"The laxa line gives me a remarkable combination of rich color (deep pink, almost red) with striking everblooming (more flowers in September than in June, & yet complete hardiness. This is my AUGUSTA rose, which is free of blackspot too. It has most of the features I am looking for, except one, strong flower stems. The flowers droop. Also it is female sterile, & probably a triploid. I have not tried it for male fertility."
--Personal correspondence, Percy Wright to Peter Harris, May 23, 1981

"I am more and more pleased with my AUGUSTA rose. It has a fully double, almost red flower and blooms its head off all summer long, being in as full bloom when the first heavy frosts hit in September as it is in June, and immune to the curculio and blackspot and mildew and rust, and completely hardy, a really wonderful combination of good features. Its only bad feature is weak necks, with the flowers mostly nodding. I can't explain how a rose bush so succulent when fall frosts hit can be so hardy. I know it is an F2 hybrid of Laxa Retzius, but don't know the details of the parentage. Too bad, for I'd like to repeat the cross.

Personal correspondence - Percy Wright to Walter Schowalter - May 11, 1979