"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," from American Florist, August 12 1911, p. 106.

"The old gentleman [Anthony Cook, florist of Baltimore] always declared that from his garden was taken the rose which was noticed in George Bancroft’s garden, transplanted thence and propagated and introduced to the trade as the ‘American Beauty’," from periodical Gardening, 1906, p. 269.

This is a very pleasing rose for me, with lovely looking blooms, reasonable repeat, an extremely attractive shade of pink, and above all, a great fragrance. Not all that bad for BS and mildew compared to my other H Perpetuals, good vigorous growth. Very glad I have it.