' and 'Fragrant Cloud'.
p. 26: Peace The most famous rose of them all.... [Wheatcroft] was first to introduce her to Great Britain and over the years [he] sold more specimens of 'Peace' than any other rose. Perhaps a million wouldn't be an overestimate... 'Peace' has become the greatest rose bestseller of all time. Nor merely [in Great Britain], but throughout the world.
p. 124: resents too much pruning

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 128.  
 
Percy Thrower [One of Harry Wheatcroft's selections of the Best Hybrid Teas.] Description... silvery pink, deeper towards centre... Trial ground certificate, Britain.

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 128.  
 
Pink Favourite [One of Harry Wheatcroft's selections of the Best Hybrid Teas.] Parentage: ('Juno' x seedling 'George Arends') x 'New Dawn'. Description... silvery rose pink... Produces a wonderful show in the garden, yet, when disbudded, probably achieves more 'best of show' blooms in the United Kingdom than any other variety...

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 44.  
 
Prima Ballerina [One of Harry Wheatcroft's selections of the Best Hybrid Teas.] Description... One of the indispensables!

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 23.  
 
The big four [roses of Harry Wheatcroft's] time: 'Peace', 'Super Star', 'Queen Elizabeth' and 'Fragrant Cloud'.

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 24-26.  
 
Queen Elizabeth... raised by Dr. Walter E. Lammerts, of Livermore, California... He had begun work on it just after the war, crossing 'Charlotte Armstrong', a tall-growing blood-red hybrid tea of his own breeding, with 'Floradora', a red floribunda raised by the Tantaus in Germany... the American plants of 'Queen Elizabeth' were all much bigger than anything [Wheatcroft himself had] ever seen the variety achieve in [England]... budded on multiflora stocks, which always produce an outsize root system, they were three or four times the size of [the plants in England] in every way... fragrance is all that it lacks...

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 124.  
 
Red Planet [One of Harry Wheatcroft's selections of the Best Hybrid Teas.] parentage includes 'Red Devil' and 'Brilliant'; scarlet shaded crimson, paler reverse...

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 137.  
 
[Svend Poulsen] used 'Orléans Rose', reputed to be another Mme. Levavasseur' seedling, crossed with another crimson hybrid tea, 'Red Star', a semi-double. They produced 'Else [Poulsen'] and 'Kirsten Poulsen', which in 1924 were to set the whole rose world on the trail of new wonders...

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 126.  
 
Reg Willis [One of Harry Wheatcroft's selections of the Best Hybrid Teas.] Description... deep carmine or light crimson, its flower quality is outstanding... One for the exhibitor but equally at home in a display bed...

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 24-26.  
 
'Queen Elizabeth'... raised by Dr. Walter E. Lammerts, of Livermore, California... He had begun work on it just after the war, crossing 'Charlotte Armstrong', a tall-growing blood-red hybrid tea of his own breeding, with 'Floradora', a red floribunda raised by the Tantaus in Germany... the American plants of 'Queen Elizabeth' were all much bigger than anything [Wheatcroft himself had] ever seen the variety achieve in [England]... budded on multiflora stocks, which always produce an outsize root system, they were three or four times the size of [the plants in England] in every way... fragrance is all that it lacks...