Magazine  (Apr 1837)  Page(s) 129-130.  
 
Remarks on the Production of new varieties of different Flowers from Seed. By AN AMATEUR.

....You seem not to be aware, however, of the extent to which the practice has been carried in Baltimore. There is, at this time, an immense number of seedlings of all the plants you name in the collection of Samuel Feast, in this city, and all of them the product of very judicious cross impregnation.....Of roses, I think I may say with safety, he has at least five hundred specimens, all of which promise very favorably. Besides which, he has many blooming plants of excellent character, produced by him years ago. I am unable to name more than one or two, though I know he has a considerable collection. The Kúrtzii, a most beautiful tea rose, and Master Burke, the most dwarfish rose, I believe, in existence, occur to me at the moment as a sample. When three years old, the Master Burke had fine full blown and very double flowers; and the half of a common hen’s egg shell would have covered the whole bush without touching it. This I saw and assert to be a fact. It is now seven or eight years old, flowers regularly every year, affording wood for propagation, and has never yet attained two inches in height, nor its whole top exceeded one or one and a half inch in diameter. The rose is about the size of a buckshot.

Baltimore, March 20, 1837.

Magazine  (1837)  Page(s) 129-130.  
 
From correspondence by An Amateur, Baltimore (Gedeon B. Smith, Esq.) and Vol.5, 1839. "A visit to Feast's nursery in Baltimore"
Raised from seed planted about 1829-30 by Samuel Feast of Baltimore. It flowered with very double flowers about 1832-33. In 1837, when it was seven or eight years old, it reportedly flowered regularly every year with buckshot or pinhead sized flowers, and the plant was smaller than two inches high and one and a half inches in diameter. It got notice because of the description that the whole plant could be covered by half of a hen's eggshell without touching the shell. Feast reported that all attempts to propagate it failed. That means that it was never truly introduced It remained the single plant in Feast's nursery stirring the imaginations of rose fanciers. By 1839 Feast had lost the plant.

Magazine  (1833)  Page(s) 330.  
 
Two roses, exhibited by Mr. Samuel Feast, excited general interest. They are quite new varieties, raised by him from seeds of the common Tea rose, very probably with an admixture of some other variety. ...
...The other Rose, likewise obtained from seed by Mr. Feast, is the most curious Rose perhaps ever produced. It is a dwarf, and so completely does it vindicate its title to that appellation, that, although it has now reached the termination of its third year, the bush is not quite two inches in height! It is a sturdy little affair, well furnished with branches, and clothed with leaves of a surprising neatness. The blossoms are quite as extraordinary; they are double, of a beautiful color, and very well formed, of a little more than half the diameter of a five-cent piece! It is a real bijou, and has been named Master Burke, having flowered for the first time, during the period when the young Roscius was performing here on on his first engagement