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|Prudence<ref>[http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.61315 Prudence at HelpMeFind.com]</ref>||1938||Hybrid tea climber||Neyron pink||Warrawee||Souvenir de Claudius Pernet||Lost
|Prudence<ref>[http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.61315 Prudence at HelpMeFind.com]</ref>||1938||Hybrid tea climber||Neyron pink||Warrawee||Souvenir de Claudius Pernet||Lost
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|Governor Phillip<ref>[http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.61315 Governor Phillip at HelpMeFind.com]</ref>||1938||Hybrid tea climber||Neyron pink||Warrawee||Souvenir de Claudius Pernet||Lost
|Governor Phillip<ref>[http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.32004 Governor Phillip at HelpMeFind.com]</ref>||1939||Hybrid tea climber||Ruby red||Ophelia ssedling||Black Boy||Lost
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|Titian<ref>[http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.24246 Titian at helpmefind.com]</ref>||1955||Floribunda||Deep pink||Unknown||Unknown||Yes
|Lady Edgeworth David<ref>[http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.30038 Lady Edgeworth David at HelpMeFind.com]</ref>||1939||Hybrid tea||Pink||Seedling||Betty Uprichard||Yes
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|Sirius<ref>[http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.22125 Sirius at HelpMeFind.com]</ref>||1939||Hybrid tea||Red||Seedling||Lubra||Lost
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Olive Fitzhardinge (1884–1965) was an Australian rose breeder.

The appearance of a gentleman. Studio photo of Frank Riethmuller in Townsville about 1910, when he was 26.

Biography

Olive Rose MacMaster was born in 1881 at Inverell, NSW in the Warialda district. She was brought up in the country.

In 1909 she married in Woollahra Dr Hardinge Clarence Fitzhardinge (1878–1958) ,a Macquarie Street dentist. "They lived at Cremorne Point for some years but in 1917 bought 1.5 acres at Warrawee north of Sydney where they established quite a famous garden."[1]

They had "Bridge End," 1.5 acres at No. 1 Warrawee Avenue, Warrawee till 1937,[2] then moved to Mandurama on the NSW central tablelands. (The "bridge end" concerned is the eastern end of the footbridge to the Warrawee railway station.)[3] Mrs Fitzhardinge's last roses were registered in 1939 but she probably bred them before 1937.

They had daughters Jean Mary Dean (b. 1909) and Olive Prudence Bryant (b. 1912) and sons Colin Hardinge Fitzhardinge (1914–1998, a farmer who married Joan Phipson, the children's writer, in 1944) and Brian Forbes Fitzhardinge (1917–1932).

HC Fitzhardinge was descended from the Fitzhardinge who surveyed the western region of NSW for the colonial government. This western region is the one to which Olive and Hardinge retired in 1937, and the same area in which their elder son, Colin, settled at the end of World War II. He and his wife remained there till she died in 1956 and he in 1958.

Rose breeding

All Fitzhardinge's roses were hybrid teas. All were bred between 1932 and 1937, the last to be registered appearing in 1939, by which time she had moved to the NSW Central Tableland.

"She was a close friend of Alister Clark and the Hazelwood brothers, who introduced her roses to the public through their nursery."[4]

— 1939 — F,G,L,N,O,P,VLady Edgeworth David F,L,O,VSirius


Sortable list of Fitzhardinge roses[5][6]

Name Date Type Colour Pollen parent Seed parent Extant
Beatrice Berkeley[7] 1932 Hybrid tea red blend Cupid Padre Lost
Kitty Bice[8] 1932 Hybrid tea climber Dark bright pink Ophelia climbing Lady Waterlow Lost
Warrawee[9] 1932 Hybrid tea Pink Rev. F. Page-Roberts Padre Yes
Captain Bligh[10] 1934 Hybrid tea Pink Gustav Grünewald Betty Uprichard Lost
Lady Gowrie[11] 1938 Hybrid tea climber Yellow Sunburst climbing Rev. F. Page-Roberts Lost
Lubra[12] 1938 Hybrid tea Dark red Ophelia Black Boy (Clark) Yes
Mrs C.E. Prell[13] 1938 Hybrid tea Red blend Gustav Grünewald Betty Uprichard Yes
Plain Jane[14] 1938 Hybrid tea unknown unknown unknown Lost
Prudence[15] 1938 Hybrid tea climber Neyron pink Warrawee Souvenir de Claudius Pernet Lost
Governor Phillip[16] 1939 Hybrid tea climber Ruby red Ophelia ssedling Black Boy Lost
Lady Edgeworth David[17] 1939 Hybrid tea Pink Seedling Betty Uprichard Yes
Sirius[18] 1939 Hybrid tea Red Seedling Lubra Lost

Where Fitzhardinge roses can be seen

  • The Victoria State Rose Garden at Werribee Park has 'Warrawee'.[19]
  • The National Rose Collection created by David Ruston at Renmark in South Australia has 'Carabella,' 'Spring Song' (sometimes sold as 'Bert Mulley'), 'Lady Woodward,' 'Titian,' 'Snow Spray' and 'Chip's Apple Blossom.'[20]

Few Fitzhardinge roses can be found in collections made outside Australia. 'Titian' and 'Snow Spray' are in the Europas-Rosarium at Sangerhausen in north Germany. 'Titian' is in the Rosarium Budatétény at Budapest. 'Titian' and 'Gay Vista' are in the catalogue of the Californian nursery Vintage Gardens.

References

  1. ^ Peter Cox, Australian Roses, Bloomings Books, 2009, p. 25.
  2. ^ Sydney phone directories 1932–1939.
  3. ^ The present house at "Bridge End" was built about 1939, so was not built by the Fithardinges.
  4. ^ Peter Cox, p. 25.
  5. ^ Peter Cox, Australian Roses, Bloomings Books, 1999, pp. 25–26. ISBN 1-876473-02-9.
  6. ^ Help Me Find Roses entry for Fitzhardinge, Olive
  7. ^ Beatrice Berkeley at HelpMeFind.com
  8. ^ Kitty Bice at HelpMeFind.com
  9. ^ Warrawee at HelpMeFind.com
  10. ^ Captain Bligh at HelpMeFind.com
  11. ^ Lady Gowrie at HelpMeFind.com
  12. ^ Lubra at HelpMeFind.com
  13. ^ Mrs C.E. Prell at HelpMeFind.com
  14. ^ Plain Jane at HelpMeFind.com
  15. ^ Prudence at HelpMeFind.com
  16. ^ Governor Phillip at HelpMeFind.com
  17. ^ Lady Edgeworth David at HelpMeFind.com
  18. ^ Sirius at HelpMeFind.com
  19. ^ Victoria State Rose Garden at Werribee Park
  20. ^ National Rose Collection of Australia

Articles written by Riethmuller

FL Riethmuller (Turramurra, NSW), "Co-operative Rose Breeding," Australian and New Zealand Rose Annual (ANZRA), 1955, p112.

F Riethmuller (Sydney NSW), "Nora Cunningham," ANZRA, 1957, p135. A puff for the European release of the Alister Clark climber, 'Nora Cunningham.'

Frank Riethmuller (Turramurra, NSW), "Roses from Seed," ANZRA, 1960, p118. Shows how FLR actually thought as a breeder.

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