Book  (1988)  Page(s) 39.  
 
He announced to the world in 1934 that Rochester was a new type of rose called a floribunda.

Book  (1985)  Page(s) 73-74.  
 
'Rochester' has perhaps never received the credit due to it. It was a cross between the pink and white Polyantha, 'Echo', and a yellow Hybrid Tea, 'Rev. F. Page Roberts'. The result was a buff double rose, flowering in clusters, and classified at that time as a Hybrid Polyantha... The name came from a town some twenty-five miles west of Newark [New York, where Jackson & Perkins had a facility.]

Book  (1958)  Page(s) 327.  
 
Rochester. Floribunda. (Nicolas, int. J&P, '34.) Echo X Rev. F. Page-Roberts. Medium size, dbl., fragrant, buff, reverse orange-carmine. Fol. leathery. Vig., bushy. (21) Pl. Pat. 131 (expired).

Book  (1947)  Page(s) 230.  
 
Although classed as a Hybrid Tea rose, ROCHESTER (Nicolas; int. J. & P., 1934), has many of the qualities of the newer Polyanthas. Raised by Dr. Nicolas from Rev. F. Page-Roberts, Rochester has a better blooming habit and flowers that are notably fine

Book  (1941)  Page(s) 79.  
 
John Poulsen, NZ.  South Island Roses
Rochester has also been out-standing, and the way it stood up to the heat was surprising.

Website/Catalog  (1936)  Page(s) 43.  
 
New Roses 1936.  Rochester (HT. J. H. Nicolas 1934) Seedling of 'Rev. F. Page Roberts' and 'Echo'. Colour of the bud is like Roberts, with more pronounced carmine markings on the reverse of the petals, and more blush in the open flower. Foliage heavy and disease resistant, and vigorous growth. 5/- each.
First blooms are paler than 'Rev. F. Page Roberts'. Promising.
 

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 615.  
 
Rochester (hybrid lutea) Nicolas 1934; Echo X Revr. F. Page-Roberts; gold-orange-yellow to chrome-yellow, reverse yellowish pink, striped carmine, large, double, globular, lasting, cluster-flowered, fragrance 5/10, floriferous, continuous bloom, strong stems, growth 6/10, well-branched, bushy, hardy.

Book  (1935)  Page(s) 47.  
 
R. Marion Hatton.  New Roses in America. 
The Polyantha family is becoming so much involved that a mere Rose lover cannot keep them straight. We have a couple of new Roses this year which seem to me to belong in the class with Gruss an Aachen. Rochester (Nicolas) is a cross of Echo and Rev. F. Page Roberts; the plant is Echo's, but the flowers are Page Roberts', just about the same size, and many more of them than we get on that lovely hybrid tea, but they come in clusters.

Magazine  (1935)  Page(s) 50.  
 
The Gold Medal Certificate of The American Rose Society was awarded to J. H. Nicolas of the Jackson & Perkins Company, Newark, N. Y., for his Hybrid Tea - Polyantha, Rochester.