Website/Catalog  (23 Oct 1998)  Page(s) 31.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (14 Feb 1997)  Page(s) 162.  
 
Alchymist [listed among the best of the most widely available roses] Description...

Book  (1997)  Page(s) 72.  
 
Alchymist... Train a clematis or honeysuckle over the rose canes to extend bloom season and to hide any defoliation from blackspot, to which this rose is somewhat susceptible...

Book  (1997)  Page(s) 105-106.  Includes photo(s).
 
... You can also train goldflame honeysuckle up the left side of the rose arch to meet 'Alchymist' halfway. Goldflame honeysuckle will effectively carry the bloom on your rose arch through the summer with a tangle of delightful, fragrant, tubular, carmine-gold flowers that change to pink...

Book  (Oct 1996)  Page(s) 9.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (Oct 1996)  Page(s) 27.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (Nov 1994)  Page(s) 252.  
 
Alchymist Modern Floribunda Climber. Kordes, Germany, 1956... Parentage: 'Golden Glow' x Rosa rubiginosa [aka R. eglanteria] hybrid... Though not recurrent, this is well worth a place in the garden...

Book  (1994)  Page(s) 175.  
 
[Wilhelm] Kordes was especially impressed with 'Golden Glow', a yellow climber the Brownells introduced in 1937... Kordes praised its abundant golden flowers and its hardiness, even going so far as to say, "I think 'Golden Glow" is the Climber we have been expecting for long, long years." Like the Brownells, Kordes strove for cold-hardy roses. To create 'Goldbusch' he crossed 'Golden Glow' with a hybrid of the hardy species rose, R. eglanteria... Later, another cross between 'Golden Glow' and an R. eglanteria hybrid produced for Kordes a shrub rose that can easily be used as a climber, 'Alchymist', which is similar to 'Goldbusch' but has double flowers in shades of yellow and orange. 'Alchymist' was introduced in 1956...

Book  (1994)  Page(s) 111.  
 
Alchemist (Shrub Rose) 1958. A vigorous very double fragrant yellow with shades of orange...

Book  (1994)  Page(s) 163.  
 
Alchymist Climber. Kordes 1956. Fully double flowers that are perhaps best described as a confection of yellow, orange, pink and red, the relative dominance of the different shades tending to change with the weather...