Website/Catalog  (24 Oct 2014)  
 
Registered Name: 'Martha Washington'
ARS Approved Exhibition Name: Martha Washington
S, mp, before 1900. hybrid roxburghii

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 362.  
 
'Martha Washington'. A plant has been grown under this name for many years in the flower garden at Mount Vernon. It is first evidenced in documents dated 1889. This plant can be identified botanical with Rosa roxburghii Trattinnick. Propagations of this plant were sold as souvenirs at Mount Vernon between 1890 and 1900 and again from 1932 to 1935. Commercial nurseries offered plants of many varieties and types between 1890-1900. Among them were: a vigorous climber with flowers and foliage identical with 'Old Blush', a climber with very pale pink flowers of Noisette type and a trailer.