Website/Catalog  (9 Dec 2013)  
 
Registered Name: 'Chiquita'
ARS Approved Exhibition Name: Chiquita
LCl, op, 1938, Moore, Ralph S.; flowers orange-yellow to coppery orange and salmon-pink, base yellow, intense fragrance; RULED EXTINCT 1/88
[Sierra Snowstorm × Étoile Luisante]
Introductions: Brooks & Son

Magazine  (1944)  Page(s) 141-143. Vol 5, No. 7.  
 
Everblooming Ramblers. Stephen F. Hamblin, Lexington, Mass.
Chiquita (Moore, 1937) is another California seedling of complex parentage. It was produced by crossing Sierra Snowstorm with Miss Barbara. It is a Rambler with Cécile Brunner flowers of orange tint, quite like Phyllis Bide in effect. It is a strong grower and continuous bloomer in California, but it is tender in cold climates.

Book  (1942)  Page(s) 166.  
 
Proof of the Pudding. 'Chiquita'. Mult. Blush. (Moore 37, PP 41.
Menzies, Calif., declares it is marvelous; plant is a good grower and a continuous bloomer with better form and buds somewhat smaller than 'Cecile Brunner'. At Breeze Hill (1 pl. 2 yr.), it is still only 5 ft tall and produced a few dainty fragrant flowers in June. If it does not do something this year it will be discarded.

Website/Catalog  (1938)  Page(s) 3.  
 
p3.  "Something Entirely New — CHIQUITA (LITTLE GIRL) — the Baby Rose You Have Always Wanted •
CHIQUITA. (Little Girl) Miniature. [Moore, 1937.] (All rights reserved.) Something different in baby Roses—a Rose that flower lovers have wanted for years. One florist, when shown this Rose, exclaimed, "Florists have waited twenty years for that Rose!" In general the type is climbing Cecile Brunner but the form is better and the buds are somewhat smaller. But such a combination of colors! The outside of the petals are deep orange-yellow at the base, passing to orange-copper-pink on the outer edge. The open flower is an entrancing' combination of coppery-orange and salmon-pink with yellow at the base. And such fragrance!—it compares favorably with expensive imported perfumes— dainty, yet intense and penetrating. It is perfect material for corsages—it holds up marvelously well, the colors and fragrance intensifying with age. The plant is of medium climbing habit, the foliage is good and it produces the exquisite little flowers in clusters right through the season from spring to fall. What more could we ask of a Rose. To grow it and know it is to love and cherish it as you do no other Rose. $1.00 each".

p13.  Brooks Select Climbing Roses for 1938.
Chiquita (Little Girl) Miniature. (Moore, 1937) (All rights reserved.) This loveliest of all miniature Roses is described fully on page 3 of this catalog.

p15.  Note.   'Sierra Snowstorm'  is an important step in a line of breeding that has given us some new baby Roses that will, without doubt, turn the eyes of the Rose world toward California. These lovely little miniatures, which combine the shades of yellow, orange, copper and pink, will soon be available in both bush and climbing form, the first of these, a climber of Cecile Brunner type, is being released this season under the name of "Chiquita" (Little Girl).  This exquisite little miniature is described on page 3 of this catalog.