Book  (1990)  Page(s) 62.  
 
Ted Phillips, Rosanna, Victoria.  Some of the Darker Reds and Others.  
'Crimson Glory',  'Ena Harkness', 'Josephine Bruce - the defects in growth and disease resistance of all three are too well known to need repeating. I still grow the first two because they have always done well for me and give me some lovely blooms.

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 19.  
 
(1946) [Harkness thinks] its exquisite flower formation has never been surpassed, but by the standards of today it is a mediocre plant, and it was always a sufferer from "'Southport' [one of its parents] necks" (see Glossary for a definition)

Website/Catalog  (1983)  Page(s) 32.  Includes photo(s).
 
Ena Harkness : riche coloris rougeécarlate, inaltérable d'une grande floribondité. Extra pour la fleur à couper. Parfumée.

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 3.  
 
Ena Harkness rouge vif.

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 45.  
 
Ena Harkness Still one of the best fragrant reds but has a weak neck. Strongly scented, Medium. Norman 1946.

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 2.  
 
Ena Harkness 1946. Rouge cramoisi brillant du plus bel effet, très florifère.

Website/Catalog  (1979)  Page(s) 12.  Includes photo(s).
 
Ena Harkness

Book  (1978)  Page(s) 96.  
 
Ena Harkness  Medium. Crimson. Remontant. P5. H2. **
In a tiny home greenhouse, Albert Norman put his mind to breeding roses: the first question he would ask was what colour? To which the answer was red. The next, what parents? He took the best dark red variety to seed and the best bright red colour to pollen, which gave him a cross of 'Crimson Glory' x 'Southport'.  Often this is shown in reverse order in the books, but my information was checked carefully with Albert Norman. I never discovered how many seedpods he had of the cross but I suspect from something he said it was only one. It yielded 'Ena Harkness', 'Red Ensign' and 'William Harvey', and thus an amateur gave a classic but deceptive example of how easy rose breeding might appear. 
It's a compliment to my teacher and predecessor, William Ernest Harkness that Norman selected him to distribute his roses.....I am told the approach was a request to try the seedlings and to introduce any of sufficient merit....... I understand they arrived on our nursery in Hitchen in 1943..... When Norman's seedlings flowered in 1944, they were like day-dreams come true.   Out of that batch came 'Ena Harkness' and 'Frensham', destined to run for some years as Britains's best red Hybrid Tea and Floribunda......When asked to nominate his 'Masterpiece' for the Rose Annual 1953 he put it down to 'Frensham'.   He added his thanks to Wilhelm Kordes, without whose 'Crimson Glory' there would have been no 'Frensham', no 'Ena Harkness', nor a great many other roses.  That is a very proper tribute, some breeders give one the idea that they did it all by themselves. 
'Ena Harkness'  was Introduced in 1946,  the year before 'Peace' in Britain, and it had the kind of success one would expect, remembering the circumstances. The nation was starved of peace and beauty, even denied the habitation of its own homes. We waved in its face the most beautiful red roses ever seen, and the result could be foreseen without any need for a strong prophetic gift.
We learned that 'Ena Harkness' had her favourite places in the world. I am told that she liked Portland, Oregon even better than Hitchen, Herts.  In Tasmania, a rose growing nun may have grown the biggest and best 'Ena Harkness' in the world; apparently Tasmania was real Ena Harknessland, other varieties have no chance.....
I have often thought 'Ena Harkness' was almost the last of a certain type of Hybrid Tea.  It inherited so much of the Tea from the late 19th century, and was about to encounter the fresh influx of vigour and may we say loss of refined beauty at the middle of the 20th. 'Ena Harkness' is not quite vigorous enough, and her flower stalks always have been too weak.

Website/Catalog  (1975)  Page(s) 4, 15(photo).  Includes photo(s).
 
ENA HARKNESS  Rouge cramoisi brillant. 60/80 -  recommandée pour fleurs coupées -  parfumée  - Grande floribondité et rusticité. Fleur double de coloris persistant

Website/Catalog  (1971)  Page(s) 8.  Includes photo(s).
 
Ena Harkness