Book  (1988)  Page(s) 148, 149.  Includes photo(s).
 
Page 148: [Photo]
Page 149: Alexander Description.

Book  (1985)  Page(s) 164, 166.  
 
p. 164: Two seedlings from that first year's [1962] work were to give me some fine roses in the future; one was 'Anne Elizabeth' x 'Allgold'; the other 'Orange Sensation' x 'Allgold'. They were never introduced, because they were not in their own right marketable varieties. I called them 'half-way houses'. The influence of both is well marked in our breeding to this day.

p. 166: Among my varieties some of the best known are 'Alexander', 'Compassion', 'Mountbatten', 'Yesterday', 'Elizabeth Harkness', 'Southampton' and 'Amber Queen'. 

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 44.  
 
Alexander A very bright vermillion red, in fact the brightest H.T. to date. Large flowers borne in quantity on a healthy disease-resistant plant. Obviously it deserved the Certificate of Merit. Medium/tall. Harkness 1972.

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 2.  
 
Alexandra ® Harkness 1972. Cette variété se distingue particulièrement par sa rusticité, sa floribondité et la couleur très stable de ses roses rouge orangé très vif. Végétation plutôt haute. Parfumée.

Book  (1981)  Page(s) 213.  
 
S. Millar Gault. The Provincial Display Gardens.
Alexander' was growing well, showing many serrated petals as it does on occasion.

Book  (1978)  Page(s) 113.  
 
Alexander'  Tall   Vermilion   Remontant    P3  H3   ****
The colour of 'Super Star' had appeared to be something quite new in 1960, and in 1972 it was taken some stages further by 'Alexander'. The difference can best be appreciated by setting a flower of  each rose side by side,   when the luminous vermilion of 'Alexander' reveals how much pink underlies 'Super Star’. Probably some influence from the yellow pollen parent contributes to 'Alexander's' brilliance. It was bred  from 'Super Star' x ('Ann Elizabeth' x  Allgold').
'Alexander' is a tall and vigorous plant, with gleaming dark leaves and long flower stems. It can grow as a stalwart hedge, provided it is pruned each year; and will bear most  of its flowers about chest high in the British climate. The flowers are well formed, but not of such substance as those of 'Super Star'. They open from an attractive bud form into wide blooms of  about twenty-two petals. Sometimes the petals have scalloped  edges, and always the flowers gleam in the sun in quite astonishing brilliance.
I named this rose in memory of Earl Alexander of Tunis, who was the outstanding British General of the Second World War. He had been Honorary Colonel  of the 3/2 Punjab  Regiment, in which I spent most of my six years in the Army. The idea came to me when Major-General Naylor  took me to see Alexander's grave in his church at Ridge in Hertfordshire, and it was enthusiastically supported by my old friends in the Regiment.

Website/Catalog  (1976)  Page(s) 3.  
 
ALEXANDER ® (Harlex) Nouveauté 75 Rouge de Cinabre orangé. 70/80 -  parfumée  - Fleur bien formée, mi-pleine, sur tiges longues. Fleurit par tous les temps.

[no longer listed in 1977]

Book  (1974)  Page(s) 27.  
 
Roy and Heather Rumsey, NSW. New Roses.  
Alexander HT. (Harkness). The colour of this new variety is a really dazzling vermilion. The blooms are of the decorative type with about twenty-five petals, but they hold well either on the bush or when cut. Stems are long, and the foliage is splendid, and all in all another very good new rose.

Book  (1974)  Page(s) 37.  
 
Leonard Hollis, England.  The Twelve Best Recruits, 1969-72. 
'Alexander' ['Super Star' x ('Ann Elizabeth' x 'Allgold')] has been conspicuous at the Trial Grounds for the past three seasons and received a Certificate of Merit in 1972. Raised by R. Harkness & Co. Ltd., they claim, with some justification, that it makes 'Super Star' look pink by comparison. It is a particularly vivid orange-vermilion shade, only moderately full (about 22 petals), with shapely flowers at first, opening loosely. In the first flush they are mostly borne singly but are carried several together later in the season on tall and upright growth, as tall as that of the seed parent, amply clothed with semi-glossy foliage. This variety is extremely free-flowering and healthy. Indeed, it has been outstanding in this respect at the Trial Ground, with seedlings all round it dug up and burnt because of disease, while 'Alexander' stands in splendid isolation in full health.

Book  (1974)  Page(s) 62.  
 
Dr. A. S. Thomas  Roses Overseas 1973.  
Alexander. HT. (Harkness, 1973). ['Super Star' x ('Ann Elizabeth' x 'Allgold')l. Has possibly the best colouring of all the many vermilion roses and its plant is ideal. Long straight stems, excellent form, attractive foliage, good disease resistance and relatively few thorns make it a very fine decorative rose. It has only 20-25 petals—another row is needed to make it a true show rose. Named for Field-Marshall Earl Alexander of Tunis under whom the raiser served in World War II.