Magazine  (Dec 2020)  Page(s) 17. Vol 42, No 4.  
 
More About the "Rookwood China".
Editor: On Barbara May’s list, passed on to Glennis Clark, Pastor Phillips is pencilled beside it. I take it as indicating that it was collectd from the grave of Pastor W. Phillips, who died in 1913, and his wife Catherine, died 1928. The grave now has only agapanthus.
Some sleuthing by HubertG reported on www.helpmefind.com: Catherine’s daughter from a previous marriage, Sarah (May) Liddy left for China in October 1906 as part of the China Inland Mission. Could she have sent plant material, including a big single red rose, back to her mother? May died in Ta-Ning in 1908, at about 26, of typhus fever. Poor Catherine, to be widowed twice and lose a daughter.
Patricia’s research: a rose was listed for sale as Sanguinea by a nursery in NSW in 1851, but without a description of it.
Since the “Rookwood China” isn’t Sanguinea, which was double, and there are other unknown Chinas at Rookwood, perhaps it could be re-titled according to the grave name convention - “Pastor Phillips” or “Catherine Phillips”. Or even “May Liddy”.

Magazine  (Mar 2020)  Page(s) 12. Vol 42, No. 1.  Includes photo(s).
 
Geoff Crowhurst.  Old Roses in Unexpected Places. 
[In Portugal] I saw....and a plant labelled R. chinensis Sanguinea, the latter a bright dark red single rose which grows at the Rookwood Cemetery and has been called "Rookwood China".  I think it deserves to be more widely grown. 
[Photo caption] Below, rose in commerce as Sanguinea (the original Sanguinea was double)

Magazine  (Dec 2019)  Page(s) 9, 40. Vol 41, No, 4.  
 
p9.  Sue Zwar.  An Update on the Heritage Rose Garden in Penola
I will also be including any extra Chinas that come my way, three so far – “Grandma Frederick’s Red Rose” originally from Nancy Rudgely, “Carlsruhe Red China”, which may be Louis-Philippe 1834, and the “Rookwood China”, thanks to Glennis Clark and the propagators of the Sydney group (and to Steve Beck for transporting it).

p40.  Blue Mountains/Nepean Regional Report. 
Glennis presented our group with a special rose "Rookwood China" to be cared for. 
[Ed: this was the name on the photo on p50 pf the journal 37:4, summer 2015/6 with Geoff Crowhurst's article, so I'll stay wih it.]

Magazine  (Sep 2019)  Page(s) 48. Vol 41, No. 3.  Includes photo(s).
 
Glennis Clark, Regional Report, Sydney.
Some of the roses in Barbara’s Garden at Rookwood have already started to flower so we hope we will have a good show for October. The single red China “Rookwood’s Not Sanguinea” (photo opposite) was in full bloom on 2nd September. We are very lucky that two of our clever propagators, Judith Oyston and Ros McLusky, have been able to strike this rose from cuttings and we have now planted two extra good-sized plants in the garden. 

photo caption:
Big single red China at Rookwood, most likely Bengal Crimson. Less likely Miss Lowe’s Variety, which starts pink and ages red. Not Sanguinea, which should be double..  

Magazine  (Sep 2016)  Page(s) 62. Vol 38, No. 3.  Includes photo(s).
 
Glennis Clark, Sydney Regional Report.
The jonquils are in full bloom, along the edge of the garden and that is normal for early August but "Rookwood's Sanguinea" is blooming....
p63. photo 

Magazine  (Dec 2015)  Page(s) 50. Vol 37, No. 4.  Includes photo(s).
 
Geoff Crowhurst.  Of Old Roses and History. 
in an earlier article I wrote that I didn't think Sanguinea existed in Australia, so I was very surprised to see what appeared to be this rose when spending a few hours at the Rookwood cemetery in Sydney last year. Pat Toolan has confirmed for me that Sanguinea is not included in the old rose collection at Renmark, although it should be.....
Photo caption: Rookwood China. 

Magazine  (2014)  Page(s) 37.  
 
Old Rose Survivors. Wild and Untamed.
Reverend Douglas T. Seidel. Rediscovering Mrs. Keays and the Roses of Creek Side.
She wrote in 1935: ....The red one was Sanguinea....
[Seidel: probably what we today call 'Miss Willmott's China" or "White Pearl in Red Dragon's Mouth", still to be found as an heirloom in south Florida).

