Article (misc)  (1954)  Page(s) 41.  
 
Ophelia 28 chromosomes

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  (1949)  
 
p107.  Editor (R. T. Hamilton)
Ophelia was raised in 1912, nearly 40 years ago, and it is a remarkable tribute to it that it still is classed as one of our very best varieties. Not only does it have perfection in grace and form and fragrance of bloom, but the plant habit is almost ideal. Moreover, it can be grown in so many different ways—as a bush, a standard, or a climber. I wonder how many varieties have been raised, catalogued and forgotten since Ophelia made its bow.

p107.  Mr. H. Alston, Diamond Creek, Vic.  Six Indispensables
Ophelia for its hardness and consistency

p110.  Mr. B. Adams, Brighton, Vic. Six Indispensables
Ophelia is a shell pink, a good garden rose with long stems for the home vase.

p116.  Mr. W. A. Stewart.  Glen Iris, Victoria.  Six Indispensables.
Ophelia. Second on the list, although not necessarily my second choice. It has stood the test of time, is a vigorous grower, a good garden rose, and most useful to the exhibitor. So well known that it scarcely calls for any comment. Its flesh coloured blooms opening so perfectly when cut, add to its value.

Book  (1947)  
 
p13.  Harry H. Hazlewood.  Novelty
Richer fragrance: Autumn, Chateau de Clos Vougeot, Crimson Glory, Dame Edith Helen, Girona, Etoile de Hollande, Georg Arends, Gruss an Teplitz, Hoosier Beauty, Laurent Carle, Malar Ros, Marcia Stanhope, Mrs. Bryce Allan, Mrs. H. Brocklebank, Mrs. W. E. Lenon, Ophelia, President H. Hoover, Radiance, Rose Marie, Souv. de P. Ketten, Talisman and many others.

p34.  H. H. Hazlewood, Epping, NSW.  Favourite Roses
Many Rose lovers will endorse the claim of Ophelia as a great Rose and perhaps the greatest of them all. Elegant to a degree and a patrician in every sense, sturdy and vigorous in growth, disease resistant, bountiful and continuous in bloom, richly and pleasingly fragrant, she sets a standard of all-round excellence that raises her to the highest plane in Rose values. If further tribute were needed, it is only necessary to point to her children of very many generations, who in all parts of the Rose world, are acclaimed as first favourites because of their all-round quality and appeal.

Book  (1947)  Page(s) 125.  
 
Ophelia (Garden)  Exquisite in colour and with a delicious sweet perfume, Ophelia is one of the immortals, even if its sport, Madame Butterfly, wins more applause. Semi-double blooms of salmon flesh, rose and yellow, still pleasant when they fade. Its climber is one of the best still.  Fragrant. Habit 3. (HT)

Website/Catalog  (1946)  Page(s) 22.  
 
OPHELIA (W. Paul 1912). Fleur chair saumoné clair grande, forme parfaite, vigoureuse, très florifère.

Website/Catalog  (1945)  Page(s) 22.  
 
'Ophelia'. Semi-double salmon flesh shaded rose and yellow, a colour which is liable to fade, but even then is not objectionable and for delicious sweet fragrance alone it is worth growing.

Book  (1944)  Page(s) 76.  
 
Frank Penn, Auckland. N.Z.  The Twelve Best Roses
Ophelia (Paul, 1912): Salmon-flesh; now an old Rose, but very sweet and beautiful. Blooms on long stems with few thorns.
Fragrant. A good Rose that does well everywhere. Some may prefer Mdme. Butterfly (1918), a sport from Ophelia, with similar characteristics, but blooms are of pink and gold.

Book  (1943)  Page(s) 88.  
 
Mr. R. T. Hamilton, Heidelberg, Victoria.  Self-satisfying Roses. 
First on the list is that grand old Rose Ophelia. A number of sports have been sent out, mostly with a little more colour, but none of them surpasses the original Ophelia. Lovely refined shape in the bloom, glorious perfume, delicate colouring, long stems and vigorous growth make this a giant among Roses. I prefer the climbing variety tò the bush form.

Book  (1942)  Page(s) 20.  
 
Harry H. Hazlewood. What we Owe to Ophelia.....
On one of his periodic visits to Europe, the late E. G. Hill visited Waltham Cross Nursery, and was immediately struck by the outstanding merit of Ophelia. As a grower of Rose blooms for the American market, he was on the lookout for a variety which would stand up to the exacting conditions of glasshouse culture. One variety after another had been tried and found wanting, the general fault being that of "going to sleep" during the long winter months. In Ophelia Mr. Hill felt he had found the long sought ideal, and backed his judgment by taking back to America every plant Mr. Paul would let him purchase. How sound that judgment proved, the Rose lists of all countries testify to-day.
It is interesting to quote a comment by Dr. J. H. McFarland in 1918, editor of the "American Rose Annual": "When E. G. Hill found Ophelia... he did not realise then that he was importing a potent parent, a Rose so virile and outstanding that it would not, could not, stay within bounds."
Apart from propagating Ophelia in hundreds of thousands for the production of cut blooms, Mr. Hill immediately commenced using her as a seed parent for thousands of crosses. To-day, after a quarter of a century, the Ophelia strain is still producing high-class seedlings of outstanding excellence.
As a parent, Ophelia was unique in several respects. Not only did she possess a vigorous, healthy constitution, a long elegant bud, rich fragrance, and free flowering habit, but she had that invaluable ability to stamp these qualities on her progeny. In addition, bound up somewhere in her constitution, was a phenomenal propensity for "sporting," by which blooms identical to the parent in all except colour were continuously produced. It is' no wonder, therefore, that Ophelia was selected by hybridists the world over as a seed parent, thus paying E. G. Hill the finest possible tribute, since "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."....

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