Website/Catalog  (12 Mar 2018)  
 
Registered Name:'Southampton' 
Synonyms:'Susan Ann'
ARS Approved Exhibition Name: Southampton F, ab, 1971, Harkness; bud pointed; flowers apricot-orange, flushed red on guard petals, 3 in., 28 petals, cupped, borne in clusters, moderate fragrance; free-flowering; foliage glossy; vigorous (3½ ft.) growth [(Ann Elizabeth × Allgold) × Yellow Cushion]. Awards: Gold Medal, Belfast, 1974

Newsletter  (Feb 2010)  Page(s) 39.  
 
Major Chemical Compounds (%) responsible for fragrance in Selected Cultivars....
'Southampton'  Phenylethanol 22.1; Phenylethyl acetate 42.0

Book  (1996)  Page(s) 79.  
 
Southampton ('Susan Ann') Cluster-flowered (Floribunda) bush. Description. Flowers: apricot, flushed rose red. Parentage: ('Ann Elizabeth' x 'Allgold') x 'Yellow Cushion'. Harkness (England) 1972.

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 563.  
 
Southampton Floribunda, apricot & apricot blend, 1921, ('Susan Ann'); ('Ann Elizabeth' x 'Allgold') x 'Yellow Cushion'); Harkness. Description.

Book  (Feb 1993)  Page(s) 249.  Includes photo(s).
 
Southampton ('Susan Ann') Cluster-flowered floribunda. Parentage: ('Ann Elizabeth' x 'Allgold') x 'Yellow Cushion'. England 1972. Description and cultivation... Pointed buds open to marmalade coloured flowers flushed with orange and scarlet; lightly fragrant, large and fully double...

Book  (1993)  Page(s) 177.  Includes photo(s).
 
Floribunda. Harkness (Britain) 1972. (('Ann Elizabeth' x 'Allgold') x 'Yellow Cushion') Repeats. Disease resistance. Height: 90 cm (3 ft.) Good scent.

Book  (1985)  Page(s) 164, 166.  
 
p. 164: Two seedlings from that first year's [1962] work were to give me some fine roses in the future; one was 'Anne Elizabeth' x 'Allgold'; the other 'Orange Sensation' x 'Allgold'. They were never introduced, because they were not in their own right marketable varieties. I called them 'half-way houses'. The influence of both is well marked in our breeding to this day.

p. 166: Among my varieties some of the best known are 'Alexander', 'Compassion', 'Mountbatten', 'Yesterday', 'Elizabeth Harkness', 'Southampton' and 'Amber Queen'. 

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 50.  
 
Southampton The raiser describes this as an apricot orange, a marvellous bedder, showy and healthy. We have nothing to add to this beyond saying that it is tall and upright and good. Tall. Harkness 1972.

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 18.  
 
Susan Ann ® Harkness 1972. Floribunda à très belle végétation. Feuillage lustré. Fleurs abricot mi-doubles, assez grandes. Variété spécialement résistante et florifère.

Book  (1982)  Page(s) 163.  
 
Jack Harkness [reviewing Modern Roses 8].
The parentage is wrong for 'Southampton'....