Article (magazine)  (2007)  Page(s) 404.  
 
Table 1. Comparison of key volatile components in representative cultivated Chinese roses and species. [adsorption volume by Solid Phase Microextraction (peak area, x10')]
DMMB: 1,3-dimethoxy-5-methylbenzene
TMB: 1,3,5-trimehoxybenzene

'Sanguinea'
DMMB 1.65
TMB 11.2

Book  (2003)  Page(s) 171.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosie Atkins. Rosa chinensis Bengal Crimson
....What stopped me in my tracks on that misty morning as I walked up through the [Chelsea Physic] garden from the boathouse was not the olive tree or the banana, but a bush of burnished foliage beside the Swan Walk gate, covered with a mass of single magenta flowers. The label read Rosa chinensis 'Bengal Crimson'..... I was stunned by its beauty and wondered how it came to be there. I discovered that its history coincided with that of Chelsea Physic in several important ways. Its label recorded that the rose was introduced into cultivation in 1887, six years after the Worshipful Company of apothecaries ceased to be responsible for the management of the garden, though they have continued in close association to the present day. A plant had been donated to the garden under the name 'Rose de Bengal' by the garden of the Royal Horticultural Society at Wisley in 1983.... Many rosarians have tried to check the identity of the rose that graces the Swan Walk gate at Chelsea Physic Garden. Records show that it was initially determined to be R. chinensis 'Miss Lowe', but a taxonomist working at the garden identified it as R. chinensis 'Crimson Bengal' on the basis of information about its typical size and the color of its blooms supplied by Peter Barnes at Wisley. So the name Rosa chinensis 'Crimson Bengal' went on the label when the present plant was planted in 1986 by Duncan Donald, then Curator of the Garden.
After ten years editing a garden magazine, I know the importance of correct plant identification, and how fraught with anxiety the process can be. I well remember how the burden on our editorial shoulders was lightened when Dr. James Compton, then head gardener at Chelsea Physic Garden under Duncan Donald, agreed to come into the offices of Gardens Illustrated to check that plant names matched the pictures and made sense in the text of every issue. However, the welter of epithets surrounding 'Crimson Bengal,' including Rosa indica, R. sinica, and R. nankiniensis, might have worried even Dr. Compton. Varietally, it has been called 'Miss Lowe,' 'Miss Lowe's Variety,' Sanguinea and of course 'Bengal Crimson' and 'Crimson Bengal,' associating it with a number of other roses that are called "Bengal" simply because they initially reached Europe via India. In the midst of this nomenclatural muddle, I consulted Peter Beales, a great authority on roses in England and the proprietor of a great rose nursery. At his nursery, Simon White told me that our rose at Chelsea could safely be considered 'Bengal Crimson' but was, like its close relative Rosa chinensis 'Mutabilis,' quite tender (hardy barely to 10 degrees Fahrenheit) and, unlike that famous rose, was not particularly easy to propagate. Peter Beales's nursery had only six plants available when I placed my call.

Book  (2003)  Page(s) 355.  
 
Sanguinea China Rose. Origin c1824. Flower size 6cm (2.4in). Scent: medium and tea-like. Flowering: Continuous. Height 1.25m (4.1ft). Spread 1.25m (4.1ft). Hardiness Zone 7. Several different roses go under the name of 'Sanguinea'; all are single-flowered China roses. It is best considered as a group of closely related roses that come fairly true from seed. They all have striking, blood-red flowers that fade to a more crimson shade as they age. Their most distinctive characteristic is the way the petals are irregularly reflexed,so that the flowers seem to be held at unusual angles all over the surface of the plant. Sometimes they have a tiny patch of white at the centre, behind the wispy stamens. The plant is a bushy grower that will make a twiggy structure in hot climates and build up to as much as 2m (6.6 ft) in all directions, but it is more usually seen pruned much lower. It seldom exceeds 70cm (2.3ft) in cool climates. The leaves are dark and small, and the flowers are followed by small orange hips. 'Sanguinea' flowers continuously through every month of the year.