Book  (Apr 1999)  Page(s) 559.  
 
Sea Foam Bracteata. William Paul 1919

Book  (1978)  Page(s) 45.  
 
Arthur Paul is reported to have said that 'Mermaid' was one of about a dozen seedlings from R. bracteata, pollinated by a double yellow Tea Rose. One of its sisters was introduced in 1919 as 'Sea Foam', but had a short lease of life, and that name was used again for a different rose in 1964.

Book  (1954)  Page(s) 90.  
 
This beautiful pillar rose, introduced in 1918, was created by W. Paul by crossing R. bracteata with an unknown yellow Tea Rose. Mermaid is not dependably hardy in the North, but the freedom with which it produces its large, single, pale sulphur-yellow flowers and the attractive foliage make it a very desirable rose and worthy of any protection it may require in the colder parts of our country. With its many desirable attributes, including fertility, it seems strange that there are but few progeny of Mermaid worthy of mention, and these are much inferior to the parent. SEA FOAM (Paul, 1919) bears small, double, white flowers and partakes more of its Polyantha parent than it does of Mermaid. LEIPSIG (Kordes, 1939) is the result of crossing Eva with Mermaid, but the influence of the latter is again very slight. Apparently the characters of Mermaid are suppressed by those of the variety with which it is crossed, as Leipzig is a 3- to 4-foot shrub rose that bears semidouble, orange-scarlet blossoms in clusters and is recurrent in its bloom.

Magazine  (Apr 1938)  Page(s) 12.  
 
Rosa Sea Foam. Hort. W. Paul and Son 1920. H. Bract. Hauteur : 1 m. 50. Feuillage vert brillant. Fleurs blanches, doubles, en mai-juin

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 655.  
 
Sea Foam (hybrid bracteata) W. Paul 1919; milk-white, shaded cream, small, double, continuous bloom, growth 6/10.

Magazine  (Jun 1920)  Page(s) 139.  
 
Concours des Roses nouvelles (Bagatelle 1920) ... Il y aura également, l'année prochaine, un nouvel hybride de R. bracteata « SEA FOAM », de William Paul, blanc légèrement crème.

Book  (1920)  Page(s) 46.  
 
Editor,  Rose Mermaid.
Mr. A. Paul very kindly gave me a few. notes of the history of this handsome addition to the single flowered Roses [Mermaid].  This variety was obtained from a species that has hitherto been seldom hybridised, flowers of Rosa bracteata (the single white Macartney Rose) having been fertilised with the pollen of a double yellow Tea Rose. He told me that about a dozen seedlings were obtained, most of which produced single pale yellow flowers which varied in size and regularity of petals, although two or three of the progeny gave double blossoms...
...The double flowered seedlings which resulted from the same cross were found to produce milk-white blossoms of good size and substance, opening well, together with handsome bronzy foliage, and the flowers are also produced over a longer period than those of Rosa bracteata. The best of them has been propagated and placed in commerce under the name of "Seafoam," a handsome variety with small double milk-white flowers, very striking, which received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society when exhibited last summer.

Magazine  (1919)  Page(s) 40.  
 
Rose Sea Foam. — This Rose is a seedling from Rosa bracteata. It bears its double, full blooms in bracteate clusters on stout growths furnished with deep green, neat, shining foliage. The flowers are slightly scented and the petals curve prettily at the margins. Shown by Messrs. Wm. Paul and Son.