(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 23-24.  
 
The big four [roses of Harry Wheatcroft's] time: 'Peace', 'Queen Elizabeth', 'Fragrant Cloud' and 'Super Star'... sparkling salmon-vermilion... [Mathias Tantau told Wheatcroft:] "My father began this particular cross twenty years ago. Over the years, we have raised 100,000 seedlings carrying this strain -- and had to discard them all. Now we have just these three..."

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 125.  
 
Summer Holiday [One of Harry Wheatcroft's selections of the Best Hybrid Teas.] Introduced in Britain in 1969. Description... dark vermilion, ['Lucy] Cramphorn'-type flowers...

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 23-24.  
 
The big four [roses of Harry Wheatcroft's] time: 'Peace', 'Queen Elizabeth', 'Fragrant Cloud' and 'Super Star'... sparkling salmon-vermilion... [Mathias Tantau told Wheatcroft:] "My father began this particular cross twenty years ago. Over the years, we have raised 100,000 seedlings carrying this strain -- and had to discard them all. Now we have just these three..." [seven years later, Wheatcroft exhibited 'Super Star' to the world at his stand at the Royal Horticultural Show at Chelsea.]... Mathias wanted to call it 'Ilse Tantau', after his wife... [Wheatcroft suggested the name 'Super Star'.]

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 125.  
 
Super Star [One of Harry Wheatcroft's selections of the Best Hybrid Teas.] Description... intense light-bright vermilion... flowering as freely off side-shoots as off basal stems... Bagatelle Gold Medal 1960...

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 71.  
 
A freak stem from the scarlet and gold bicolour "Tzigane' gave us the copper coloured Val Boughey.

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 32.  
 
'Ena Harkness', one of the finest roses of our time, was raised by an amateur, Mr. Albert Norman, whose real job was connected with diamond cutting in Hatton Garden. But his success with 'Ena' was no fluke, for he also gave us 'Frensham', for many years the best seller among floribundas, and he later produced 'Isobel Harkness', 'Ann Elizabeth', 'Vera Dalton', and others.

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 126.  
 
Wendy Cussons [One of Harry Wheatcroft's selections of the Best Hybrid Teas.] Introduced in England in 1959. Description... cerise flushed scarlet... One of the great British roses of my time, almost impossible to fault. If only it had been born dark red and in the age of British patents, my neighbour, Walter Gregory, must have made a fortune from it...

(8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 10.  
 
I can sympathise, too, with my neighbour Walter Gregory when his Wendy Cussons came deep rose-cerise, instead of the pure red it so easily could have been. Walter has raised many fine roses. Wendy is perhaps the finest of them