Book  (1979)  Page(s) 16.  
 
Review of New Roses 1978-1979. Floribundas.
'Old Master' Wine and silver: 18 reports; 4 years; 100cm; N.R.S. 8.1. Milton: Low growing; quick to repeat; lovely when fresh, fades in hot weather. Auckland: Better all the time; likes lots of good "tucker": very healthy. Bay of Plenty: An asset to the garden; unusual bicolour.

Book  (1978)  Page(s) 40.  
 
Review of New Roses 1977-1978
'Old Master'. Wine with silver. 19 reports; 3 years; IOOcm; N.R.S. 7.9. Tamaki: This bush improving each year. Lots of flowers. Needs plenty of food. Oamaru: Healthy and disease free. Colour stands out in garden. Good repeat. Does very well here, we like it. Cambridge: Love the wine tonings when freshly out, does not age so well.

Book  (1978)  Page(s) 129.  
 
In 1974 'Picasso' was succeeded by 'Old Master'. This is a vigorous grower, with large semi-double flowers; the carmine and white pattern upon them is dramatic. As in all 'Picasso's successors to date, the foliage is dark and glossy. In this case the parents are given as {['Evelyn Fison' x ('Tantau's Triumph' x R. X coryana)] x ('Hamburger Phoenix' x 'Danse du Feu')} x ['Evelyn Fison' x ('Orange Sweetheart' x 'Fruhlingsmorgen')].

Book  (1978)  Page(s) 99.  
 
Sam McGredy. A Hand-Painted Family Tree.
MACfundad on 'Maxi' gave me the important 'Old Master'. It combines the health of 'Maxi' with the exotic plum-red markings of the hand-painted type.

Book  (1977)  
 
p26. New Zealand International Rose Trial Awards. Trial Six, 1976.
Certificate of Merit. 74/573* Old Master. Fl. S. McGredy, New Zealand.
[*A trial number, not a breeder code number]

p34 Review of Newer Roses - 1976-77 Season. Floribundas.
'Old Master'. Claret-silver. 14 reports; 2 years; 100cm; N.R.S. 7.3. Te Puke: Novelty, has value. Blackspot prone. Good colour effect in garden. Papatoetoe: Improved greatly in wet conditions. Lovely when fresh. Oamaru: Velvety c1aret silver. Good repeat. Really outstanding:

Book  (1976)  Includes photo(s).
 
p28. Review of Newer Roses - 1975-76 Season.
'Old Master' Claret red/silver. 12 reports. I year; 70cm; N.R.S. 7.7. Gisborne: Draws visitors every time. Like all this series, closes up at night and in cool cloudy weather to show paler reverse, fascinating. Bay of Plenty: Has flowered continually. Very exciting. Kaiapoi: A charmer. Quick repeat. A real conversation piece on healthy, low wiry growth.

p33. [Photo] 'Old Master'. Raised by S. McGredy.

p33 Pamela Morrah. Trial Six – The Pick of the Bunch.
Adaptability too, belongs to Sam McGredy's hand painted series and 1975 has brought him many awards for these. With every new trial I find myself searching to see what new ones Sam McGredy has created for us and I'm intrigued and fascinated with what is entered and the new qualities each brings: the attractive foliage, the texture and colour of .... 'Old Master'. 'Old Master' is in claret with a silver edge, a silver reverse and a silver eye, an arresting colour effect..... 'Old Master' has been flowering non stop for six weeks from the first week in November, and still new growth is coming. What a rose! I saw it exhibited for the first time in the floribunda classes at the New South Wales spring show in late October. The exhibitor, a keen floral artist told me how much she enjoyed using it in period arrangements with the large pink single 'Sparrieshoop'. She recommended planting the hand-painted roses in dappled shade; the markings are much more distinct in a cooler situation.

p50. John and Nola Simpson. Some of Our New Ones.
'Old Master'. Fl. Dense bushy healthy plants act as the perfect foil for the dark claret-red flowers edged in white. A very striking rose with a difference. Flowers very early.

Book  (1975)  Page(s) 86.  
 
Stelvio Coggiatti, Rose Trials in Rome, Italy. 
Old Master Certificate of Merit. Introduced by Sam McGredy (New Zealand). The large, semi-double flowers are representative of the new style started with 'Picasso'. Eighteen broad, half-cupped petals with an inner purple-red splash, mahogany-red, semi-glossy foliage admirably matching the flowers. Uncommon, decorative, vitreous thorns densely set. Compact, balanced growth.

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p45. E. F. Allen. Awards to New Rose Seedlings in Great Britain in 1974. Trial Ground Certificate.
'Old Master' ('Maxi' x seedling). Another hand-painted floribunda from Sam McGredy, more vigorous and upright-growing than 'Picasso', with deep carmine flowers with a white eye, petal edge and reverse. The petals are noticeably wavy-edged, which gives the flowers a most distinctive appearance. Foliage is dark and glossy and I thought very highly of this variety but it was attacked by blackspot late in the 1973 growing season. The award was given in 1973 when it was unnamed.

p159 Avenue Nurseries advertisement.
'Old Master' - Dark velvet claret-red, The colour of 'Roger Lambelin" on a densely bushy, healthy plant with dark olive green foliage which serves as a perfect foil for the richly coloured flowers. A striking new variety from Sam McGredy,

Book  (1975)  Page(s) 185.  Includes photo(s).
 
Photo caption: 'Old Master' (floribunda. [('Evelyn Fison' x ('Tantau's Triumph' x R. macrophylla coryana)) x ('Hamburger Phoenix' x 'Danse du Feu')] x ['Evelyn Fison' x ('Orange Sweetheart' x Fruhlingsmorgen')].
Raised by Sam McGredy Roses International, New Zealand. Trial ground Certificate 1973. See 1974 Rose Annual, page 183.

Magazine  (1974)  Page(s) 30.  
 
Le rose premiate a Roma. Categoria floribunda e assimilate
Certificato di merito con punti 73,77 a Old Master, varietà inviata da Sam MacGredy (Nuova Zelanda). Rosaio con pronunciatissimi caratteri di novità nell’aspetto del fiore; diciotto petali ampi, leggermente bombati, bianchi alla base e nel sottile margine perimetrale con ampia ragnatura rosso-violaceo che si fa sempre più intensa; fogliame rosso-mogano, decorativo in sintonia con il colore dei fiori. Interessanti aculei molto ravvicinati, conici, traslucidi, rosso-bruno; vegetazione compatta, equilibrata, vigorosa.