Gardeners Chronicle 25: 317 (Oct 21, 1899)
TEA-SCENTED ROSES.—In the Gardeners' Chronicle of October 7, p. 275, we noticed the following remarks on Tea-scented Roses:—"The two most conspicuous are Empress Alexandra of Russia and White Maman Cochet. The former is one of those dark-coloured Teas which some people admire, but which I, for one, think spoil the chaste and delicate beauty of the stand in which it appears. I think one of the great charms of the Tea-Rose is its delicacy and refinement, and these very highly-coloured flowers greatly interfere with that characteristic." We thought by the introduction of this exquisite Rose with its distinct and beautiful colour of red and orange, we were offering to the public an original long sought-for desideratum; and that others thought so too was made manifest by the Award of Merit it obtained from the Royal Horticultural Society, and the large sale it met with. But does the presence of a dark beauty "greatly interfere" with the "delicacy and refinement" of her fairer sisters? We think it will be said by some—nay, rather it tends to heighten and adorn them. Be that as it may, we venture to predict that we shall now shortly acquire a host of high-coloured Tea-scented Roses which many lovers of this flower have long sighed for, but sighed for in vain. Wm. Paul & Son, Waltham Cross.