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George Dawson was Australia’s most prolific breeder of modern hybrid tea roses. After retiring from his market garden at Ferntree Gully, he moved to Bunyip where he concentrated on his rose breeding program, his main objectives being good colour and perfume. At his peak, he is said to have sowed some 20,000 seeds in a season, which should certainly have provided several thousand seedlings. Of these hopefuls, those few which he considered the best would eventually be released, although his garden contained many more seedlings that were quite beautiful but never shown.

Although a comparatively recent hybridist, Frank Riethmuller of Sydney, bred a number of fine roses which are very much in the style of some forty years earlier. Whilst perhaps best know for the ever popular Titian, his series of polyanthas bred in the late 1950’s are his most distinctive contribution to Australian rose-breeding. When used together, these make an excellent, informal and multi-coloured hedge of approximately one metre in height. He was rewarded with the T.A. Steward Memorial Award in 1959.

Alister Clark is a man whose name you may recognize less than his floral creations. This is a sad testament to the passage of time, as in his lifetime he was known and loved by many. Rose breeder Sam McGredy has said that Alister Clark was a rose breeder ahead of his time.

Alister Clark's influence as a rosarian is inestimable

Mrs Fitzhardinge of New South Wales:

Some fine climbers and early hybrid tea bushes were bred by Mrs Fitzhardinge during the 1920’s and 1930’s. Unfortunately only a couple appear to have survived.

Lubra: 1938 Hybrid Tea. ( OpheliaCl x Blackboy seedling.) Deep crimson blooms of fully-double high-pointed style. Fragrant. A free-flowering, moderately-sized bush.

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