Rev. Seidel wrote an article in the August 2001 Quarterly Rose Letter of the Heritage Roses Group entitled: "Those Fabulous Foundlings: The No-Name Noisettes". In it there is a paragraph about the MT. VPN:

"With so many pale or white Noisettes, pink and rose forms are very desirable. And we are fortunate to have two very good ones. The first, "Mount Vernon Purple Noisette" (Antique Rose Emporium), is the same as "Mrs. Wood's Lavender Pink" (Vintage Gardens). If "Mount Vernon Purple Noisette" was originally discovered on the Washington estate, no one is saying. It has the pointed leaflets and reddish growth of the China on a bush which easily attains five feet here [Emmaus, Pennsylvannia]. The clusters of cupped blooms are rich pink with a shot of carmine in the center and are almost fully double. In certain seasons the petals fade off to a lavender hue. "Mount Vernon Purple" can be sporadic in its rebloom and sometimes there are no late flowers at all in my garden."