Booklet  (2022)  Page(s) 64-65.  Includes photo(s).
 
"Not Souvenir d'un Ami"

Magazine  (Dec 2020)  Page(s) 29. Vol 42, No. 4.  
 
Billy West.  Some Favourite Fragrant Roses. 
“Nancy Steen’s [not] Souvenir d’un Ami” is another that evokes childhood memories. The scent of this rose transports me back in time to the milk bar in our home town, with its jars of boiled sweets smelling of sugary syrup and fruit essences.

Magazine  (Jun 2020)  Page(s) 24. Vol 42, No. 2.  Includes photo(s).
 
Mystery Teas in Australia
"Not Souvenir d’un Ami”, imported from New Zealand. Very variable in flower colour, from pale buff to apricot to mid-pink to coral and carmine, with a yellow base. The colour varies with the weather and there may be a range of colours on the bush at the same time. Flowers medium to large, semi-double to double. Strong sweet Tea scent with floral and fruity notes: one of the most fragrant Teas. The leaflets turn upwards from the midrib. One of the features that sets this rose apart is the port-wine colour of the undersides of the leaves, that can persist in the mature foliage. Another is the unusual shape of the yellow hips. The growth is tall, upright, angular; with support, it will make a small climber.

Book  (2008)  Page(s) 188.  
 
The rose in commerce in Australia today as the tea 'Souvenir d'un Ami' introduced by Belot-Defougeres, France, 1846 is not the original rose.....The rose now sold here [in Australia] as 'Souvenir d'un Ami' was imported from New Zealand, where it had been found and named by Nancy Steen (Steen 1966). The same rose has been photographed in 2001 in the Huntington collection in California under the name 'Mme. de Tartas'.....[description]

Book  (2006)  Page(s) 84.  
 
'General Tartas' ["Huntington Mme. de Tartas", 'General de Tartas']. Tea. rrr fff 3. Bernede, 1860. Huntington i.d. Blush-pink with deep rose pink, the guard petals rose red; these are large flowers profusely produced on a strong bush. Having grown this for many years and labeled it as it was identified at the Huntington, 'Mme. de Tartas', we are now fairly certain that this is the correct name for this superb garden plant. Both Tartas roses were from the same breeder, released two years apart. In Australia this is grown as 'Souvenir d'un Ami', but there the real 'Mme. de Tartas' we believe is correctly identified.

Article (misc)  (1985)  Page(s) 14.  
 
Mme. de Tartas  36040.  Tea; Bernede, 1859.  MR8: "Large, full, cupped blush pink. Vig, sprawling. Important ancestor of many HT's."  Source: Robert Lindquist Jr., Hemet, CA 6-75.   Bed 32 Row B #  Bed 33 Row C #15

Magazine  (1981)  Page(s) 7. Vol 3, No. 2.  
 
Heather Rumsey.  Tea Roses in our Garden.
Souvenir d'un Ami.  Those blessed with a copy of Nancy Steen's book will recall the huge bush of this which appears in one of the colour plates. I jumped at the offer of a bush when a few plants were grown from budwood supplied by Trevor Griffiths of New Zealand. I have tried to spread it around and hope supplies are now assured as my original bush was destroyed shortly after we sold our previous home. The bush is vigorous, spreading out once it has achieved a height of 5 feet or so. Typical Tea growth and strong flowering stems appear in autumn and early winter. The semi-double flowers are light coppery pink in the centre with darker cerise pink, cupped outer petals. It has more petals than Papa  G. or Madame L. 

Book  (1966)  Page(s) 90.  Includes photo(s).
 
p90 A rose which combines the desirable qualities of sturdy growth, healthy, persistent foliage, lovely flowers, and the habit of blooming almost continuously, certainly merits a prominent position in any garden. Such a one is the old Tea Rose, 'Souvenir d'un Ami', which was bred in 1848 in France by Beluze, who raised the famous Bourbon, 'Souvenir de la Malmaison'. Rivers, describing 'Souvenir d'un Ami', said it would be hard to imagine a more beautiful rose. It was sent to us as a rooted cutting many years ago; it is now a seven-foot shrub, and a real garden treasure. The mature leathery leaves, which show a purple sheen on their undersides, particularly in the autumn, roll under slightly at their edges-these features are characteristic of the rose and are an aid in identification. The smooth young stems are practically thornless, the fat, globose heps being depressed on top, unlike the pear-shaped ones of the China Roses. The large, slightly cupped flowers are quite circular in outline-their colour is a soft rose slightly flushed with salmon, with a deeper tone in the outer petals. In the autumn, the general tone of the rose darkens by several degrees until it matches the rosy-carmine colour of its immediate neighbour, 'Papa Gontier'. The first and last blooms of the season are particularly lovely-after a very hot and dry summer the bush is an absolute picture, with its biggest crop of flowers for the year. Even in the dead of winter 'Souvenir d'un Ami' brightens the garden with its cheerful blooms. Lightly pruned after each burst of flower, mulched with compost or farmyard manure, and well watered, this stalwart Tea Rose astonishes all who see it.