'Mrs. E. G. Hill' rose References
Book (2006) Page(s) 214. 'Mrs. E. G. Hill'* [Swedish Unknown 12]. HT. Good reliable rebloom. Outstanding fragrance. Habit diagram 3 [e.g. 'La France'. The old HTs that more closely resemble their Tea rose parents are twiggy, compact, and bushy....] Soupert & Notting, 1905. [Provenance Sequoia] Pearl pink, bicolored with a deep carmine pink on the reverse of the petals. Very shapely and fragrant, lightly double flowers; Phillip speculates that this may be the old Hybrid Tea, 'Mrs. E. G. Hill' from 1906, by Soupert et Notting.
Book (Apr 1993) Page(s) 395. Mrs. E.G. Hill Hybrid Tea, alabaster-white, reverse rose-coral, 1906, 'Mme. Caroline Testout' x 'Liberty'; Soupert & Notting...
Book (1936) Page(s) 345. Hill, Mrs. E. G. (HT) Soup. & Nott. 1905; Testout X Liberty; alabaster-white, reverse coral-red, very large, double, fragrance 5/10, floriferous, autumn-bloomer, long stems, growth 7/10. Sangerhausen
Book (1934) Mrs. E. G. Hill (H.T.): Flower pale pink with coral-red reverse, pointed, full buds, Growth vigorous. Bed.
Book (1927) Page(s) 37. H. R. Darlington. Roses and Their Parentage….. It is, therefore, unexpected to find that from the mating of ‘Caroline Testout’ with ‘Liberty’, which is certainly a deep enough crimson, we should get the bicolour ‘Mrs. E. G. Hill’, which is a bright pink on the outside of the petal, and rosy white on the reverse. ‘Liberty’ itself, however, came from ‘Mrs. W. J. Grant’ x ‘General Jacqueminot’, and it is doubtless from the former of these, with Caroline’s white ancestry, that ‘Mrs. E. G. Hill’ takes her colour.
p40 ‘Mrs. E. G. Hill’. Colour: pink and flesh.
Book (1922) Page(s) 61. H. R. Darlington. Bedding Roses. ‘Mrs. E. G. Hill’ HT. Soupert et Notting, 1906). This beautiful Rose is one of the bi-colour type, resembling in colour the flowers of ‘Grand Duc Adolphe de Luxemburg’, but unlike that variety the blooms are carried upright. I used to consider this the most effective bedding Rose in my garden after ‘Mrs. Leon Pain’, and in wet weather superior to that Rose, and I have found little reason to alter my opinion. The flowers are rather more than semi-double and of beautiful form until quite expanded. It has the defect from the point of view of an exhibitor of decorative Roses that the flowers do not travel well, being apt to lose freshness, and the colour does not harmonise readily with some other Roses.
Website/Catalog (1921) Page(s) 21. ‘Mrs. E. G. Hill. HT. pale pink and coral red. Garden. Vig.
Website/Catalog (1921) Page(s) 30. Roses. Mrs. E. G. Hill, coral-red; class: Hybrid Tea; habit of growth: vigorous.
Book (1920) Page(s) 168. ‘Mrs. E. G. Hill’ Hybrid Tea. Pale pink, reverse of petals, coral red. Bush, standard, bedding. Vigorous.
Book (1919) p65. H. R. Darlington. The Best Twelve Bedding Roses. Shades of pink. 'Mrs. E. G. Hill' and.... These Roses may all be planted about 1-ft. 9-in. apart in rows, leaving about 1-ft. 6-in. between the rows. I have put 'Mrs. E. G. Hill' at the head of my list, for it is still the glory of my summer and autumn garden. It is to my mind a most beautiful flower; the outside of the petals is a deep reddish pink and the inside silvery blush. The blooms are not quite of sufficient substance for exhibition, but are beautifully shaped, and open almost as well in wet as in fine weather. They are carried on upright stems about 3-ft high in bunches of three or four, on sufficiently long stems to be allowed to open one after another without the necessity for disbudding. The growth of the plant is strong, but not too much so to make a good bed, and the foliage is large and well retained, not being much affected by disease. I have two beds of this Rose, one in a place where it receives a good deal of shade, and the other in a more sunny position, and the plants in the more shady position are slightly taller than those in the sunnier one.
p104. Mrs. H. R. Darlington. On Colour in Roses. ..., or as in 'Mrs. E. G. Hill' where a pale pink petal has a darker pink reverse, the result is very pleasant.
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