Magazine  (Dec 2020)  Page(s) 30. Vol 42, No. 4.  Includes photo(s).
 
Photo caption.  Below, Hadley. Probably the same as “Bishop’s Lodge Muriel Linton”. Tall bush. Rose-show writers complained that it blued, but the royal purple it reaches can be lovely. Photo: Hillary Merrifield.

Article (newspaper)  (Nov 2015)  Page(s) 2.  
 

Patricia Routley:  ‘Hadley’ the 1914 rose was bred by Alexander W. Montgomery, a Scotsman who migrated to America.  He managed Waban Conservatories, Massachusetts, a company that specialized in florists’ cut roses.   ‘Hadley’ was a long-stemmed, perfumed red rose and there was no doubt that Mr. Montgomery must have been very proud of it to name it after his home town.   Because of the solitary stems that lasted a long time in water, and its fine fragrance, it was in great demand in the florist shops.  I find it interesting that a florists’ rose had fragrance.  As a general rule, good fragrance only comes with a weak neck and florists want strong upright roses with a pedicel like a Roman column. (I asked my local florist what rose lovers would send these days and the reply was ‘First Red’, a 1988 rose which has no perfume at all.  It looks a screeching scarlet to me.)   In Sydney in 1938 the rich crimson ‘Hadley’ was the backbone of the cut flower industry.  But eventually when people began to note that the rose “blued” as it got older or in cooler conditions, some smart-alec started calling the rose Montgomery’s Mistake.  I don’t think this insult made any difference to the success of the rose but the dislike of red roses that turned beetroot purple was long ingrained.  Mostly I just love this purpling and I find it a very rich colour.   ‘Hadley’ had impeccable parents:  [‘Liberty’ x ‘Richmond’] x ‘General MacArthur’.   Breeders went wild with it and there were 48 first-generation descendants, breeding further on to a total of 3,334 descendants at last count.  ’Hadley’ loved hot conditions and unfortunately a 101 year-old hybrid tea on its own roots, does not grow well in coolish Northcliffe.  But it tried.   In the late nineties, it came into my garden three times.  First from the Pinjarra Heritage Rose Garden in 1998; then in 1999 someone gave me a cutting of “Bishop’s Lodge Muriel Linton” from Hay, NSW (perhaps the thin stems misled people there into thinking it was a tea rose); and the last one was given to me by Maureen Scherini in 2001 and this was originally from John Wheatley’s property, west of Bridgetown.   Co-incidentally these three roses were all planted fairly close together in the Great Southern bed where I was concentrating these luscious crimson colours.  That was excellent for later confirming they were all the same rose, but I wish I had given at least one some different conditions.  The Wheatley clone is now almost dead, and the Bishop’s Lodge and Pinjarra clones have never grown much.  For me, the identification came when Maureen Scherini was showing me the old roses at the Bridgetown Bowling Club and I recognized my rose.  Mrs. Hadley, who then owned the Bridgetown Nursery, had given the Bowling Club a bush of ‘Hadley’ years ago.   It is wonderful to meet people who conserve these little pearls of information that are so important in the identifying of old roses.   A foray into the books later confirmed the salient points of ‘Hadley’ - its signature characteristics are the blue-ing, the long vase life, excellent perfume and the very thin long stems.   

Magazine  (2015)  Page(s) 17. Vol 37, No. 2.  
 
Margaret Furness. If I Could Only Grow Ten Roses.
I'm impressed with the vase life, if cut as a bud, of "Bishop's Lodge Muriel Linton", which David Ruston and John Nieuwesteeg say is 'Hadley' (1914). And it smells as a red rose should. Rose-show people of its time complained that it blued, but I like the royal purple it becomes. It makes a tall leggy shrub. It is a bit spotty (I don't spray)....

Article (newsletter)  (Nov 2014)  Page(s) 3.  Includes photo(s).
 
‘Hadley’, named for a town in Massachusetts. A hybrid tea developed by Alexander Montgomery, this deep velvet red bloom with an incredibly strong old rose perfume is still sold by six rose nurseries worldwide. A small bush with slate-green leaves and a scattering of silver-white prickles, it blooms almost continuously

Article (misc)  (29 Oct 2003)  
 
"Bishop’s Lodge Muriel Linton” – named for the Lintons’ youngest daughter, born in Hay in 1886. A Tea Rose with dark red, beautifully perfumed blooms. Recurrent.

Magazine  (2003)  Page(s) 28. Vol 25, No. 1.  
 
Coleen Houston. Bishop's Lodge. The 2nd Bishop Ernest Anderson was the rosarian, “so we feel the surviving roses were planted during his time at the Lodge 1895-1925

Book  (Aug 2002)  Page(s) 46.  
 
Hadley
Not rated

Book  (2001)  Page(s) 48.  
 
Hadley Hybrid Tea, medium red, 1914. Not rated.

Book  (Apr 1999)  Page(s) 407-408.  
 
Hadley ("Montgomery's Mistake") Hybrid Tea. Montgomery/Pierson 1914. Parentage: ('Liberty' x 'Richmond') x 'General MacArthur'. The author cites information from different sources... Deep velvety crimson... 'Montgomery's Mistake' was the nickname tacked onto 'Hadley' by those who thought they new more about roses than the originator of 'Hadley'... Alexander W. Montgomery, Jr., of Hadley, Mass.

Book  (1999)  Page(s) 53.  
 
Mrs. D. Gratton, SA: Hadley HT. A red rose with a lovely scent. It does go a bit blue as it ages but the bud is a beautiful shape and colour.