Article (newsletter)  (Nov 2014)  Page(s) 8-9.  Includes photo(s).
 
‘Miss Edith Cavell’ (also ‘Edith Cavell’ and ‘Nurse Cavell’) is the sole rose of 1917 most available. A dark red polyantha introduced in the Netherlands, it commemorates Edith Cavell, a young Englishwoman whose nursing school in Brussels became a Red Cross hospital. When Germany invaded Belgium, Edith refused to return home. As a principled nurse, she treated all soldiers, irrespective of nationality. No doubt at this time she was aware, if not also recipient, of Hoover’s aid to the hungry. At some point she began underground resistance work, enabling Belgian, British, and French soldiers to escape into neutral Holland. In August 1915, she was arrested and imprisoned by the Germans for ten weeks. On October 12, 1915, she faced the firing squad.

Book  (2007)  Page(s) 399.  
 
Miss Edith Cavell (Meiderwyk / Spek. 1917). Pol Spt. 'Orleans-Rose' (Pol), Red.

Book  (2001)  Page(s) 179.  
 
Miss Edith Cavell (Meiderwyk / Spek, 1917. Sport of 'Orleans-Rose' (Pol)......
Not to be confused with the single white HT 'Edith Cavell' of 1918, nor with the red Polyantha 'Miss Edith Cavell' from De Ruiter in 1932.

Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 248.  
 
Miss Edith Cavell Polyantha. Meiderwyk/Spek, 1917. Sport of 'Orléans Rose' [Author cites information from different sources.]

Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 248.  
 
Miss Edith Cavell Meiderwyk / Spek, 1917. Sport of 'Orleans Rose' (Pol). ....
There is also another Polyantha 'Miss Edith Cavell' of the same color, attributed to De Ruiter, 1932.

Website/Catalog  (1975)  Page(s) 28.  
 
EDITH CAWELL (Speck 1917). Ecarlate foncé teinté noir.

[no longer listed in 1975]

Magazine  (1965)  Page(s) 218.  
 
'EDITH CAVELL' Rose. Most visitors to Trafalgar Square in London are familiar with the nearby Cavell Memorial ... It was a dwarf polyantha raised by Meiderwyk and introduced in 1917 by Jan Spek of Boskop in the Netherlands.

Article (magazine)  (Dec 1951)  Page(s) 20.  
 
1916-1919 was the peak in production and use of small-flowered, low to medium height, cluster-blooming varieties like Etoile Luisante, Eugéne Jacquet and Edith Cavell, classed as polyanthas.

Magazine  (Jun 1948)  Page(s) 2. trimester, p. 13-14, 21.  
 
[From "Classification et Création des Roses Polyantha", by Dr. Walter E. Lammerts, translated from the ARS Annual 1947]
p. 13: Une série vraiment remarquable de sports a été produite par Orléans Rose, et certaines de ces roses ont, à leur tour, donné des sports. La liste de ces sports, établie par ordre chronologique, est la suivante :
ORLEANS ROSE (1909), rose vif, cramoisi, centre blanc.
1° Miss Edith CaveII (1917)
- rouge écarlate ombré de rouge cramoisi velouté,
- de haute valeur pour l'hybridation.

...Le cramoisi foncé velouté d'Idéal est également un caractère récessif de Miss Edith Cavell. La constatation que Miss Edith Cavell ne bleuit pas est très intéressante, car cela semblerait indiquer la réapparition du même caractère qui a été trouvé flans de nombreuses variétés du R. Chinensis et l'hérédité récessive de cette particularité de grande valeur.

p. 22: Miss Edith Cavell, Sport d'Oléans Rose; Double écarlale cramoisi, ne bleuit pas, feuillage brillant, corymbes.

Book  (1947)  Page(s) 195.  
 
Miss Edith Cavell (polyantha pompon) produces clusters of double, bright crimson flowers on vigorous erect plants with glossy bright green foliage. Meiderwyk 1917. Deciduous. Vigorous growth. Slightly fragrant. ...June-September. Hardy