I don't own Roy Shepherd's History of the Rose, but there is an online extract from his book (1954 edition, pp.42-47) in which he credits Prince as breeder of 'Seraphine':

Rosa setigera Michaux — Prairie Rose.
...William Prince first considered the possibility that this species might be of value as a parent in creating a race of climbers better adapted to North American conditions than those then known. In 1825, he collected several plants from the wild, and planted them in his garden at Flushing, N.Y. The first hybridizing experiments with this rose were made in this garden by William Prince and his son, William Robert Prince. Since then, Samuel and John Feast of Baltimore, Joshua Pierce of Washington, Dr. Walter Van Fleet of Glenn Dale, Maryland, M. H. Horvath of Mentor, Ohio, and others have continued the work.

...In the following list are a few of the hybrids that aroused interest during the middle of the nineteenth century. Their present value is mostly sentimental as they have long since been superseded by more desirable climbers:
Seraphine (Prince, 1840) — Very double, delicate pink with deeper pink centers.

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