Newsletter  (2021)  Page(s) Winter issue, p. 19.  
 
[From "Dad and his Roses", by Mary Buck, Spring/Fall 2008, pp. 14-21]
Prairie Princess – In ‘Prairie Princess,” Dad found he had an excellent parent. It’s in the background of nearly thirty of his named plants or some of the unnamed seedlings waiting to be named. It has been used extensively by the Canadian hybridizers in the Parkland and Explorer series. Also, Alan Meilland took budwood of it back to France in the 1970’s and it is a double grandparent of “Carefree Wonder.” Canada also found another use for it. They made it a climber.

Article (magazine)  (2010)  Page(s) 1781.  
 
Prairie Princess, Earth-Kind Brigade, Shrub, 1972, Griffith Buck, Ploidy 4x..

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 466.  
 
Prairie Princess Shrub, orange-pink, 1972, 'Carrousel' x ('Morning Stars' x 'Suzanne'); Buck. Description.

Book  (1972)  Page(s) 108.  
 
Griffith J. Buck. Roses Are Shrubs?
'Prairie Princess'. Although this is not one of the roses named this year, it is being released with the ones described in this paper. It has been a thoroughly satisfactory rose here, even though there is a tendency to outgrow the space allotted to it. Mrs. Dorothy Stemler and Dr. Waiter Lammerts provide the best description of it:

"Walter Lammerts has a rose you sent him as a plant in 1967 that he is very enthusiastic about. I went to his garden yesterday and saw it. I agree with him. It has become a large Shrub, but blooms like a Floribunda. The plant is about 4 1/2 feet in diameter and around 5 feet tall. It blooms in clusters and the buds are well shaped. WaIter has found it very disease resistant at a time other roses in his garden are blackspotting badly. The color is a clear, bright pink. My daughter says the color is about like that of 'Bewitched'." - Mrs. Stemler.

"It is now about 6 1/2 feet high and never gets more than about 7 - 8 feet. It's amazing it should grow so tall in a climate with such a short season as Iowa. On relooking I do find a few leaves with blackspot, but very few, and they soon drop off leaving it completely clean: These few are at the base of the plant. It is mildew proof also here." - Dr. Lammerts.

It can be kept within bounds by pruning to 18 inches each spring.
Such drastic treatment will resuIt in a mounded plant 4 feet high and spreading about 5 feet.