(1985)  Page(s) 109.  
 
The first rose [Pedro Dot] introduced was Francisco Curbera, in 1923; it was salmon pink and yellow...

(1985)  Page(s) 116.  
 
[Mathias, the elder] became interested in breeding with a wild rose from China... a rose with small, dainty leaves and clouds of little pink flowers, called R. multibracteata. He knew, for all rose breeders know it, that for such a project one should allow at least twenty years; in fact it was twenty-three years before his son reaped the reward of that initiative... 'Garnette' was a marvellous discovery for Mathias Tantau, a red rose with hard petals; it came out in Germany in 1947, and in 1951 was introduced by the Jackson & Perkins Co. in America. A most successful cut flower on account of its durability... Quite a cult arose around 'Garnette'... the growers of cut roses planted glasshouses full of it, and began to discover mutations, of which 'Pink Garnette', from Boerner in 1951, and 'Carol Amling', from Amling & Beltran in 1953, were fairly similar in deep pink. Some nurseries began to offer 'Garnette Roses' in othe rcolours, but apart from having small flowers, most of these had little affinity to the original...

(1985)  Page(s) 12.  
 
Monsieur Nérard named 'Géant des Batailles' and entrusted Guillot with the introduction of it in 1846... within two years [William Paul called it] 'a broad step in the right direction' and 'a beautiful rose'...

(1985)  Page(s) 104.  
 
Independence was the first rose of Floribunda or Hybrid Tea type in those flaming orange scarlet colours which set rose gardens ablaze in the 1950s and 1960s, much to the regret of the fastidious... it was so different from any predecessor that the German name was 'Kordes' Sondermeldung', or 'Special Announcement'.

(1985)  Page(s) 156.  
 
One of [Cocker's] successes was 'Glenfiddich' in 1976, named after Alec's favourite whisky.

(1985)  Page(s) 164.  
 
Two seedlings from that first year's [1962] work were to give me some fine roses in the future; one was 'Anne Elizabeth' x 'Allgold'; the other 'Orange Sensation' x 'Allgold'. They were never introduced, because they were not in their own right marketable varieties. I called them 'half-way houses'. The influence of both is well marked in our breeding to this day.

(1985)  Page(s) 126.  
 
Golden State was Francis Meilland's first successful variety [it] was introduced in America by the Conard-Pyle Company in 1937... [the name] tied the yellow rose to the International Exhibition in San Francisco...

(1985)  Page(s) 135.  
 
Rise 'n' Shine is one of the best miniatures

(1985)  Page(s) 31.  
 
Grace Darling
... a cream and pink Hybrid Tea, which lacked the size required for exhibition, but grew beautifully. It was in retrospect recognized as one of the earliest 'garden roses'.

(1985)  Page(s) 121, 127.  
 
Grand'mere Jenny [Antoine Meilland's mother who was named] Jeanne, always kept her family clean, fed, and well brought up on the minimum of money and in spite of the disability of having lost a hand. She had instead an iron hook.
p. 127: Grand'mère Jenny died in 1943