Gardeners Chronicle, March 30, 1895
ORIGIN OF TEA R0SE DEVONIENSIS—For the information of "Wild Rose" anent the origin of the Tea Rose Devoniensis, it may be stated that this variety was raised in 1838, and sent out about the year 1840 (as well as I can recollect) by Messrs. Lucombe & Pince of Exeter, who purchased the stock from the raiser of the variety, a Mr. Foster of Stoke, Devonport, a retired official of the Plymouth Gas Company, after it had been refused at the price of £20 by Mr. Wm. Kendle, senior, of Plymouth. The parent of the Devoniensis was Smith's Yellow Noisette. H. M.