Book  (2000)  Page(s) 131.  Includes photo(s).
 
‘Brenda’ = Hybride de Rubiginosa… églantines, entre rose vif et fleur de pêcher, se colore mieux à la mi-ombre… éclosent en fin de printemps… En automne… nuée de fruits rouges. C’est un juge britannique du nom de Lord Penzance, qui a créé ce rosier et d’autres, en fécondant des fleurs de Rosa eglanteria, porte-graine élégant et parfumé, avec du pollen d’hybride remontant ou de rosier Bourbon, afin d’obtenir des fleurs plus grosses et plus colorées à floraison répétée… Penzance, UK 1894. Ascendance inconnue.

Book  (Apr 1999)  Page(s) 559.  
 
Brenda Rubiginosa. Lord Penzance 1894

Book  (1994)  Page(s) 16.  
 
A Penzance [eglantine] hybrid that has especially aromatic foliage. Keynes, Williams and Company, 1894. Parentage unknown… delicately colored peach-pink blossoms that occasionally repeat their bloom in the fall, especially after an Indian Summer. This variety is rarely seen today.

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 63.  
 
Brenda Eglanteria, peach-blossom-pink, 1894, Penzance. Description.

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 169.  
 
location 203/3, R. rubiginosa L. var. apricorum x R. foetida 'BRENDA', Lord Penzance, 1894, peach-pink, center white, single, fragrant, medium size, cluster-flowered, vigorous, climbing, 3-6 m, large prickles, dark green medium size matte-glossy fragrant foliage, 5-7 leaflets, light orange medium size matte-glosy ovoid glandular fruit, reflexed foliaceous long sepals, fall off singly

Website/Catalog  (1938)  Page(s) 48.  
 
Hybrid Sweet Briars.
Pruning. — Cut back fairly hard first season after planting; afterwards they only require thinning and slightly stopping the long shoots and laterals.
Brenda... Maiden's blush or peach. Introduced 1894.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 105.  
 
Brenda (hybrid rubiginosa) Lord Penzance 1894; peach-pink, climbing. Sangerhausen

Website/Catalog  (1929)  Page(s) 66.  
 
Hybrid Sweetbriers
A class of Roses known as the Penzance Briers, developed by Lord Penzance from the common Sweetbrier, Rosa rubiginosa. They have deliciously scented foliage, and bear charming single or half-double flowers along their arching canes, which look best rising from a lower undergrowth. Useful in parks, along driveways, and in shrubberies. When well established, they are very hardy. These Roses are $1 each for strong, field-grown plants.
Brenda. (Penzance, 1894.) Light peachy pink, fairly large flowers, borne in long, graceful garlands; fragrant flowers and foliage. Very vigorous growth.

Website/Catalog  (1928)  Page(s) 18.  
 
Hybrides d’Églantiers odorants...
Brenda.- Rose pêche tendre, simple.

[no longer listed in the 1929 catalogue]

Website/Catalog  (1923)  Page(s) 53.  
 
Rosa Rubiginosa Brenda (Penzance, 1894). Pale pink single-bloomed.