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'Mrs. C. B. Pitt' rose References
Book  (2007)  Page(s) 461.  
 
Mrs. C. B. Pitt (Bennett, c1891) HT. ‘Alba rosea’ (T) x ‘Lady Mary Fitzwilliam’ (HT). Soft rosy flesh.
Book  (2002)  
 
p85. Charles Bennett.(fl 1880-90s) landscape gardener and nursery proprietor, was apparently the son of well-known English rose-breeder Henry Bennett (1823-1890). He arrived in Sydney c1886 and by 1890 had established the Standard Nursery, Homebush. ....His Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Rose (1891), a modest but early Australian work on roses, elicited praise from ‘Mrs. Rolf Boldrewood’ in The Flower Garden in Australia (1893). RA.

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p642. .....Henry Wicks (1854-1939) ....before migrating to Adelaide. He acquired Charles Pitt’s Felixstow Nursery (1887) and established the Riverside Nurseries in Payneham. ....developed the Balhannah Nurseries (1905) in the Adelaide Hills specialising in roses, fruit and nut trees and vines.
Book  (1941)  Page(s) 95.  
 
Recently Mrs. H. H. Hazlewood has come into possession of a manuscript book compiled by the late Mr. A. K. Moore who was very active in the Rose world about 25 years ago [1916] and from which the following additions to the list [of Australian roses] have been compiled.
1892. Mrs. C. B. Pitt, H.T. (C. Bennett), Alba rosea x Lady Mary Fitzwilliam.
Article (newspaper)  (4 Feb 1910)  Page(s) 110.  
 
Arthur Moore, Hunter’s Hill, N.S.W.  Some Australian roses. 
1893  H.T. Mrs. G. B. Pitt  Bennett NSW

Of the several roses standing against Bennett’s name,  it is to be explained that the plants were originally raised in England by H. Bennett, a prolific hybridiser of his day, and on his death, circa, 1892 [1890], they became the property of his son, C. Bennett, at that time in business at the Standard Nursery, Homebush, N.S.W., and were by him first distributed to the trade – curiously enough, none of them seem to have reached England.  They can, however, all be obtained from the  Manager, Royal Nurseries, Homebush, which I believe is the successor in business of the Standard Nursery
Website/Catalog  (1894)  Page(s) 5.  
 
The following roses* were raised by the late H. Bennett, of Shepparton, England and are in every respect first-rate.

Mrs. C. B. Pitt. H.T. [suitable for exhibition]; g.[garden]; d.[decorative]. Large, full, and well formed; soft rosy flesh; profuse and constant bloomer, erect habit; seedling from Alba rosea x Lady Mary Fitzwilliam.

[*Note – The four roses listed are Cleopatra, Mrs. H. H. Bradley, Mrs. C. B. Pitt, and Mrs. James Wilson. This last rose was bred by A. Dickson, 1889]
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