Magazine  (May 1981)  Page(s) 8. Vol 3, No. 2.  
 
Some recent Imports from the Rosarium Sangerhausen - Teas.
In January this year a small parcel of Old Rose budwood left the deep freeze of mid-Winter in central Europe and came by air-mail to Australia.  Among the rather scrappy, unpromising and half dead stems which eventually cleared the customs shed were the buds of seven Teas which it is hoped will eventually be re-released in Australia.  Thanks to the skill with which the Rosarium staff selected the budwood from the semi-frozen plants, and the skill with which the shrivelled buds were grafted, the plants seem to be well on the way to becoming established in Australia.
The seven NEW varieties are: 
Niphetos, Dr. Grill, Mrs. Foley Hobbs, Noella Nabonnand, Mme. Charles, Mme. de Tartas and Francis Dubreuil. 

Book  (1978)  Page(s) 63.  
 
Madame de Tartas on the other hand is actually coarse in its growth and blowsy pink blooms, to a degree most unexpected in the supposedly refined Teas.  It came from Bernede in 1859. 

Book  (1977)  Page(s) 44.  
 
Jack Harkness.  The Roses in Our Lives.
.....Mme. Caroline Testout.  The seed parent was 'Mme. de Tartas' a rose described as a tea, but when we grew it more like a vigorous hybrid perpetual. 

Website/Catalog  (1967)  Page(s) 54.  
 
Tea Mme. de Tartas, blush, 2½ ft,    15/-

Book  (1966)  Page(s) 91.  
 
Madame Lambard, a Tea Rose which Gertude Jekyll praised very highly in Wood and Garden, has full, salmon-rose blooms with a hint of buff at the base of the petals, and thinner leaves than those of Marie van Houtte, though both have one parent in comon, the rosy Madame de Tartas. 

Book  (1965)  Page(s) 277.  
 
At the same time as Henri Guillot was raising the hybrid polyantha roses Pacquerette and Mignonette, Pernet-Ducher was crossing R. multiflora to the pink tea rose Madame de Tartas, and from this he obtained the hybrid polyantha Cecile Brunner. 

Book  (1958)  Page(s) 244.  
 
Mme de Tartas T. (Bernede, 1859). Large, full, cupped, blush-pink.  Vig, sprawling.  Important ancestor of many Hybrid Teas, (14)

Book  (1956)  Page(s) 11.  
 
Gordon Rowley.   Roses at Bayfordbury.  (The National Rose Species Collection). 
....When the Agricultural Research Council decided in 1946 to establish species Collections as permanent reserves of plant-breeding material, the new home of the John Innes Institution was chosen for the genus Rosa and by April 1951 the Rose species Collection was complete in broad outline.....Picture the delight at receiving a plant of 'Madame de Tartas' that famous old Tea Rose of 1859, parent of 'Caroline Testout', and source of so many favourite early Hybrid Teas!   This was smuggled through the Iron Curtain by a well-known rosarian who spotted perhaps the only surviving source in the rose collection at Sangerhausen. 

Book  (1940)  Page(s) 52.  
 
George M. Taylor.  A Garden of Remembrance. 
....But where, today, is Madam de Tartas?  I have hunted the roseries of the world for that historic old Tea Rose and I cannot find it.  'Let the past perish," wrote Lytton, "if it canot afford us a guide for the Present and the Future."   But in that old Tea Rose - verily a microcosm in the world of roses - we have a something that is a guide for both, and what a pity it is that it is lost and sleeping for ever over the crumbling temples of its sons - not forgotten but ever to be remembered.  It is, then amongst others, for a rose like 'Madam de Tartas that I advocate a Garden of Remembrance.  

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 694.  
 
de Tartas, Mme. (tea) Bernède 1859; cream-white, shaded flesh, vivid center, medium to large, 3/4-full, solitary or up to 5, fragrance 6/10, floriferous, continuous bloom, growth 6/10, bushy. Sangerhausen