Australian Rose Annual (1939)  Page(s) 39.  
 
Frank Moore, Rose Echoes From the Homeland.
Now to close with a brief eulogy of "the best Rose in the world" and the man whose name it bears-" Uncle Bill," alias William Moore, of Ickenham, Middlesex, holds such a place among English amateurs as W.G. held in the world of cricket. It is difficult to persuade him to talk of his triumphs, but to my personal knowledge he has won over eight hundred first prizes since the war. All his laurels are the results of his own unaided labour, and some of them in open classes against our idle aristocracy, who think little of employing half a dozen gardeners and spending four figures annually on "their" Roses. When the late Sam McGredy asked Uncle Bill to choose a seedling to perpetuate his name, William Moore made no mistake - a better Rose never bloomed. In growth and habit, shape and size, fragrance, form and freedom, here is perfection. If you grumble at the colour, remember the pink is fadeless and never insipid. With reasonable culture I have never seen a bed which has failed to give an unending series of exhibition flowers from June to the frosts. I hope that you will all grow the Rose, and I should appreciate opinions.

Australian Rose Annual (1939)  Page(s) 38.  
 
Frank Moore, Rose Echoes From the Homeland.
The Doctor reminded me of Leading Lady, who seemed to me to be one of the few well-named Roses with a sheen-like satin on the smooth perfection of her petals.

Australian Rose Annual (1939)  Page(s) 38.  
 
Frank Moore, Rose Echoes From the Homeland.
Two years ago, however, an old friend of mine, George Lilley, of Burnham, Buckinghamshire, found and fixed a coral sport of that very elegant decorative Rose, Leni Neuss. George Lilley was a professional Rose grower in a " small" way, but he had a great heart, was an honest judge and a good friend, so that we made him name the Rose after himself, in the sincere hope that the flower would carry on his name and reproduce his virtues. If you grow Leni Neuss do grow George Lilley, for if you like the parent you will love the child. 

Australian Rose Annual (1939)  Page(s) 38.  
 
Frank Moore, Rose Echoes From the Homeland.
I do not know if you have ever longed for that strange compelling coral pink of Los Angeles in a Rose less temperamental and perhaps with longer petals. I find the colour has a fascination which has not been rivalled by any other Rose.

Australian Rose Annual (1939)  Page(s) 38.  
 
Frank Moore, Rose Echoes From the Homeland.
...  we eliminated the competitors to a George Dickson, Barbara Richards and the new light yellow seedling Sam McGredy. The old gentleman was considered to have been past his best, and dear Barbara (what a lovable thing she is in any company!) was most fatuously considered to be too easy to grow. So Sam had the medal which he did not deserve, and which he is unlikely to have again. I am sorry that the late Mr. S. McGredy, one of the greatest hybridists who ever lived, should not have been immortalised by a better Rose. The flowers are large, rather flat, with fine sturdy petals, but not nearly enough of them.

Nomenclature de tous les Noms De Roses, 2nd edition, 1906 (1906)  Page(s) 149.  
 
9.636. Rosinella, Centifolia moussu, cramoisi

Prince's Descriptive Catalogue (1845)  Page(s) 88.  
 
Moss Roses. Rosa centifolia muscosa.
783. Rosinella...splendid new variety, will be for sale in the autumn of 1844.

Hovey & Co. Catalogue of Roses (1845)  Page(s) 8.  
 
Summer Roses. Flowering in June and July.
Moss Roses (R. centifolia var. provincialis muscosa.)
303. Rosinella...expanded bloom form, fine crimson purple...

Ellwanger & Barry's Descriptive Catalogue of Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, Flowering Plants, &c. (1846)  Page(s) 35.  
 
Summer Roses_Flowering in June and July
Moss Roses. (Rosa Muscosa.)
57 Rosinella...$2 00. Light crimson; new and fine.

Verzeichniss der Rosensammlung von J. Ernst Herger zu Köstritz (1850)  Page(s) 9.  
 
Centifolia Muscosa: Die Mossrose.
128 Rosinella, dunkelroth mit purpur, gefüllt, schön gebaut, dunkelolivenbraun bemoost und dunkel belaubt.

The Moss Rose.
Rosinella, the double, shapely flower is dark red with purple; the moss is a dark olive-brown, and the foliage is dark.