(1971)  Page(s) plate opp. 48.  Includes photo(s).
 
[caption to photo] A modern rose in the old floral style, Colonial White (Climber). Raiser: Melvin E. Wyant, Mentor, Ohio, U.S.A. Introduced 1959. Parentage: New Dawn x Madame Hardy (Damask). Medium-sized (3-3½ in.), very full blooms in pure white with creamy centre, opening flat, soliary and in small clusters of 2-3 on short stems. Very sweet Damask fragrance. Small, very deep bluish foliage. Free, repeated floom into late autumn. Slender, moderately vigorous growth from 8-10 ft. Photograph: J.L. Norton, A.R.P.S.

(1971)  Page(s) 123.  
 
…. While ‘Danse du Feu’ and…. have on all occasions exceeded 150 flowering days in a season….. ‘Danse du Feu’ and ‘Gruss an Teplitz’ are mongrels which cannot be placed in any botanical class; they both produce smallish red flowers in clusters of two or three; the latter’s are crimson and the former’s almost scarlet.

(1971)  Page(s) 118.  
 
As with the earliest floribundas, development of the "Hybrid Musks" was hampered by sterility. Only two of the typical hybrids are recorded as playing a part in further breeding, 'Daphne' (1912) whose parentage has not been published, and 'Danae'....

(1971)  Page(s) 114.  
 
One or two other roses sometimes listed as ramblers may be mentioned here. The first is Elmshorn, whose pink flowers are somewhat reminiscent of 'Dorothy Perkins', whence for a short time it was known as Perpetual Dorothy. It came from a cross between the so-called Hybrid Musk 'Hamburg' (which actually had no claim even to that wholly inaccurate class name), crossed with a polyantha 'Verdun'. It is a vigorous, remontant shrub, which can be persuaded to climb, with patience, but has no real resemblance to the typical rambler roses.

(1971)  Page(s) 114.  
 
....'Elmshorn....came from a cross between the so-called Hybrid Musk Hamburg (which actually had no claim even to that wholly inaccurate class name)...

(1971)  Page(s) 79.  
 
There is another striped Bourbon still in commerce named Honorine de Brabant with lilac-pink blooms striped and mottled deep crimson which changes to violet. It forms a big shrub to six feet, flowers freely in the first flush and then sparingly for the remainder of the season; its provenance and date of occurrence are unknown, although it is obviously a sport.

(1971)  Page(s) 88.  
 
 …an extraordinary tradition has grown up, and still persists, that La France was raised from a cross between the HP Mme. Victor Verdier … and the Tea Rose, Mme. Bravy.   Who invented this wholly mythical parentage I have been unable to discover;    it is enough to say that the account I have given of the origin of La France was that given by Guillot himself in the Journal des Roses for March 1879.  

(1971)  Page(s) 82.  
 
Laffay sent out several good roses of this type from 1837 onwards, but his first great success came with the Rose de la Reine, which appeared in 1842 or 1843.  'Baronne Prevost' was sent out by Desprez at about the same time.  Both these roses were lilac-pink in colour, but in 1845 Nerard produced a crimson variety, 'Geant des Batailles'.  The parentage of these roses is not known, but each of them produced a line of self-seedlings (or  supposed self-seedlings). According to Ellwanger (1882), the first two lines were all fully perpetual, with plenty of autumn bloom, though the third were less free in this respect.  These three important varieties have been preserved in cultivation......'Rose de la Reine' (now commonly shortened to 'La Reine)....

(1971)  Page(s) 89.  
 
A few years ago, an attempt was made to convince the rose world that 'Lady Mary was the greatest H.T. of all time, on no better grounds than that its name appears at the head of the pedigrees of such a large number of present day H.T.'s which could be used for breeding at all.  As a matter of fact, 'Lady Mary Fitzwilliam' only sired ('sired' is correct;  it was the pollen parent in each case) four highly influential roses, 'Mme. Caroline Testout', 'Kaiserin Augusta Viktoria', 'Antoine Rivoire' and 'Mrs. W. J. Grant'.   The fact that these four have something in the order of 3,000 descendants at the present day means nothing.

(1971)  Page(s) 126-127.  
 
....none of them can compete in garden value with the mysterious hybrid Nevada, which covers itself with large, flat, white semi-double flowers, sometimes flushes with pink, at its first flowering and then goes on to repeat as reliably as any rose in the garden....I call it mysterious on account of its parentage. the raiser, Pedro Dot, sent it out in 1927 and said in all good faith that he had obtained it from a seed of the Hybrid Tea La Giralda pollinated by R. moyesii. But by all the rules, such a cross ought to produce a once-flowering rose and a pentaploid, whereas Nevada is determinedly perpetual and a tetraploid....It has been suggested that instead of the normal R. moyesii, Dot may have used its tetraploid variety, R. moyesii fargesii; but while this would account for its tetraploid character, it still cannot account for its remontance.