Website/Catalog  (8 Aug 2015)  
 
Registered Name: 'Worthington'
ARS Approved Exhibition Name: Worthington
(natural variation of R. setigera), lp; flowers clear pink

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 234.  
 
Elegans (setigera) Feast ca. 1840; = Chilicothe (multiflora)

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 153.  
 
Chilicothe (multiflora) Feast ca. 1840; = Elegans.

Book  (1909)  Page(s) 256.  
 
Rosa sempervirens Elegans, fleurs rose chair, moyenne et pleine.

Magazine  (5 Jun 1880)  Page(s) 503.  
 
Mr. Buist, the well-known nurseryman of Philadelphia, raised several fine seedlings of Bengal, or Noisettes, and tried his hand at the Prairies, but, beginning with the old Elegans or Kentucky Multiflora, a poor semi-double variety, I presume he did not succeed, as I never heard of any fine kinds of his growth.

Magazine  (Oct 1850)  Page(s) 50. 1(1).  
 
A. Warder, Md. Prairie Roses.
... the semi-double, peach-blossom-colored sort, found by Dr. Frank Worthington near Chillicothe, and named for the discoverer.

Magazine  (May 1849)  Page(s) 77.  
 
Rosa Multiflora...Elegans - Blush and white, small, double, and of a compact shape.

Magazine  (1848)  Page(s) 226.  
 
Charles Wyllys Elliot. Climbing Roses: Hardy. Multiflora (Worthington’s): Deep rose.

Book  (1848)  Page(s) Vol. II, p. 100.  
 
Multiflora. Elegans; flowers reddish rose, small and full.

Magazine  (1848)  Page(s) 956.  
 
Cincinnati Horticultural Society. June 15.
Mr. Buchanan presented for examination, specimens of a beautiful double Multiflora rose, native of Ohio, which was originally discovered on the banks of the Scioto river, by Mrs. Governor Worthington, of Chillicothe, and by her introduced to the notice of amateurs. Mr. B. in presenting these specimens, requested that it be named the "Worthington Rose:"

Specimens of the thornless single Multiflora, of the thorny do. and of the semi-double do. were laid on the table by Mr. B. for comparison.