Area 4F – Notes

‘Ballet Queen’ (4F-002) is beginning to produce flowers with white viral blotching; it will eventually need to relabelled as ‘Ballet Queen Variegated’.

‘Jean Lyne’ (4F-012) was labelled ‘Edith Linton’, which is the solid pink form of the bicolored ‘Jean Lyne’. This bush has every permutation of white through to pink, so much nearer to ‘Jean Lyne’.

‘Fair Jury’ (4F-015) is a sport from ‘Elsie Jury’ and is clearly not at all stable. It should be white with pink flecks.

‘Lady St Clair’ is very prone to ball, meaning the flowers only partially open.

‘Mystique’ is in the register as a japonica variety whereas this is definitely a reticulata. It may be that the name was ruled invalid and a new one given or it may never have been registered.

‘White Giant’ is an American variety.

(4F-003) was labelled ‘Beverley Caffin’, which is described by the Register as being a semi-double white with pink flecking, so this is something else.

(4F-026) was labelled ‘Mars’ which is an English variety which from pictures looks very different from this.

(4F-029) was labelled ‘Mattie Cole’, correct plants of which are at (4F-048) and (8-020) I have written at greater length about this variety here.