Magazine  (30 Oct 1909)  Page(s) 529.  
 
Mrs. Paul, Bourb., Paul and Son.

Book  (1906)  Page(s) 121.  
 
7.914  Mistress Paul,  Ile Bourbon,  G. Paul  1891 blanc carminé

Website/Catalog  (1894)  Page(s) 181.  
 
Bourbon Perpetuals.
Mrs Paul  (Bourbon). Blush white, shaded with rosy peach, a camellia-like flower with thick, bold petals. This is a grand new Rose, and was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Horticultural Society of England.

Website/Catalog  (1894)  Page(s) 8.  
 

Out-Door Bedding Roses.
Perpetual Bloomers.
Mrs. Paul. (Bourbon.)  Beautiful pearl white in color, with satin sheen.  This is like Malmaison in growth and form of flower; won the gold medal prize over all competition in its class.  A valuable addition, indeed.  $8.00 per 100.

(3 Dec 1892)  Page(s) 13.  
 
Messrs Brunning and Sons have flowered several new new roses during the present season.... Mrs Paul is a Bourbon, blush white, shaded with rosy peach.

Book  (1892)  Page(s) 207.  
 
Mrs. Paul. Various dealers. Has the vigorous habit and handsome foliage of the seed parent, Mme. Issac Pereire, as well as its thoroughly perpetual character. In addition, it produces flowers of great beauty and exceptional distinctness. The magnificent guard-petals, for smoothness of contour, size and substance, are unsurpassed, while the pearly white color, sometimes suffused with ....

Magazine  (Feb 1891)  Page(s) 17.  
 
ROSIER Mrs. PAUL. — C'est sans contredit une des plus belles variétés de roses de 1890. Elle appartient au groupe des rosiers Bourbons et a été obtenue, par voie de semis ou peut-être par dimorphisme, de la Rose M^me Isaac Pereire, par le rosiériste bien connu M. George Paul, de Cheshunt, près de Londres. La plante a conservé le port vigoureux et le beau feuillage de son ascendant; elle est parfaitement remontante et bien florifère. La forme de la fleur est irréprochable et sa grandeur de premier ordre; son coloris est blanc nacré lavé d’une riche nuance de pêche.

Magazine  (22 Nov 1890)  Page(s) 484-485.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rose Mrs. Paul.
With the immensely increased cultivation of Tea-scented Roses, it seemed at one time not improbable that the Bourbons would be altogether lost sight of, in spite of their good qualities of vigour, hardiness, and everblooming. In 1880, however, M. Margottin sent out a Bourbon Rose which attracted general attention on account of its immense vigour, its very free and perpetual character, and the great size of its blooms, but it unfortunately became apparent upon extended trial that the blooms were constitutionally coarse and not interesting in colour, and Mme. Isaac Pereire, as the Rose in question was called, seemed likely to be soon discarded. It occurred, however, to Mr. George Paul, of the Old Nurseries, Cheshunt, who has for some years devoted his chief attention, in raising seedling Roses, to obtaining varieties of increased vigour and of more genuine perpetual character, that the vigour and freedom of Mme. Isaac Pereire might be made use of, in spite of the lack of quality in the flowers; the modification of the blossom being probably more easily effected than that of the character of the plant. Mr. George Paul therefore set to work to raise seedlings from Mme. Isaac Pereire in the hope of obtaining varieties which should retain the splendid habit and constitution of their parent, while possessing flowers of greater refinement and beauty of colour.
This hope has been fully realised in the beautiful seedling, of which the accompanying plate gives an excellent portrait- rather full in colour, but in all other respects displaying to admiration the character of the variety- and of which the raiser's opinion is pretty clearly indicated by the fact of his having given it a name deservedly held in highest esteem by all rosarians, namely, that of Mrs. Paul. The plant retains the vigorous habit and handsome foliage of the seed parent as well as its thoroughly perpetual character, so that it will make a valuable addition to the number of Roses that may be desirably grown as standards; but, in addition to these good points, it produces flowers of great beauty and exceptional distinctness. The magnificent guard petals, which for smoothness of contour, size, and substance are unsurpassed, give the flower a very distinguished character, while their pearly-white colour, sometimes suffused with a soft peach shade, is very pleasing.
That exhibitors will find Mrs. Paul a valuable addition can hardly be doubted, seeing that it received the highest possible award, namely, the gold medal of the National Rose Society, at the society's metropolitan exhibition at the Crystal Palace last July. But its value for exhibition is not the most important point to consider in estimating a new Rose, and it is far more satisfactory to be able to say that it is quite certain that Mrs. Paul will be welcome in every garden on account of the possession of all important good qualities.
Not that it is desired to suggest or maintain the old superstition that an exhibition Rose is necessarily undesirable for the general cultivator; on the contrary, as has been so often urged, many of the Roses most frequently exhibited are also among the best for producing a brilliant display in the garden. But the fact remains that there are many Roses that are weakly growers or are of delicate constitution which, nevertheless, produce very perfect flowers, and are consequently still cultivated by exhibitors, although such varieties are of little value to the non-exhibiting grower. No such Rose, however, is Mrs. Paul; beautiful the flowers are exceedingly, and often will they be exhibited; but it is because they are produced in profusion, and continuously, upon a hardy and vigorous plant that is always clothed with magnificent deep green glossy foliage, that the celebrated Cheshunt firm is to be specially congratulated upon its last addition to our steadily lengthening list of first-rate English Roses. —T. W. Girdlestone.