Article (newsletter)  (Jul 2012)  Page(s) 55.  
 
an unknown pink Tea, crossing them into modern Hybrid Teas....the pink Tea x Samba, produced my first rose, named, rather aptly I feel, First Offering, a bushy plant with lovely red flowers of the Tea rose persuasion, but sadly now lost.

Book  (19 Apr 2000)  Page(s) 163.  
 
'First Offering', F, dr, 1975; Description; ((Seedling X ?) X Samba); Viraraghavan, M.S.