Magazine  (29 Jun 1895)  Page(s) 443.  
 
About four years ago, Storrs & Harrison, Painesville, O., who were propagating it for introduction, sent us a strong plant of the Agnes Emily Carman hybrid Rugosa rose. The bush is now, June 10, about five feet high, and about the same in diameter, bearing, as well as we could estimate, 200 roses in more or less full bloom, and not less than 600 buds. The fully opened flowers are three inches in diameter, so that the bush was a mass of brilliant crimson and dark green. The odor from these flowers perfumed the air for at least 25 feet about the bush. Never, that we have seen, has a twig of this exceedingly hardy rose been harmed during the dormant season. We do not suppose that florists will ever praise it. or even know of it. The rose is not for them. The stems are too short and thorny, and the buds are borne in clusters. But, we dare say that, in due time, it will be fairly appreciated by those who do not care to fuss with tender, or unreliably hardy roses.

Magazine  (23 Feb 1895)  Page(s) 118.  
 
The Storrs & Harrison Company, Painesville, O. ...general catalogue ....An illustration is given of the Hybrid Rosa Rugosa rose, Agnes Emily Carman. 

Magazine  (3 Nov 1894)  Page(s) 699.  
 
Mr. E. G. Grindrod, Ellensburgh, Wash., has this to say of the R. N.-Y. Rugosa hybrid : “ I am very much pleased with the Carman rose sent by you last fall. It has made a good growth and commenced to bloom the early part of August, and has continued in bloom most of the time since. The buds are borne, always, three in a cluster and blossom one at a time, followed in a few days by another, so that by the time the first bloom is falling the second is opening, followed at about the same interval by the third. The color is-well, not pink, as one of your subscribers reported. Its fragrance is delightful ” The color may best be described by saying that it is the color of Jacqueminot - a purplish crimson, as nearly as we can describe it. We would again remind our friends that the fine foliage of this rose does not fully show itself until the second or third season after transplanting.

Magazine  (16 Jun 1894)  Page(s) 378.  
 
HOW TO ROOT CUTTINGS OF RUGOSA HYBRIDS —It was stated under Ruralisms last week that a friend (an experienced rose grower) of Dr. W. Van Fleet, of West Grove, Pa., had met with easy success in striking cuttings of the hybrid Rugosa, Agnes Emily Carman. Dr. Van Fleet, at our request, asked his friend to explain his method to THE R. N.-Y., and he has kindly complied as follows:
“On December 21, 1893, I potted one budded stock plant of the rose Agnes Emily Carman into a six-inch pot. The soil used was ordinary loam from an old fence row; no manure was used. The house in which the plant was grown is 100 feet long and 18 feet wide, two-thirds span, with a southern exposure and heated by flues. A night temperature of 50 to 56 degrees was maintained, and a daily temperature of 60 to 75 degrees, with proper ventilation during favorable weather. The first crop, consisting or 51 cuttings, nearly all made with a single eye, was planted in pure, sharp limestone sand, in the south bench of the same house in which the stock plant was grown. The heat supply was from an eight-inch terra cotta pipe under the bench; distance from the fire box, about 75 feet. The entire length of the flue is 100 feet, with open circulation. The cuttings were well watered and covered with paper when necessary, and never were allowed to become dry. On March 28, 1894, 44 of the cuttings were rooted and potted in 2 1/2-inch pots, good, fresh loam without manure being used. On March 31, the second crop of cuttings, 36 in number, was planted; 20 of these rooted and were potted May 10, making the total number from one plant 64, to date.” 
ANTOINE WINTZER. West Grove, Pa.

Magazine  (9 Jun 1894)  Page(s) vol. 53 no. 2315 p. 363.  
 
Our friend Dr. W. Van Fleet, of West Grove, Pa., writes us that Mr. Antoine Wintzer, who propagated for the Dingee & Conard Co., for many years, secured 53 cuttings from his Agnes Emily Carman (Rugosa hybrid) rose, received from the Storrs & Harrison Co. last November, and succeeded in rooting 48 of them. The plants are now thrifty in 2 1/2-inch pots. We would be glad to know how Mr. Wintzer succeeds in rooting these Rugosa cuttings. Certain it is that Storrs & Harrison—among our most experienced growers—were obliged to bud on Manetti. So, too, the firm that is propagating the other Rugosa hybrids of THE R. N.-Y. failed in rooting the cuttings, though several methods were tried.

Magazine  (10 Mar 1894)  Page(s) 154.  
 
