Der Rosenbogen (2025)  Page(s) No. III, back cover.  Includes photo(s).
 
'Putbusser Fürstenrose'
Syn.: 'Amber Bay' ...

Pernet-Ducher (1938)  Includes photo(s).
 
REINE ASTRID
Rouge capucine à l’intérieur des pétales, jaune d’or à l'extérieur, cette variété est absolument unique. Très florifère, donnant des roses très pleines, de forme parfaite, elle a un bouton magnifique.
Très bonne rose, coloris intense, qui en fait une variété de premier ordre. Très remontante, bien parfumée, Grande Médaille d'Honneur aux Floralies de JAMBES-NAMUR (Belgique).
Cette variété fut remise officiellement à Monsieur le Consul de Belgique à Lyon, le 25 septembre 1936, à l’occasion de la Foire d'Automne.
Prix de la Société des «Amis des Roses», Concours de la Plus Belle Rose de France, LYON 1937.
Certificat. Médaille d'Or Exposition semis inédits S. L. d'Hort. à Lyon. (Voir couverture).

Star Roses Website / catalog (1937)  Page(s) 6.  
 
FEU PERNET-DUCHER H. T. (C. Mallerin, 1934). Plant Patent No. 103. Gold Medal, 1935, Barcelona, Spain and Lyon, France. Also scored 88 points at International Test-Garden, Portland, Ore. Mme. Pernet-Ducher gave this Rose the highest possible recommendation when she selected it as the choicest of all the new Roses in Europe to be named in memory of her famous husband, Pernet-Ducher. This is one of the most beautiful Roses we have ever seen. Creamy buds, heavily marked with carmine, slowly open to spiral flowers of rich yellow, growing lighter toward the edges, with the edges lightly flushed with pink. The autumn flowers are much darker, being a rich golden yellow shading lighter at the edges, occasional flowers having a decided pink tinge. The outside or first petals are sometimes almost pure white, forming a chaste covering for the glorious expanding bloom. Although fully double with 80 to 100 tissue-like petals, it usually opens to a perfectly formed Rose. Tall, bushy plants bloom continuously from June until frost, with the heaviest bloom and most beautiful flowers in early autumn. Delightfully fragrant.

Susan Irvine's Rose Gardens (1997)  Page(s) 216.  
 
....I came upon ‘Mrs. Philip Russell‘ bred in 1927 from ‘Hadley’ and ‘Red Letter Day’ and described as “semi-double dark red, shaded black, pillar or large bush”. 

Saturday Journal (8 Dec 1923)  Page(s) 20.  
 
I have had a few good flowers from Midnight Sun, a dark crimson single that was supposed to be better than Red Letter Day, but so far it has not grown well with me, and other plants I have seen have not shown healthy vigorous growth. I also seem to produce single flowers on the stems, and this does not allow it to make the display that a decorative rose should. Its colour is grand, but it will have to improve, and prove itself a good doer before it can compare with Red Letter Day, K. of K., and Hawlmark Crimson.

Saturday Journal (8 Dec 1923)  Page(s) 20.  
 
K. of K. has been in full flower during the past week, and the flowers have been very brilliant in colour, and although sometimes it is not easy to distinguish it from Red Letter Day there is a lot of difference at present, Red Letter Day much darker in colour. I have had a few good flowers from Midnight Sun, a dark crimson single that was supposed to be better than Red Letter Day, but so far it has not grown well with me, and other plants I have seen have not shown healthy vigorous growth. I also seem to produce single flowers on the stems, and this does not allow it to make the display that a decorative rose should. Its colour is grand, but it will have to improve, and prove itself a good doer before it can compare with Red Letter Day, K. of K., and Hawlmark Crimson.

Saturday Journal (8 Dec 1923)  Page(s) 20.  
 
K. of K. has been in full flower during the past week, and the flowers have been very brilliant in colour, and although sometimes it is not easy to distinguish it from Red Letter Day there is a lot of difference at present, Red Letter Day much darker in colour. I have had a few good flowers from Midnight Sun, a dark crimson single that was supposed to be better than Red Letter Day, but so far it has not grown well with me, and other plants I have seen have not shown healthy vigorous growth. I also seem to produce single flowers on the stems, and this does not allow it to make the display that a decorative rose should. Its colour is grand, but it will have to improve, and prove itself a good doer before it can compare with Red Letter Day, K. of K., and Hawlmark Crimson.

Bertrand H. Farr, Wyomissing, Pennsylvania (1909)  Page(s) 34.  
 
Japanese Peonies.
We have retained the Japanese names, with their translation, followed by the American names which have been given to this set by the "Peony Society of the American Florists".
Magome-Shiro (Pure white) Crystal Queen. Pure white. $2.00 each.

Peonies: Single and Japanese in the Illinois Trial Garden (1938)  Page(s) 125.  
 
Japanese Peonies (albiflora)
Crown of Thorns (Hollis, 1907) 6.0 (47)
Medium size, bright aster purple, midseason. Staminodes oblanceolate, dark pink. Carpels smooth, tips white; disk lacking. Plant medium size, spreading.

Peonies: Single and Japanese in the Illinois Trial Garden (1938)  Page(s) 106.  
 
Single Peonies (albiflora)
Corinne (Auten, 1926) (2)
Medium size, blush pink, midseason. Carpels hairy, with dark pink tipsl disk distinct, light pink. Plant large, compact; flowers numerous and showing well above the foliage.