Conard & Jones 1906
Bessie Brown --This is a noble rose of extra fine quality, and besides being wonderfully beautiful is a strong vigorous, grower sure to grow and bloom finely the whole season in the open border, bears large full flowers of extraordinary depth and fullness and is deliciously sweet, color pure white clouded and splashed with rose pink; a most beautiful and valuable rose in every way.

Proc. and Bull. American Rose Society (1908) pp. 55-61
Essay on Hybridisation.
By Alex. Dickson, Acting Director of Alex. Dickson & Sons, Ltd., Royal Irish Nurseries, Newtownards, County Down.

Out of many hundreds of crosses with this rose [La France], only in one single instance did we succeed in making it produce seed, but we feel that the labour we spent was amply repaid, as the ultimate result of it was the introduction of Mrs. W. J. Grant, known to you as Belle Siebrecht, in our opinion one of the finest roses in cultivation, at least from the Britishers' standpoint. In addition to this, we have always found from practical experience, the roses descended from this particular cross have always impressed their offspring with some at least of the more prominent qualities of the parents, and it was pursuing this particular line of breeding that enabled us to produce varieties, which from a British standpoint are ideal exhibition flowers, and at the same time the plants are floriferous and of excellent constitution. In this group we might mention ... Bessie Brown ...