Proceedings of the American Pomological Society, 23: 48-54 (1891)
Mr. Strong:
...I mean the Waban rose. The facts were told to me by Mr. Montgomery, who was the originator of the rose. It is a sport from the Catharine Mermet rose. Mr. Montgomery told me that the plant which had been planted in their conservatory, after two or three years had become an old stunted plant and they were about to throw it away, until he noticed one day that it had produced a large deeper colored rose than the normal type, and it had been in such a state of neglect that he ascribed the change in color to the condition—environment. He preserved the shoots of that rose, noticing it as so marked. He propagated the rose, and it has retained its characteristics.

Proc. Soc. of American Florists, Volumes 7: 84-99 (1891)
A Rose grower of New Jersey secured a sport from Catherine Mermet Rose, identical, he says, with Montgomery's Waban, and he proposed giving his sport the name Hugh Waban, to distinguish it from the Massachusetts plant; but before doing so he had the laudable courtesy to submit the question to this committee. We advised him of the impropriety of using the name he proposed, and that he should adopt for his plant the first published name, Waban, and as a precedent quoted to him the case of the Bride Rose, which originated at two different places at the same time. Nor was this a solitary case. In acknowledging our letter, he replied: "I wish to thank you for your explicit and carefully considered verdict regarding my sport from the Mermet. . . . Your recommendation will be followed out as far as practicable. My chief concern had been to avoid imposing or infringing upon the originators of the rose Waban."