In the excellent catalogue of Ellwanger & Barry, briefiy noticed last week, we find the Agnes Emily Carman rose offered. The description says that it is “very hardy.” In another part the Georges Bruant is described as “exceptionally hardy,” by which it may be assumed that the latter is hardier than the former. The reverse is true if we may take our own experience as a guide, as the two roses have been growing at the Rural Grounds within 50 feet of each other for three years. The foliage of either variety is simply superb, but that of Bruant mildews more or less every year. Last winter was severe upon all roses. The canes of Bruant were killed nearly to the ground. Those of the Carman were not harmed in the least. The foliage does not mildew. In the interests of authentic rose history, we are in hopes that it will be stated that the A. E. Carman was the first Rugosa hybrid, of which a printed, illustrated account has been given. The cross was made, according to these printed reports, during the summer of 1886. The seeds were started during the winter of 1887, and it bloomed (this was the first of the lot to bloom) in the fall of the same year, and an illustration appeared shortly after in these columns. This was before the G. Bruant rose was heard of. Its introduction was announced nearly, if not quite one year afterward, and we learn that very few plants were then sold. —the one a pure white, the other a brilliant crimson.

Magazine  (3 Mar 1894)  Page(s) 129.  
 
The Storrs & Harrison Co. .... The Agnes Emily Carman Rugosa hybrid is offered—field-grown plants—for 50 cents each

Magazine  (13 May 1893)  Page(s) 334.  
 
The Emily Agnes Carman Rose. —We are sorry to see that the beautiful Georges Bruant has been seriously injured by the past winter. This rose, it will be remembered, is half Tea (Sombreuil) and half Rosa rugosa. Fifty feet away and in a less favorable exposure, the Agnes Emily Carman rose has not been injured in the least, which may be said of few other roses in The Rural's little collection. The female parent of the latter, as has often been stated, was Rosa rugosa, the male parent Harrison’s Yellow. This hybrid originated at the Rural Grounds two years before the Georges Bruant was introduced, and might have been introduced before the Bruant had the difficulty of propagating it been known at the start. The R. N.-Y. has no pecuniary interest in the Carman rose whatever, and we speak of it now as we would of any other tested novelty of remarkable merit. What are its merits? First, exceeding hardiness. Second, the foliage resembles that of the female parent, Rosa rugosa, while the leaflets are much larger. Third, the color and odor of the flower are similar to those of Gen. Jacqueminot, and, last, it has more than one period of bloom during the season. The rose is now offered for sale by the Storrs & Harrison Co., of Painesville, O., who control the entire stock. A life-size picture of the leaves and buds and flowers is promised. The R. N.-Y., and faithful engravings will appear in these columns in due time.

Magazine  (29 Oct 1892)  Page(s) 703.  
 
It was in 1886 that E. S. Carman, the Editor of The Rural New-Yorker, first crossed the pink variety, using pollen of the Austrian hardy yellow rose, Harison’s Yellow, as the pollen parent. The next year pollen from Hybrid Perpetuals was used and in following seasons from Hybrid Teas, upon both the pink and white Rugosa. From these crosses hundreds of plants have been raised, most of them worthless— except as curiosities —but some of them of rare and remarkable beauty, unlike any other roses known to the world. It is not assumed that any of these hybrids will ever be prized by florists. The stems are too short and spiny and they are too difficult to propagate. They will be duly prized, however, by all who love hardy garden roses, that, with ordinary care, will thrive from year to year for a life-time. They will be prized because they differ from all other roses, as well in their buds and flowers as in their form and exquisite foliage. They will be prized as the roses for the million.

Magazine  (1 Oct 1892)  Page(s) 24.  
 
MR. E. S. CARMAN'S ROSA RUGOSA HYBRIDS.
Elbert S. Carman
River Edge, Bergen Co, N.J. Aug. 31, '92.
The strange and to me unaccountable development of this lot of hybrids is that one, with leaflets much larger than those of rugosa and of the same rugosa veining, should bear roses of the size, color and odor of Gen. Jacqueminot. This rose—named "Agnes Emily Carman", after one who has helped me in all this work more than I have helped myself—was placed in the hands of The Storrs & Harrison Co. of Ohio for propagation and introduction. Much to my sorrow difficulties were found in the propagation, so that instead of appearing before the world as the first valuable Rosa rugosa hybrid, the grand rose Georges Bruant was soon after announced in the market. This, however, is half tea blood, so that the other may still be offered— this fall I trust—as the first rugosa hybrid of hardy male parentage.