'Balmarine' rose References
Book (1932) Page(s) 58. E. M. Grassick, The Charm of ‘Glenara’ and its Roses. Here again is a bush seedling, red flowered, fairly open blooms, a medium number of petals. It is not good enough; we are not even told its parentage, only the name, Balmarine, under which it was mentally tabulated and the further illuminating remark that Balmarine was the name of a horse which should have won the Melbourne Cup, but did not.
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