Website/Catalog  (1861)  Page(s) 63.  
 
Rosa semperflorens (bengalensis indica).
47. Acinq couleurs.

Magazine  (Jun 1853)  Page(s) 567.  
 
Fortune's Five Colored Rose
"One of the humbugs." We have been watching a plant of it with much solicitude, to see five distinct, beautiful colors, in one Rose. It has bloomed- a single white five leafed Rose. That should have been the name of it, five leafed rose, for it has but one color, and not much of that. Florists that have sent it abroad, surely could not have seen its bloom. It is almost as great a take in as the Frenchman's blue rose, of which some of our readers have a feeling recollection.

Magazine  (Jun 1853)  Page(s) 567.  
 
Fortune's Five Colored Rose "One of the humbugs." We have been watching a plant of it with much solicitude, to see five distinct, beautiful colors, in one Rose. It has bloomed - a single white five leafed Rose. That should have been the name of it, five leafed rose, for it has but one color, and not much of that. Florists that have sent it abroad, surely could not have seen its bloom. It is almost as great a take in as the Frenchman's blue rose, of which some of our readers have a feeling recollection.

Website/Catalog  (1853)  Page(s) 16.  
 
Tea Roses...Five-Colored, Fortune's, large, White, striped with cream-color, shaded with Carmine, flowers sometimes entirely red, $ 1.

Book  (1853)  Page(s) 12.  
 
Evergreen Rose. Fortune's Five-Coloured; flowers creamy white, striped with carmine.

Book  (1 Apr 1852)  Page(s) 168.  
 
"Further Notes on Country Seats Near Boston." By Horticola.
...among the rest Mr. P[age, of Rose Hill] showed us Fortune's five-colored rose, which, from the specimen there presented in full flower, we are very much inclined to pronounce a complete humbug. The bud in embryo is just like a monstrosity very common in the rose family, and when fully expanded, is little else than a cluster of half-developed leaves struggling for light. This is like many other much talked of floricultural and horticultural importations, which come across the channel with high sounding names, and nothing else.

Magazine  (Sep 1851)  Page(s) 218.  
 
Fortune's New Yellow Rose has not bloomed with us yet. We have plants of it however, and we think it must be very like the Banksias. His Five colored rose has bloomed well with us this season and proves an acquisition. It is distinctly stripid [sic] like a carnation.

Magazine  (Sep 1851)  Page(s) 218.  
 
Fortune's New Yellow Rose has not bloomed with us yet. We have plants of it however, and we think it must be very like the Banksias. His Five colored rose has bloomed well with us this season and proves an acquisition. It is distinctly stripid [sic] like a carnation.

Book  (1 Jun 1851)  Page(s) 287.  
 
Fortune's Five Colored Rose. -- Messrs. Parsons & Co., of Flushing, have successfully introduced this rose. A small plant, which they had the kindness to send us lately, has produced some fine flowers, pure white, striped with red, and we trust, when older, will show its full character. Mr. Fortune, it will be remembered, brought this plant out to England from China, and his account of it-- given in his travels, is the following: "Another rose, which the Chinese call five-colored, was found in the gardens; it belongs to the section commonly called China Roses in this country-- but sports in a very strange and beautiful manner. Sometimes it produces self-colored blooms, being either wholly red, or French white, and frequently having flowers of both colors on one plant at the same time, while at other times the flowers are striped with the colors above mentioned. This will be as hardy as our common China rose."

On enquiring of Mr. Cadness, (at Messrs. Parson's establishment) respecting the behavior of this new variety in this country, we received the following note from him. Ed.
Fortune's Five Colored Rose is undoubtedly a great novelty amongst roses, but like all flowers of its character, requires nice cultivation in order to get the flowers true. We have not, as yet, we consider, paid that attention to its culture which it undoubtedly requires, having given it the same treatment as our other China and Tea [here the bottom line of the page is cut off and indeterminable] vigorous growth for a supply of wood, for cuttings, &c. Yet, under this treatment, we have had flowers beautifully marked and very perfect, being flaked and striped exactly like a carnation. The colors are very bright, and the marking very distinct and clear, and I have no doubt, that in proper soil, and under proper treatment, the character of the flowers will be permanent. It flowers more perfectly in winter and spring, but as soon as the weather becomes hot they loose [sic] their color, and often become nearly single. Another season we hope to give it a fair trial, and test its merits, and as it appears to seed very freely, I think it cannot but become valuable for hybridising, &c. Yours, C., Flushing, N.Y., May, 1851.

Website/Catalog  (1851)  Page(s) 73.  
 
Rosiers thés, ou Rosiers de l'Inde.
(Rosa indica fragrans.)
Rose à cinq couleurs (Chine). Fleur plein, blanc crème panaché et nuancé de carmin; donne quelquefois des fleurs entièrement rouges (Flore)...1 25 fr.