Newsletter  (Nov 2013)  Page(s) 13.  
 
[From "California's oldest surviving roses", by Darrell Schramm]
More interested in results than in process, Burbank did not keep careful records. The fi rst rose he introduced, Peach Blow in 1893, possibly a hybrid China rose, no longer exists.

Magazine  (19 Jan 1895)  Page(s) Vol 49, No. 3.  Includes photo(s).
 
'Peachblow' (Burbank 1893)
The flowers last year ruled one-third larger than before, and approach the size of 'La France'. The flowers in the engraving are about one-half natural size. The 'Peachblow' grows a round, stocky bush about two and one half feet high and across and blooms all summer, but not as freely as 'La France' perhaps. The buds are especially elegant; on stiff, upright stems. The foliage is large and leathery, glossy green, with new growth crimson. The picture shows the character of the leaf well, also the form of the flower, but it fails of course of its coloring, which is notably fine. The inside of the petals is a pale, silvery, peach pink, like 'La France'; the reverse is dark, bronzy carmine pink. The effect of the open bud is entrancing.

Website/Catalog  (1894)  Page(s) 35.  Includes photo(s).
 
M.—17806
“Peachblow”
It is impossible to do this Rose justice by description, as the peculiar shading is something not before developed in Roses to the extent that it is in this one. The inside of the petals is a pale, silvery, peach pink, like La France; the reverse, dark, bronzy carmine pink. When the buds are opening the effect can be imagined. One of the heartiest of plants, compact growing, with large healthy foliage.
Forty large bushes. Price, $300.