Website/Catalog  (Oct 1999)  Page(s) 47.  
 
Elegance (Climber) Very large, fully double but shapely flowers of clear yellow, fading attractively to lemon with age. Good, rich green foliage. Vigorous. Will repeat when established. 1937.

Book  (Sep 1993)  Page(s) 160.  Includes photo(s).
 
Elegance Climber. Description... soft canary-yellow color... Raised by Dr and Mrs Walter Brownell of Long Island in 1937 in their quest for roses that would endure their subarctic winters, it is one of the easiest yellow roses to grow. Parentage: 'Glenn Dale' x ('Mary Wallace' x 'Miss Lolita Armour')

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 154.  
 
Elegance Large-flowered Climber, yellow, fading white at edges, 1937, 'Glenn Dale' x ('Mary Wallace' x 'Miss Lolita Armour'); Brownell. Description.

Book  (Feb 1993)  Page(s) 156.  Includes photo(s).
 
Elegance Large-flowered climber. Parentage: 'Glenn Dale' x ('Mary Wallace' x 'Miss Lolita Armour'). USA 1937. Description and cultivation... The individual blooms are medium-sized, primrose yellow, slightly deeper in the centre, very double, and of perfect formation...

Book  (May 1992)  Page(s) 316.  
 
Elegance Brownell (USA) 1937. 'Glenn Dale' x ('Mary Wallace' x 'Miss Lolita Armour')... clear yellow flowers... pale with age to lemon... Sometimes gives a subdued repeat performance in autumn...

Book  (Jun 1986)  Page(s) 90.  Includes photo(s).

Article (website)  (1982)  Page(s) 15.  
 
Elegance (Climber) Very large, fully double but shapely flowers of clear yellow fading attractively to lemon with age.  Good, rich green foliage. Vigorous. Will repeat when established.  1937. (R). 10 x 8’. 

Book  (1978)  Page(s) 141.  
 
'Elegance'  Climber   Primrose  Summer     P2   H3   ** 
Grows fast and far, with a wicked armoury of thorns. If you have some thicket or corner over which you and nature are arguing, with nature getting the better of it, then I suggest you put 'Elegance' there, and give nature a Pyrrhic victory. The flowers are a surprise, perfect in their Hybrid Tea form though slightly smaller, lovely creamy yellow. I never tire of looking at them, and I cannot remember seeing one after the summer flush. This healthy and hardy rose came from Dr and 
Mrs Walter  D. Brownell, of Little Compton, Rhode Island, from  'Glenn Dale'  x (Mary Wallace' x 'Miss Lolita Armour'), a mixture of R. wichuraiana and Hybrid Tea. It was introduced in 1937. The Brownells set out to breed bush roses which 
would  endure harsh winters, and introduced them as Sub-Zero roses; and although they  made quite a reputation thereby, in retrospect their more valuable work may prove to have been with climbers and ramblers. 'Elegance' could yet be valuable for breeding yellow Hybrid Teas.

Book  (1948)  Page(s) 56.  
 
K. P. Jones, Barrington, Rhode Island. Wichuraiana Hybrids.
Another typical instance is the truly magnificent spectrum-yellow climber Elegance, also descended from ‘Glenn Dale’ and ‘Mary Wallace’. No pale yellow hardy climber grown can compare with this rose.

Book  (1945)  Page(s) 80.  
 
Mr. S. J. Bisdee. Tasmanian Rose Notes. 
The climber Elegance is easily the best thing I have in light yellows and its growth is vigorous. I like it much better than Sir Henry Segrave, even if the blooms are a little smaller.