Website/Catalog  (13 Jan 2019)  
 
“Dettman’s Polyantha”. (study name). Small, semi-double. Purply pink, white eye. 1m. Could this be the previously lost 1931 polyantha ‘Dainty Dawn’ from George Knight?

Article (misc)  (2008)  Page(s) Unpublished.  
 
Dainty Dawn Pol mp 1931 Bred S/Dbl. Amaura Fonseca x Annchen Muller Knight G.

Article (misc)  (2008)  Page(s) Unpublished.  
 
Dainty Dawn Pol mp 1931 Bred S/Dbl. Amaura Fonseca x Annchen Muller Knight G.

Book  (1999)  Page(s) 31.  
 
‘Dainty Dawn’ – 1931. C. R. Knight. Polyantha Bush rose, semi-double, fragrant, cerise pink to mauve flowers. No longer available.

Newsletter  (1995)  Page(s) 17. Vol 4, No. 1.  
 
‘Dainty Dawn’. Poly. 1931 Knight.

Website/Catalog  (1938)  Page(s) 45.  
 
‘Dainty Dawn’. Color variable – cerise-pink, at times paler; while the young buds are quite purple in color. As the flowers expand they are generally cerise-pink, sometimes mauve-pink. it is very free flowering, blooming for the greater part of the year. It is one of the best perfumed in the Polyantha class.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 195.  
 
Daqwn, Dainty (polyantha) Knight 1931; Am. Fonseca X Aenn. Müller; cherry-pink to mallow-pink, semi-double, cup form, lasting, cluster-flowered, fragrance 7/10, floriferous with interruptions, growth 4/10, short.

Book  (1932)  
 
New Roses of the World. Dainty Dawn. D. Poly. (G.Knight & Sons 1931) Amaury Fonseca x AEnnchen Muller. Flower semi-double, cupped, lasting, extremely fragrant, cerise pink to mauve, in cluster. Foliage bronze-green. Growth moderate; profuse intermittent bloomer.

Book  (1931)  Page(s) 62.  
 
Editor [T. A. Stewart] Roses of Australia. ‘Dainty Dawn’ 1931. (Poly), Knight, NSW. Colour variable; cerise pink, at times paler, while young buds are purple in colour. Free flowering, blooming for greater part of the year. One of the best perfumed of the Polyantha class.