Gardener’s Monthly (November, 1880) pp. 322-325
CROSS-FERTILIZING AND RAISING ROSES FROM SEED IN ENGLAND
BY T. T. LAXTON, BEDFORD, ENG.
In 1869 I raised H.P.'s Mrs. Laxton, probably from Mme. Victor Verdier, Charles Darwin from Madame Julie Daran, this being the dark H.P., Rose of Bourbon blood par excellence, of which I sowed the seed in that year, and Emily Laxton perhaps from Abet Grande.