Book  (1849)  Page(s) 579.  
 
R. damascena...Newer varieties with double blooms:...Duke of Cambridge

Book  (1848)  Page(s) Div. II. p. 21.  
 
Damask Roses....Duke de Cambridge; flowers deep purplish rose, large and full; form compact, perfect. Foliage of a dark green, the young leaves edged with reddish brown. Habit, branching; growth, robust.

Book  (1848)  Page(s) 13.  
 
M . Laffay, another distinguished cultivator, owns a list of names no less worthy. Who, even among modern Rose cultivators, is not familiar with Archduc Charles, Fabvier, Brennus, William Jesse, Coup D'Amour, Duke of Devonshire, Duke of Cambridge, Victor Hugo?

Website/Catalog  (1845)  Page(s) 59.  
 
Damask Roses. -- Rosa damascena.
470. Duke of Cambridge, $1... cupped form. Rosy red, robust habit.

Book  (1840)  Page(s) 70-71.  
 
Some pretty and interesting varieties have lately been added to these favourites of the poets. The Duke of Cambridge—which I at first thought a Hybrid China, will perhaps be better grouped with the Damask roses, of which it largely partakes—is a very fine rose, of a vivid rose colour, and robust luxuriant growth.