(1988)  Page(s) 44.  
 
‘Arethusa’ with lovely yellow shades and …. are two rewarding Chinas of later introduction and, for impact of their delicate shades, are best planted in groups of three.

(1988)  Page(s) 78.  
 
The last nursery I visited in South Australia is in the grounds of Hughes Park, Watervale, a mansion built between 1867 and 1873 and now home of Walter Duncan and his family. There, along a fronting balustrade, 'Cloth of Gold', with a massive bole, has trailed its way for a century.....

(1988)  Page(s) 120.  
 
Jack [Bentall] discovered some papers relating to the 1930s; an order from the Earl of Buchan at Virginia Water of 1935, he thinks for planting at the golf course, of some 200 Hybrid Musks, including four dozen 'Fortuna', a soft pink awarded in 1927 a NRS Gold Medal (the trophy passed to Ann)....

(1988)  Page(s) 63.  
 
....Général Jacqueminot, was introduced in 1853 and described ten year later by David Hay of Auckland as 'most brilliant, crimson, scarlet, even surpassing 'Géant des Batailles', the best in this class'. Eighteen year later, Henderson of New York, emphasized, 'This is now the most fashionable of all roses, or winter flowers' and thought that probably 200,000 sq. ft (18,580 sq. m) of greenhouses were devoted exclusively to its growth in the vicinity of New York for the purpose of forcing it. Still the praise continued: B. A. Elliott & Co., Plantsmen of Pittsburgh had 'never had better success with Hybrid Perpetuals than in last summer and autumn; one bed of Jacqueminots containing a hundred plants gave us quantities of bloom daily from June to September' (A Few Flowers Worthy of General Culture, Pittsburgh, 1899).

Finally, forty years after introduction, T. B. Jenkins added his applause:
In 1853 France gave us Général Jacqueminot, leader of the Hybrid Perpetuals, the grand, dark crimson rose, so sturdy in growth, rich in bloom and powerful in colour. The great half grown crimson buds have slept on the bosom of every belle since that day and they have been sold by the hundred for as many dollars to New York dealers and were retailed, no doubt, for twice that sum. A few days before one Christmas the only Jacqueminot buds to be found in the city were sold for $15 each or eight times their weight in gold. Roses and Rose Culture, Rochester, N.Y. (1892)

(1988)  Page(s) 96.  
 
....There are singles - pink-white 'Glory of Edzell' and...

(1988)  Page(s) 90.  Includes photo(s).
 
Photo. Early rambler, 'Madame d'Arblay' from Mr. Wells of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 1835; here seen at Mottisfont.

In 1835 an amateur enthusiast in England, a Mr. Wells of Tunbridge Wells introduced two rambling roses using, it is thought R. moschata x R. multiflora for 'The Garland' and reversing the parents for 'Madame d'Arblay'. ...... though 'Madame'; makes but rare appearances - and the only one I have seen graces an old apple tree at Mottisfont. However, it was known early in the USA and called by Robert Buist 'Wells' White Climber', deemed very hardy and vigorous and thought by him a possible good stock rose.