"The last entry [to the Panama-California Rose Contest at Balboa Park, San Diego] came somewhat belated from Madison, New Jersey, from the Brant-Hentz Flower Co., with the explanation that a temperature of 25 below had made an earlier shipment impossible. Among these last plants was the original rose bush which has been the mother of over 5,000 others." From periodical California Garden, vol. 3, 1912, p. 7. This "original rose bush" can only have been that of 'Madison'; Brant-Hentz had no other roses original with them, certainly none which were called upon to provide "over 5,000 others."