Website/Catalog  (1960)  Page(s) 12.  
 
MADAME BUTTERFLY (E.G. Hill 1918). Rose clair brillant légèrement nuancé de jaune. + [conseillées pour fleurs coupées de plein air.]

Book  (1958)  Page(s) 242.  
 
Mme. Butterfly. HT. (E. G. Hill Co., '18.) Ophelia sport. Dbl. (30 petals), well formed, very fragrant, light pink tinted gold. Vig., well branched.

Book  (1953)  Page(s) 85.  
 
Frank Penn. Auckland, NZ.  Twelve Good Roses.
Ophelia (Paul, 1912) or her half-sister, Mme. Butterfly (1918).—Now an old rose, but as popular as ever, and likely to remain a favourite. The salmon yellow and flesh-coloured blooms are exceedingly sweet, clean and of good form, borne on long stems, making it ideal for decorations. Mme. Butterfly, a sport from Ophelia, has much the same chacteristics, slightly more pink as a rule and with the same delicious perfume. 

Book  (1948)  Page(s) 98.  
 
Norman Lambert, York. Leaves From An English Rose-Lover's Notebook.
Madame Butterfly shows her full beauty at the fall, when the autumn days are cool and still. It is then that the colour deepens a little and pales off into a shell-pink that gradually fades away into opalescence, and the form is shapely, with high centre and beautifully rolled petals, and a fragrance that makes the critic of loss of scent in modern roses pause to think. Madame Butterfly is prettier in autumn dress than in high summer. I know of no rose but those of the Butterfly type that can change so much.

Website/Catalog  (1948)  Page(s) 19.  Includes photo(s).
 
Madame Butterfly

Book  (1947)  Page(s) 120.  
 
Madame Butterfly (Garden & Show) This sport from Ophelia is a byword of the rose world. Superb form, but semi-double and opens quickly. A grand flowerer and good grower. Colour bright pink blending to apricot and gold. Usually in Autumn the pink deepens almost to rose. A fine garden rose on any count, and can produce a class show flower at times. Sweet perfume. Fragrant. Habit 3. (HT)

Website/Catalog  (1946)  Page(s) 20.  
 
MADAME BUTTERFLY (E. G. Hill 1918). Fleur grande, pleine, coloris clair, rose brillant et jaune.

Website/Catalog  (1945)  Page(s) 21.  
 
'Madame Butterfly'. A sport from 'Ophelia' which is highly recommended. the colour is best described as a harmony of bright pink, apricot and gold, while added to perfect shape and mildew-proof foliage, there are the additional qualities of a rich sweet perfume, vigorous growth and freedom of bloom. At times the colour fades, but just as often it is much richer, and the blooms are even larger than the parent. Its most serious fault is of opening quickly, owing to its being semi-double.

Book  (1941)  Page(s) 83.  
 
S. B. Watkins.  The Fragrance of the Rose.
... Ophelia and Madame Butterfly, for they are possessed of outstanding fragrance.

Book  (1940)  Page(s) 119.  
 
Mr. Frank Penn, Auckland, NZ.  Ophelia and Her Sports. 
Madame Butterfly , one of the best of these sports, introduced by  E. G. Hill in 1918, is perhaps more vigorous than her parent, and has a little more pink in its colouring. It gives a wonderful lot of choice blooms.   Both Ophelia and Madame Butterfly can now be had in climbing form, and both are excellent, the only defect being a tendency to bloom at the end of the long branches, leaving the base rather bare.