Book  (Sep 1993)  Page(s) 129-130.  Includes photo(s).
 
Constance Spry English Rose. David Austin 1961. Description... huge flowers... versions of the globular cabbage roses in a clear shade of pink... hips for autumn... it commemorates the great flower arranger Constance Spry, an ardent lover of the Old Garden Roses. Parentage: 'Belle Isis' x 'Dainty Maid'

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 107.  
 
Shrub, light pink, 1961, ('Constanze Spry'); 'Belle Isis' x 'Dainty Maid'; Austin, D.; Sunningdale Nursery. Flowers pink, double, cupped, large (5 in.) blooms in clusters; fragrant (myrrh); foliage dark; vigorous (5-6 ft.) growth.

Book  (Feb 1993)  Page(s) 155.  Includes photo(s).
 
Constance Spry Large-flowered climber or modern shrub. Parentage: 'Belle Isis' x 'Dainty Maid' England 1961. Description and cultivation... beautiful, large, fully double, cupped, rich-pink blooms that are fragrant...

Book  (1993)  Page(s) 93.  Includes photo(s).
 
'Belle Isis' x 'Dainty Maid', 1961. Description. The original English Rose that caused such great interest when it was introduced by Graham Thomas in 1961 (through Sunningdale Nurseries). Summer-flowering. Pink. Some of the finest and largest "Old Rose" blooms of any variety, Myrrh fragrance. Named for Constance Spry (1886-1960), a pioneer in flower arrangement and one of the first collectors of Old Roses.

Book  (1993)  Page(s) 7, 24, 44.  Includes photo(s).
 
Page 7: One of the earlier varieties in David Austin's breeding program … more in the nature of a stepping stone towards the true English Roses.
Page 24-25: [Photo] ('Belle Isis' x 'Dainty Maid') -- exceptionally large cupped flowers of almost peony-like proportions … clear pink and a strong fragrance of myrrh... It forms a large sprawling shrub of great vigor which, when planted against a wall or other support, will also grow into a fine climbing rose... Introduced in 1961 by Sunningdale Nurseries... the main foundation rose in the future development of the English Roses.
Page 44: Many of the earliest varieties of English roses had an almost unique, spicy fragrance sometimes described as that of myrrh... Exactly how this scent occurred in our roses is something of a mystery. The only answer I can suggest is that 'Belle Isis', one of the founding parents of the English Roses, may have had among its antecedents a variety of the Ayrshire Roses called 'Ayrshire Splendens' … also known as the 'Myrrh-scented Rose' … the only rose, as far as I am aware, to have this particular fragrance. The first English Rose, 'Constance Spry' … has this scent to a marked degree.

[See also 1991-83 refererence]

Book  (1993)  Page(s) 189.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (1993)  Page(s) 237.  Includes photo(s).
 
Constance Spry. David Austin's first English Rose. Austin (Britain) 1961. ('Belle Isis' x 'Dainty Maid') Description. Height: 400 cm (13 ft.)

Book  (1991)  Page(s) 40.  Includes photo(s).
 
Constance Spry Raised by David Austin, Wolverhampton, in 1961, this rose is a hybrid between an old Gallica Rose, 'Belle Isis', and a floribunda, 'Dainty Maid'. The flower harks back to the most sumptuous of old roses, and has the rare fragrance of myrrh, known in only two roses of earlier origin, neither of which is in the parentage. But if a new colour could crop up in the 1920s, why not a new scent in the 1960s? The lax growth is unmanageable as a bush; it is therefore best on a wall or support....... Growths that have flowered should be shortened, old wood removed and new growths tied back in winter.

Book  (1991)  Page(s) 83.  
 
....At the back is the unique 'Belle Amour' whose colour contains a hint of salmon and whose scent foreshadows the hint of myrrh in Constance Spry.

[See also 1993-44 refererence]

Book  (1991)  Page(s) 20.  Includes photo(s).