From The Garden, October 13, 1900, p278 Accompanying text reads: "A NEW SEEDLING ROSE. The accompanying illustration represents a new Tea Rose raised by Messrs. Benjamin Cant and Sons in their nursery at Colchester, and appropriately named after Mrs. B. R. Cant, widow of our friend 'Ben,' as we affectionately regarded him. As reported in The Garden of September 29, page 255, an award of merit of the Royal Horticultural Society was given unanimously to this Tea Rose, and we are not surprised at the decision. It is a Rose of remarkable vigour, so much so that in rows of Tea Roses its strong and abundant shoots are conspicuous, and the distinct pretty blue-green colour of the leaves is almost sufficient in itself to make the variety of some importance in the garden. In addition to this virtue, there is the crimson colouring of the new shoots and sweetly-scented flowers of deep rose, with broad and long petals, and every plant, until frost bids all blossoms depart, is loaded with buds and open flowers."
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From The Garden, October 13, 1900, p278
Accompanying text reads:
"A NEW SEEDLING ROSE.
The accompanying illustration represents a new Tea Rose raised by Messrs. Benjamin Cant and Sons in their nursery at Colchester, and appropriately named after Mrs. B. R. Cant, widow of our friend 'Ben,' as we affectionately regarded him. As reported in The Garden of September 29, page 255, an award of merit of the Royal Horticultural Society was given unanimously to this Tea Rose, and we are not surprised at the decision. It is a Rose of remarkable vigour, so much so that in rows of Tea Roses its strong and abundant shoots are conspicuous, and the distinct pretty blue-green colour of the leaves is almost sufficient in itself to make the variety of some importance in the garden. In addition to this virtue, there is the crimson colouring of the new shoots and sweetly-scented flowers of deep rose, with broad and long petals, and every plant, until frost bids all blossoms depart, is loaded with buds and open flowers."