Magazine  (Aug 1865)  Page(s) 256.  
 
N.Y. Rose and Strawberry Show....Mr. Burgess, who carried off the first prize for the best collection, exhibited two seedlings, one a Hybrid Perpetual of superb form, and having a much darker velvety hue than General Jaqueminot, and the other a Prairie, called "Abraham Lincoln.We understood the name of the H. P. seedling Rose is G. S. Burgess, but unfortunately some wag, who attended the exhibition, removed the proper name and placed on it a 'substitute,' in the form of" Bob Demmins," which, by the way, was not recognized by Mr. Burgess till the close of the exhibition." ...