(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 appearance of the plant and its foliage, is particularly neat; it grows very freely, and flowers beautifully, Blossoms large, and well colored, borne on graceful stems, with a singular fragrance, like that of the common Tea rose and the China rose combined. It has been named, in compliment to an amateur of the city, Kurtz's Rose, or Rosa Thea, var: Kurtzii.

(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
 

(1862)  Page(s) 188.  
 
The Queen of the Prairies and the Baltimore Belle are two fine varieties of the Michigan rose. They are remarkable for the profusion of their flowers and the rapidity of their growth, shoots of twenty feet in length in a single year being not uncommon. The blossoms of the Queen of the Prairies are a deep pink with a white stripe in the centre of each petal, and so very double that they look like large pouting buds, rather than full-grown roses....

(1823)  Page(s) 399.  
 
On Tuesday, June 10th, before the Horticultural Inspection Committee, in New York, were exhibited....a fine plant in bloom of White Moss Rose, supposed to be the first that has flowered in this country.