This rose is mentioned in "Harlequin House" by Margery Sharp, published in 1939:

Mr. Partridge strolled across the grass and approached one of the star-shaped parterres. From its margin sprouted three notice boards. Two were municipal, bearing the injunctions "Please do not pick," "Please keep off the beds"; on the third, donated by the Dormouth Bay Rose-Growers Association, it said, "A rose any other name would smell as sweet. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene II, l. 43. D.B.R.-G.A." Mr. Partridge read all three, took out his penknife, and stepped between the bushes to cut a button-hole. In the centre of the bed he paused indeed, but it was a memory, not conscience, that suspended his hand on Scarlet Glory. He had just remembered that it was the tenth anniversary of his wife's death Regretfully but firmly Mr. Partridge spared the bud and selected a white Frau Karl Druschki instead.