(1914)  
 
"...The Burbank rose, like the Burbank potatos, owes its origin to the discovery of a seed-pod on a plant that rarely produces seed. The plant in the present instance was a Bourbon rose...known as Hermosa. This rose very rarely bears seed, even in California, but on one occasion I discovered half a dozen seed-pods on a plant that did not differ otherwise in any obvious way from its companion plants. I carefully treasured these seeds, and from the plants that they grew are descended not only the Burbank rose, but also the Santa Rosa, and a number of others. With the fact that the Burbank rose was a product of seeds thus accidentally garnered, however, the analogy with the Burbank potato ceases. For...the Burbank rose was developed only after numerous hybridizing experiments in which new blood was introduced, and new qualities were brought into the combination. Among other roses, the strains of which were mingled with those of the offspring of the Hermosa to produce the Burbank, was the Bon Silene. And there were at least three or four others that are similarly to be credited, although the exact pedigrees of all of them are not matter of record....The new Burbank rose and its sister plant, the Santa Rosa, present further object lessons in the value of cross-fertilization, in that they are not only much more beautiful than the original Hermosa...but that they also have qualities of hardiness and of productivity that are the token of their mixed heritage."

(1914)  Page(s) 5.  
 
"...The Burbank rose, like the Burbank potatos, owes its origin to the discovery of a seed-pod on a plant that rarely produces seed. The plant in the present instance was a Bourbon rose...known as Hermosa. This rose very rarely bears seed, even in California, but on one occasion I discovered half a dozen seed-pods on a plant that did not differ otherwise in any obvious way from its companion plants. I carefully treasured these seeds, and from the plants that they grew are descended not only the Burbank rose, but also the Santa Rosa, and a number of others.

(1914)  Page(s) 5.  
 
"...The Burbank rose, like the Burbank potatos, owes its origin to the discovery of a seed-pod on a plant that rarely produces seed. The plant in the present instance was a Bourbon rose...known as Hermosa. This rose very rarely bears seed, even in California, but on one occasion I discovered half a dozen seed-pods on a plant that did not differ otherwise in any obvious way from its companion plants. I carefully treasured these seeds, and from the plants that they grew are descended not only the Burbank rose, but also the Santa Rosa, and a number of others. With the fact that the Burbank rose was a product of seeds thus accidentally garnered, however, the analogy with the Burbank potato ceases. For...the Burbank rose was developed only after numerous hybridizing experiments in which new blood was introduced, and new qualities were brought into the combination. Among other roses, the strains of which were mingled with those of the offspring of the Hermosa to produce the Burbank, was the Bon Silene. And there were at least three or four others that are similarly to be credited, although the exact pedigrees of all of them are not matter of record....The new Burbank rose and its sister plant, the Santa Rosa, present further object lessons in the value of cross-fertilization, in that they are not only much more beautiful than the original Hermosa...but that they also have qualities of hardiness and of productivity that are the token of their mixed heritage."