Website/Catalog  (1976)  Page(s) 22.  
 
SOMBREUIL (Robert 1850). Blanc saumoné

Website/Catalog  (1951)  Page(s) 72.  
 
COLLECTORS' ITEMS. Listed below are varieties old and new, in VERY limited supply for 1951. They are too few for full catalog description...too many for our own use in propagating...too good to be omitted. Most varieties are those which were especially admired on the writer's eastern trip, 1949, ow in process of commercial production...
Sombreuil Tea. (1951) Creamy-white...wanted by so many will grow it again.
[ed. note: we do not know if this is the first appearance of "Sombreuil/Colonial White" or if this was the true Tea that was later confused with "Sombreuil/Colonial White."]

Book  (1947)  Page(s) 244.  
 
Sombreuil. T . Moreau-Robert, 1851. Gigantesque seedling . Very large, dbl, flat, well formed, creamy white, often tinted pink. Vig.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 672.  
 
Sombreuil (tea) Robert 1850; seedling of Gigantesque; cream-white, center salmon-pink, large, 3/4-full, flat, fine form, solitary or up to 5, fragrance 5/10, floriferous, repeats well, autumn-bloomer, growth 7/10, upright, 1,25 [m.], robust. Sangerhausen

Book  (1935)  Page(s) 111.  Includes photo(s).
 
Sombreuil, 1851, came from a fine old garden sadly out of past glory. This rose differs from all those preceding by having a marked and distinguishable mixture of Bourbon blood in the Tea rose ancestry. The full, fragrant bloom has a fine expanded form, within which very strongly textured petals stand in excellent order and stiffness, making a grand rose of creamy white tinted with pale pink or pinkish white, depending on the weather, becoming white eventually and lasting in form a long time; blooming in large clusters on a very sturdy bush with dark green foliage, quite leathery and more deeply serrate than the pure Tea foliage. Sombreuil, with all this resistant toughness, should be the finest white Tea rose of the garden, and is such in dry, clear, sunny weather but a too moist spring causes the blooms to ball badly.

Website/Catalog  (1927)  Page(s) 35.  
 
Worth-while Roses.
White Roses.
Field-grown, strong 2-year plants, $1 each, $7.50 for 10, $50 per 100
Sombreuil.  Tea.  White, tinged delicate rose.  Should be largely planted.

(1924)  Page(s) 25.  
 
Rosiers Thé...Sombreuil (Robert 51). Fl. blanc légèrement rosé, gr., pl., odor., s'ouvrant bien. Arbr. tr. vig., sarment., rustique, fl. en panicules, assez rustique, tr. florif.

Magazine  (1923)  Page(s) 18.  
 
Rosiers grimpants pour pergolas, portiques, pylones..
Sombreuil, blanc et saumone.

Book  (1922)  Page(s) 431.  
 
[in the listing of roses in commerce] Sombreuil (T.) Robert 1850 - Flower creamy-white, changing to milky white, tinged with rose, large, full, fragrant, opening well, produced in panicles. Growth very vigorous, semi-climbing, very floriferous.

Website/Catalog  (1914)  Page(s) 15.  
 
Tea Roses. Sombreuil. White with some salmon, floriferous, Forcing rose.