The Rose Annual (The National Rose Society, 1907-1965) (1920)  Page(s) 88.  
 
H. R. Darlington. Decorative Roses
The most beautifully formed flowers are to be found in Mrs. Herbert Stevens, a white Tea Rose and... Mrs. Herbert Stevens is an excellent bedding Rose, very little troubled with disease, and very free flowering, most beautiful in the bud, which is long and pointed, and inclined in all stages. If disbudded the flowers will attain considerable size, but I think this is not the most desirable way to grow it.

A Peony Check-List (1907)  Page(s) 161.  
 
1831. ODIER, LOUISE; P. moutan.
(1) 1899, Louis Paillet's Cat.

Peonies, The Manual of the American Peony Society (1928)  Page(s) 258.  
 
Tree Peony Check List
†Louise Odier. (1889.) Louis Paillet 1889 as new. 

† Never widely distributed.

The Rose Annual (The National Rose Society, 1907-1965) (1920)  Page(s) 87.  
 
H. R. Darlington. Decorative Roses
Old Gold and Lady Pirrie are only semi-double flowers, both are of beautiful form in the bud but lack this quality in the open flower. They are good growers, Lady Pirrie being perhaps the better of the two, and have large and good foliage not seriously liable to mildew. The fault of Old Gold is the very fleeting period during which the buds retain their beautiful form. Lady Pirrie is rather better in this respect, and is the better garden plant. It makes a fine standard. The colour is coppery salmon.

The Rose Annual (The National Rose Society, 1907-1965) (1920)  Page(s) 87.  
 
H. R. Darlington. Decorative Roses
Old Gold and Lady Pirrie are only semi-double flowers, both are of beautiful form in the bud but lack this quality in the open flower. They are good growers, Lady Pirrie being perhaps the better of the two, and have large and good foliage not seriously liable to mildew. The fault of Old Gold is the very fleeting period during which the buds retain their beautiful form. Lady Pirrie is rather better in this respect, and is the better garden plant. It makes a fine standard. The colour is coppery salmon.

The Rose Annual (The National Rose Society, 1907-1965) (1920)  Page(s) 87.  
 
p87.  H. R. Darlington. Decorative Roses
From the point of view of form two are singles, Irish Elegance and Irish Fireflame, both have beautifully formed long buds, and to be shown at their best should be picked at this stage, all fully opened flowers being removed, and the stems should then be placed in water and the flowers opened indoors. In colour the buds of Irish Elegance are a bright orange pink, while that of the open flower is a soft shade of pink on a slightly yellow ground. Irish Fireflame, on the other hand, is a decidedly harder colour, having more red in it. Irish Fireflame is perhaps more striking and brilliant in the showroom, but personally I do not find it of so pleasing a hue. Both plants are good growers but Irish Elegance is a good deal the stronger grower. The foliage is good in both cases, it is somewhat liable to mildew but not so seriously that it cannot readily be kept clean by the timely use of flowers of sulphur.

The Rose Annual (The National Rose Society, 1907-1965) (1920)  Page(s) 83.  
 
H. R. Darlington.  Decorative Roses
...the flowers in the vases for the most part show only their backs. In the garden this character if not carried to excess as, say, in British Queen, is not altogether a disadvantage, for the slightly pendant flowers are more graceful and less soon spoiled by a shower of rain than if they stand bolt upright

The Rose Annual (The National Rose Society, 1907-1965) (1920)  Page(s) 83.  
 
H. R. Darlington.  Decorative Roses. 
Take a vase of Lady Roberts; the flowers as cut from the plant are naturally rather pendant; to arrange them in their natural state as cut from the plant takes a long time, and even then the flowers in the vases for the most part show only their backs.

The Rose Annual (The National Rose Society, 1907-1965) (1920)  Page(s) 72.  
 
H. R. Darlington.  Decorative Roses. 
...roses in pots which were undoubtedly a feature of the Rose Shows of the 5th and 6th decades of last century. The Hybrid Chinas were favourite Roses for this purpose, and the examples of which one has heard tell, e.g., a Charles Lawson with 150 blooms out at once, must have been supreme examples of the grower's art.

The Rose Annual (The National Rose Society, 1907-1965) (1920)  Page(s) 70.  
 
Walter Easlea.  Autumn Flowering Climbing Roses.
Moderate growers - I had almost forgotten one lovely old Rose, Stanwell Perpetual (Scotch). This Rose is still blooming freely; in fact one has not been without its lovely blooms since May. It is growing upon a lattice fence 7-ft. in height and also running rampant among the neighbour's branches, a Deutzia Crenata.