Journal of the International Garden Club, Volume 1 page 250 (1917)
The Progress and Development of the Rose During Those One Hundred Years of Peace
H. R. Darlington
The hybrid teas have followed very much the same route. The first of them, La France, appeared in 1867. In 1873 we get two more of these new Roses, Captain Christy and Chestunt Hybrid, for which we are indebted to Mr. George Paul. Now the development has followed an exactly similar course in both cases. First the birth and recognition of the new race, then the development of the new varieties within the race. Caroline Testout and many others followed. Perhaps the two Roses which were most prolific in the production of the new race of hybrid teas were Victor Verdier, a Rose which many years before had possessed something of the character of the hybrid teas—and a wonderful Rose, which I believe I have never seen myself—Mme. de Tartas. Now Mme. de Tartas was really an extraordinary Rose, for not only was it one of the parents of Cheshunt Hybrid, but it was the foundation of another race, the race of modern Decorative Teas, among its children being Marie van Houtte, Mme. Lambard and Anna Maria de Montravel. Through the last-named Rose it has founded again yet a third race in the Polyantha Pompons. I think, therefore, I am justified in saying that Mme. de Tartas is worthy of special recognition by Rosarians.

Gardening Illustrated, vol 25, no. 775, p. 645 (Jan 13, 1894)
Noisette Roses
by P. U.
“What is the difference between a Tea and a Noisette Rose? How often I am asked that question, and how difficult—nay, impossible—it has become to state the distinction in a definite manner. If I reply that the Noisettes bloom in clusters, and my attention is called to such varieties as Mme. de Tartas, Mme. Cusine, and others, which certainly flower in trusses to a far greater extent than many recognised Noisettes."