here’s a link: Classic Roses Crazy for You
Srange that Peter Beales should say ‘no scent’ when it actually has a very nice one!
Archive for June 2012
more Roses in June – ‘Crazy for You’
June 21, 2012more Roses in June — Rambling Rector…
June 16, 2012
…preparing for takeoff!
more Roses in June – Boule de Neige and Munstead Woods
June 13, 2012
more Roses in June – Munstead Woods again
June 13, 2012
more Roses in June – Love Matters
June 13, 2012
more Roses in June – Boule de Neige
June 13, 2012
Hastings humour
June 9, 2012
There’s an extremely silly bus shelter at Warrior Square, St Leonards — Lottie gamely volunteering for the ‘does my bum look big in this?’ treatment!
‘Munstead Wood’
June 8, 2012
David Austin Rose — looked unpromising in the bud but has now blossomed spectacularly! Very large dark red flowers, splendid fragrance. Another David Austin triumph.
‘The foreign gentleman executes an air upon the Grand Piano’
June 4, 2012
This is a scan of a rather faded print that hangs above my piano – found on a stall at Cambridge Market for 10p (‘Nice picture; two bob?’) among a pile of Victorian generals, circa 1971. Having just written an essay on Liszt (for Philip Radcliffe), I knew at once who it was.
The mount is labelled ‘London, Richard Bentley, 1843’. The print was included in ‘Bentley’s Miscellany’ of 1848, but I suspect it was a Punch cartoon first.
The scrawly signature is not, as I first thought, ‘F Liszt’, but ‘J Leech’ – John Leech, prolific and well-known Punch cartoonist.
So… was Liszt in London in 1843? Any thoughts on whose salon this might be (if not entirely fictional)?
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