Website/Catalog  (Oct 1999)  Page(s) 46.  Includes photo(s).
 
Astra Desmond (Rambler) A vigorous well foliated climber. Large clusters of double white flowers produced in great profusion. Origin unknown.

Book  (Apr 1999)  Page(s) 355.  
 
White Flight Listed as White Mrs . Flight ( Mult ) . 
White Mrs. Flight syn. 'White Flight Rockford , 1916 Sport of Mrs . F . W . Flight ' ( Mult )

Book  (Sep 1996)  Page(s) 164.  
 
....is an outstanding white rambler which my nursery has been guilty for a number of years of listing erroneously as 'White Flight', and which is clearly a sport from 'Mrs. F. W. Flight'. It appears that when first introduced by Hilliers of Winchester in the 1950s it was named 'Astra Desmond' and it has been distributed since under both names.

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 638.  
 
White Mrs. Flight' HMult. (OGR) w. 1916. ('White Flight'). 'Mrs. F. W. Flight' sport. T. Rockford. Flowers pure white.

Book  (1991)  Page(s) 106.  
 
Our own choice of a white rambling rose would be ' Astra Desmond ' which seems to be scarcely known . It is a vigorous rose , growing up to 5m ( 17ft ) and capable of training up an apple tree or across a pergola . Its virtue is that its flowers....

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 87.  Includes photo(s).
 
A small-flowered rambler of unknown origin, about 1900, rescued from oblivion by Humphrey Brooke at Claydon, and put on to the market by Peter Beales. Description.

Book  (1986)  Page(s) 143.  Includes photo(s).
 
White Flight (1923). Light green foliage and a tall-growing healthy plant. Semi-double medium-sized flowers that are pure white and appear in large trusses.

Website/Catalog  (1985)  Page(s) 49.  
 

White Flight (Rambler). A rose of obscure origin.....

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 40.  
 
White Flight (Rambler, multiflora type)  A rose of obscure origin. Large trusses of semi-single pure white flowers amid light green foliage. c.1900. (S) 8 x 6’.

Magazine  (19 Nov 1981)  
 
Humphrey Brooke: A Rose Prophecy Fulfilled, The Resurgence of the Hybrid Perpetual.
The Sangerhausen authorities only gave budwood for exchange, and Lime Kiln had only 12 novelties to promise in return, and there were so many other desirable varieties in the rosarium: two snow white climbers ....and White Flight