Article (newspaper)  (27 Oct 1868)  
 
Mr Johnson, of Hawthorn, is rather famous for raising new roses, and he left for our inspection yesterday blooms of two-the ‘Duke of Edinbough’, and ‘William Taylor’. These are of slightly different shades of bright scarlet, and differ somewhat also in form. The first is large and cup-shaped when open; the latter globular, and both are very fine roses. We have not been informed as to the strains or varieties they were raised from, but they are evidently of strong, free and healthy growth.

Article (newspaper)  (29 Nov 1867)  
 
Had the Prince (the Duke of Edinbough) come he would have been offered some extraordinarily fine Victorian fruit, and the bud of a new seedling rose, grown by Mr. T. Johnson, horticulturist, expressly for the occasion, and called the 'Duke of Edinburgh'. It was a perfect specimen of a rose-bud for wearing in a coat.