(1861)  
 
PRESIDENT.....Something in the way of Tea "Adam," it differs sufficiently from it; the salmon and fawn colours, so much sought after in the Tea-scented Roses, largely predominating in the expanded flower. It is also hardier in constitution than "Adam," and, consequently, better as an out-door Rose..... The Rose Annual 1861-62, William Paul.

(1880)  
 
MADAME LAMBARD.
(TEA-SCENTED.)
In this plate our artist, Mr. W. H. Fitch, has surpassed himself, so faithful is the delineation and so natural the grouping. Those who saw an original drawing of this lovely Rose exhibited by Mr. Fitch at one of the Royal Horticultural Society's Meetings at South Kensington this year, will not readily forget it.
Madame Lambard was introduced in the autumn of 1877, by M. Lacharme, of Lyons, who has given us as many good Roses and fewer bad ones than any of the French raisers.
The flowers are salmon-pink, shaded with rose, large, full, and globular, perfect in shape and composed of fine stout rounded petals. The colours are similar to, but stronger than those of Souvenir de Madame Pernet; to describe it accurately in reference to others we may say that it stands about midway between Catherine Mermet and Comtesse de Nadaillac. The growth is vigorous. When grown under glass this is, we think, the best novelty of its year. And it is not one that gives a few passing flowers and then rests; on the contrary, the plants here gave a good succession of flowers from June to November. But it must not be inferred that this is merely an in-door Rose; it is fairly hardy, and where other Tea-scented Roses grow out of doors this will grow either as a dwarf, a standard, or a wall Rose.

(1861)  
 
PRESIDENT
(Tea-scented)
The entire stock of this beautiful Rose is at present at the Cheshunt Nurseries, whence it will be sold in April 1860. The present proprietors cannot claim the honour of originating it, having bought the stock. Something in the way of Tea "Adam," it differs sufficiently from it; the salmon and fawn colours, so much sought after in the Tea-scented Roses, largely predominating in the expanded flower. It is also hardier in constitution than "Adam," and, consequently, better as an out-door Rose. It blooms freely, and is very sweet. In the forcing house of the Cheshunt Nurseries, where nearly 400 varieties are cultivated, the President and Madame William were the most conspicuous and best among the Tea-scented Roses last spring.

from The Rose Annual 1861-62, William Paul.