Magazine  (Sep 2020)  Page(s) 23. Vol 42, No. 3.  Includes photo(s).
 
Penny McKinlay.  Riethmuller Roses in the Toowoomba Region. 
Esmeralda (1957) is a pure joy, packed with double pink trusses. My Esmeralda is planted on the corner of my garden where everyone walks into my nursery, and I sell heaps when it is in full flower. I sold one last year to Laurie Webster, who lives outside Toowoomba, and was so impressed she sent me photos and a letter. “I’m pretty sure I only planted this rose last summer and she hasn’t been pruned as yet. She has 15 canes from the ground and each one is weighed down with 100 or more roses. I cut one cluster so I could count the roses, and that cluster had 109 roses on it. It is such a feature in my garden so thank you for recommending it to me."

Book  (2012)  Includes photo(s).
 
p23. The nurseryman Bruce Treloar....may have discovered 'Esmeralda' and a similar one to 'Esmeralda' that came with the property.

p47 Decades later in Toowoomba she (Elsie Bischof] told Dawn Eldridge, who had obtained 'Esmeralda' from a friend.....

p48 At least seven Riethmuller roses .... and Esmeralda' disappeared from view, in most cases never to be seen again.

p56 'Esmeralda' is similar to 'Spring Song' but with more magenta, rather less double flowers and dark, almost unlined leaves. The scent is a rich combination of multiflora and damask. Some gardeners believe plants grown in Queensland as 'Esmeralda' are really Lambert's original 'Gartendirektor Otto Linne'. If so, they will have lighter green leaves and no damask component of their scent.

p69 Photo. 'Esmeralda' identified by its dark leaves, on the Darling Downs.

Magazine  (2012)  Page(s) 39. Vol 34, No. 1.  Includes photo(s).
 
Eric Timewell: Riethmuller's 'Esmeralda' ........

Magazine  (2012)  Page(s) Vol 34, No. 2.  
 
p41 Eric Timewell. Frank Riethmuller’s Niece Elsie:
Most [roses] survived because Elsie took them to Toowoomba….At this point it became all too easy for her to leave behind the humiliation of those roses dedicated to women. At least seven Riethmuller roses of all sorts ‘Esmeralda’ and…. disappeared from view, in most cases never to be seen again.

p42. ibid. ‘Alma’ was actually named for a racehorse, but Elsie may have believed it had been dedicated to a woman of that name. The same may have been true of ‘Esmeralda’

Magazine  (2002)  Page(s) 61. Vol 24, No. 2.  
 
Peter Secombe. Co-ordinator. There have been very fine blooms on Riethmuller roses: the polyanthas Esmeralda and.....

Magazine  (2001)  Page(s) 6. Vol 23, No. 2.  
 
Patricia Davidson, Darling Downs. Another group I’ve had success with are the Reithmuller roses Reithmuller was from Toowoomba and a relative of his here is trying to get people on the Downs interested. From cuttings, I’ve grown the following: Large trusses of small very double flowers. Esmeralda and .....

Book  (1999)  Page(s) 36.  Includes photo(s).
 
Esmerelda 1957. Gartendirektor Otto Linne cross. Polyantha bush rose. Cupped, semi-double, fragrant, deep rose pink flowers flecked white, in clusters, fully recurrent. Light to mid green foliage, small leaflets. Arching growth. Flower: 25 petals. 40mm 5 to 20. Bush 1m x 1m.

Book  (1999)  Page(s) 32.  
 
Esmeralda (Polyantha). Riethmuller Australia, 1957. Polyantha, Deep pink. [available from] Golden Vale.

Website/Catalog  (1998)  Page(s) 8.  
 
Esmeralda. Polyantha 1957. Australia. Double. Fragrant. Recurrent. 0.8m x 0.8m dark pink.

Magazine  (1997)  Page(s) 16. Vol 19, No. 1.  
 
Philip Sutherland, Golden Vale Nursery, Benalla, Vic:
I would like to publicly thank the families of Frank Riethmuller and Dick Alderton respectively for their assistance with the continued conservation of their relatives roses. Frank Riethmuller’s two polyanthas from the breeding of Gartendirektor Otto Linne - Snow Spray (white) and Esmeralda (pink) - are now under production. ........... It makes me wonder what other roses currently presumed extinct may be lurking in the gardens of south-east Queensland.