(12 Aug 1899)  Page(s) 31.  
 
Admiral Dewey is also of a very beautiful shade and it is large, but fickle fashion and the retail florists are responsible for the future of any flower, no matter what its qualities may be.

(19 Aug 1899)  Page(s) 84, 92.  
 
p. 84: The list of new plants registered at the secretary's office up to date is as follows:.....November 10, by John H. Taylor, rose Admiral Dewey......
The names Miss Clara Barton and Admiral Dewey as applied to roses, were given each to the productions of two different firms and it is a pleasure to report that in each case deference was given to the parties having registered the name with the Society of American Florists and their right to the exclusive use of the title in question honorably acknowledged by the claimants who had failed to register.

p. 92:  The establishment [of John H. Taylor] now consists ot 75,000 feet of glass under which are cut some of the finest roses which reach the New York market. Here originated the Admiral Dewey rose introduced this year.

(12 Nov 1898)  Page(s) 425.  
 
Boston. The annual chrysanthemum show of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society is now on, favored with the most delightful weather and an unprecedented attendance of the craft from distant points..... John H. Taylor's new pink rose, Admiral Dewey, and J. H. Dunlop's Lady Dorothea are also shown and have received honorable mention.

(19 Nov 1898)  Page(s) 493.  
 
Society of American Florists. 
DEPARTMENT OF PLANT REGISTRATION.
John H. Taylor, Bayside, N. Y., has registered at the secretary's office the new rose, Admiral Dewey, a light pink sport from Mme. Caroline Testout.
Wm. J. Stewart, Sec'y.

(18 Jun 1898)  Page(s) 1373 vol 13, pt 2.  
 
American Florist 13(2): 1373 June 18, 1898
The Yellow Rambler Rose.
Ed. Am. Florist: — In your issue of April 15 I notice the comments of your correspondent "K" on Aglaia, the Yellow Rambler rose. As the originator and introducer of this variety, permit me to state that only strong three-year-old plants give the best results. The stock generally distributed is still too young to permit of a correct estimate by even the most competent grower, but the parent plants in our nurseries prove every year that this rose is truly a fitting companion to the Crimson Rambler, and I am convinced that "K." will modify his opinion with another year's experience.
Trier, Germany. Peter Lambert.
 

(1 Dec 1887)  Page(s) 185.  
 
American Beauty
We some time since wrote our valued correspondent, Jean Sisley, Monplaisir, Lyon, France, for his opinion as to the identity of the roses Am. Beauty, and Mad. Ferd. Jamain, and in reply have received the following:

"I received yesterday your letter of 27th September. Not being able to answer myself your question about American Beauty, and on account of my old age (84) not being able to go far, I sent my son to two of our best rosarians, who came to me- J. M. Gonod and Bonnaire. They both said that for them, what they have received as American Beauty and possessed as Madame Ferdinand Jamain, they are the same variety; and as to your remark that the latter was a weak grower, they said that that must be occasional, either by the influence of the soil, situation, or perhaps the stock on which it is grafted, but that with them they are equally stout growers. Of course, this does not mean that the party who sent out American Beauty deceived the public, because he may be mistaken, thinking that he was propagating a seedling of his."

(16 Aug 1894)  Page(s) 30.  
 
The main points required in a forcing rose under the present conditions are a good constitution and its accompaniments, namely, vigorous and rapid growth, strong upright stem, good substance, rich foliage, and immunity from disease; large flowers borne on single stems, with persistent petals of clean color and no tendency to turn purplish; sufficient doubleness of flower to prevent exposing the center when full blown, but not so double as to interfere with free and rapid development of blooms in midwinter; long and steady season of blooming.
The variety coming nearest to a combination of all these good qualities is the American Beauty, which is undoubtedly the grandest forcing rose ever introduced and has no rival in the market to-day. It has steadily maintained its price better than any other variety and the demand for plants the present season has been greater than ever before. Not everyone succeeds with the Beauty. Its stubbornness has been the cause of many a heartache, and frequently in winter it puzzles those hitherto most successful in its cultivation, rewarding their care and attention with unmarketable blooms and keen disappointment. As one prominent grower has remarked, "It's no trick to grow Beauty until you get the fire on; when the short days come, that’s the test." The American Beauty can doubtless be made better by careful selection of stock. One grower who has been at work on it for some time claims a great advance in intensity of color.

(12 Aug 1911)  Page(s) 106.  
 
The same German gardener [referring to Anthony Cook] called to the attention of George Bancroft that splendid rose which George Field saw, found it could be forced, and which became the 'American Beauty'--still the queen,

(1889)  Page(s) 388. Vol 4.  
 
Mr. Burton proposed a bumper to 'American Beauty, the best rose that has ever been introduced,' coupling it with the firm of George Field & Bro., of Washington, D.C., to whom belongs the credit of discovering its good qualities, and called upon Robert Craig to respond. Mr. Craig did so in his usual happy style, and related among other things, that one morning about four years ago he received a rose from Washington, which was a revelation to him; the flowers were large, of good color, with long stems and deliciously fragrant. The following morning he received letters from John N. May and Ernest Asmus, both of which stated in effect that there was a fine rose at Washington, and asking for a date to be named when it would be convenient to go and see it growing. Nearly everybody in the business is familiar with the subsequent history of the Beauty,

(16 Aug 1894)  Page(s) 30.  
 
The main points required in a forcing rose under the present conditions are a good constitution and its accompaniments, namely, vigorous and rapid growth, strong upright stem, good substance, rich foliage, and immunity from disease; large flowers borne on single stems, with persistent petals of clean color and no tendency to turn purplish; sufficient doubleness of flower to prevent exposing the center when full blown, but not so double as to interfere with free and rapid development of blooms in midwinter; long and steady season of blooming.
American Belle, the Beauty's most promising offshoot, is a good thing with its originator, and with some others, but it must be confessed that in some localities it has not grown freely and has not as strong a constitution as Beauty. It is more useful than Beauty on account of its color, which is charming and does not deteriorate after being cut.