Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 48.  
 
City of Leeds A healthy, semi-single salmon pink. Medium. McGredy 1968

Book  (1972)  
 
p22 E. F. Allen. Trends in Roses. ...In the same year [1964] 'City of Leeds' also won a Gold Medal.

p61 The Final Analysis 1970-71 Season.
'City of Leeds' N.R.S. rating 8.3, 4-5ft. If only the HTs. gave as much value for the money! Excellent for garden display and exhibiting. Trouble free and always in bloom. Highly recommended.

Book  (1971)  Includes photo(s).
 
p88. The naming of roses.....One cannot help wondering if ....and 'City of Leeds' appear as romantic to a Spaniard.

p88 Gillian Kenny b/w Illustration. 'City of Leeds'.

p92 One of the best flower-shows in the North of England is in the City of Leeds - hence their rose.

p143 The following year <[1964] brought my 'City of Leeds' which is established as probably the best deep salmon-pink; it won a gold medal and is a very outstanding rose in England.

p158 'City of Leeds' 'Evelyn Fison x ['Spartan' x 'Red Favourite'). Even-salmon floribunda. Gold Medal, RNRS.

Book  (1971)  Page(s) 135.  
 
National Rose Society of New Zealand. Review of Newer Roses 1970-71
'City of Leeds'. 33 reports. Four years. Average height 54 inches. Rating 8.3. Waipawa: Consider this second only to 'Iceberg' on performance. West Coast: a grand floribunda, thornless stems for cutting. A very fine rose. Tolaga Bay: Indispensable. Makes a good display, always in bloom.

Book  (1969)  
 
p28.  Roy and Heather Rumsey, NSW.  New Roses. 
City of Leeds Floribunda. (McGredy) The pale orange flowers are produced in clusters. The plants grow very quickly and consequently are hardly ever without flower. ('Spartan' x 'Red Favourite').

p164. Mr. W. G. Treloar of Portland, Victoria.  The New Ones.  
City of Leeds  a Hybrid Tea type Floribunda, has healthy tall upright growth with blooms in a pale vermilion shade similar to 'John Church'. 

Book  (1969)  Page(s) 119.  
 
National Rose Society Review of Newer Roses.
'City of Leeds'. 9 reports. Two years. Average height: 54 inches. N.R.S. rating 8.4. Gisborne: Different colour - repeats quickly - highly recommended. South Hawke's Bay and Bush: Delightful - a must. Motueka: Free flowering, healthy, vigorous.

Book  (1968)  Page(s) 185.  
 
Langbecker Roses Pty. Ltd., Queensland. (advertisement) 
City of Leeds

Book  (1966)  
 
p8. E. F. Allen. Awards to New Rose Seedlings in Great Britain in 1965. Two other Gold Medals were awarded, both to three-year-old seedlings: 'City of Leeds'. ('Evelyn Fison' x ['Spartan' x 'Red Favorite']). This floribunda of Sam McGredy's is a very free flowering, very vigorous and tall growing rose with large clusters of salmon vermilion, scented flowers. it is a most attractive variety which I marked very highly, but it will require spray protection wherever rust occurs.

p34. E. B. Le Grice. Review of the Floribundas of 1965.
The only floribunda variety to receive a Gold Medal was 'City of Leeds'. This had even growth three feet and up, and the large semi-double rather loose pleasing flowers were carried on well spaced trusses. The growth was good and the flowers were free and continuous. My notes showed this had some blackspot and rust at times and the flowers faded in sunshine. Some perfume. The colour was soft orange salmon. (Raised by McGredy's).

Book  (1966)  
 
p172. L. G. Turner. The Trial Ground and Display Garden 1965.
Gold Medal. 'City of Leeds' (Flori). 'Evelyn Fison' x ('Spartan' x 'Red Favourite'). Trial Ground No. 473. Reg. No. 994. Raiser: S. McGredy IV. Distributor: S. McGredy & Son Ltd., N. Ireland. A vigorous variety of upright bushy habit approximately 3 feet 6 inches, with plentiful large dark green foliage. Blooms of 19 petals, 3 1/2 inches across when open, borne in well-spaced trusses. Colour an attractive rich salmon. Fragrance slight. Certificate of Merit 1964.

p201 Sam McGredy Roses advertisement. 'City of Leeds'. Floribunda. Raised by Sam McGredy IV. medium. Bright orange-salmon Hybrid Tea shaped blooms set against prolific dark foliage. A fine rose for a fine city!