Book  (1981)  Page(s) 52-53.  
 
R. arkansana has never been much cultivated in Britain, but it is an interesting rose owing to its abilaity to flower on strong shoots of the current season, and is by all accounts a pretty one, especiall in its var. suffulta, of which there are forms with white and with deep pink flowers and two names clones with double flowers - 'Woodrow' and 'John Allen.'

Article (misc)  (1973)  
 
Walter Schowalter notes 1973:
"R. arkansana - 'John Allen and 'Woodrow' The latter discovered by Miss Alice Hunt of Woodrow, Sask, the former by John Allen, address unknown. These are typical arkansanas, lower growing than average but with up to 60 petals. Would be valuable ornamentals if they did not sucker so much. 'Woodrow' is a stingy breeder, but I have taken some seed from it. John Allen is somewhat more fertile.

Website/Catalog  (1949)  
 
"JOHN ALLEN - another strain of the same species [R. suffulta], almost equally attractive and very much better supplied with pollen."

Percy Wright Catalogue - Hardy and Semi-Hardy Roses p. 10
Square brackets - mine

Book  (1944)  Page(s) 76.  
 
"Rosa Suffulta as a Parent" by Percy Wright
Three natural doubles of the species have been picked up and to some extent propagated. The first is the Woodrow rose, from Woodrow in southwestern Saskatchewan; the second, unnamed, was found near Penzance in central Saskatchewan; and the third, Allan, was discovered near the North Dakota border by Agricultural Representative John Allan of North Battleford, Saskatchewan. Of these, the first, already being used by several U.S. rose breeders, is the most double and has the least pollen. The second I had, but have lost...The last is sufficiently double, and has an abundance of pollen, pollen that I have found to be fertile and active. The variety may prove to be the most valuable of all to the breeder.