Book  (1918)  Page(s) 84.  
 
[From the article "Multiflora Ramblers" by Edward K. Butler, Jamaica Plain, Mass.]
Dawson. (Dawson, 1894.) This rose-pink variety still holds ist place as one of the earliest flowering Multifloras, and in addition is a very charming rose. It was a cross between General Jacqueminot and R. multiflora, and is of interest as being the first Multiflora rambler produced in America.

Magazine  (15 Jun 1911)  Page(s) Vol. 20, No 4, pp. 22-23, 66.  
 
AMERICA'S CONTRIBUTION TO ROSE CULTURE
By JACKSON DAWSON

When I began hybridizing roses in the early 'eighties there were very few good pillar roses that would stand the climate of New England without protection. So I began with the white-flowered variety of multiflora. The red one had lately been introduced, and this gave greater height and more flowers than any hardy rose we had. I made my first cross with multiflora and General Jacqueminot, which was then the most famous H. P. of a deep color — crimson. Of course, I hoped to get double or semi-double roses, and I also wished to retain the hardiness and climbing habit of multiflora. But a hybridizer must learn to be content with any break at all from the original species.

At first I failed, but at last a break was made and all sorts of forms were secured. As usual, most of them were worthless. But I got a pink rose which I crossed with General Jacqueminot, producing my first success, the Dawson rose, which received a silver medal in 1894 from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. This has large clusters of double, bright rose flowers, ten to twenty on a stem, and sometimes grows fifteen feet high. I had produced other good roses but they were poor parents. The Dawson was the first hardy climber which I could cross with other roses with any prospect of getting seed. With the aid of the Dawson I secured other good Ramblers with white, peach, salmon, red, and purple flowers, but they were all single or semi-double and I never got a yellow one. I tried to get a yellow Rambler by crossing Harrison's Yellow with the Dawson and multiflora, but the offspring were mongrels of the worst sort. I obtained the Dawson rose in 1888, and Mr. Patrick Barry said that it was well worth the journey from Rochester to see it. It grew about nine feet high, spread fifteen or twenty feet, and was covered with thousands of flowers in the early part of June. The Dawson is still cultivated in America and seems to be much prized in England.

Book  (1910)  Page(s) 261.  
 
The Dawson Rose [Multiflora]; a hybrid between No. 15 ['Polyantha' ('Single Multiflora')] and H.P. [Hybrid Perpetual] 'General Jacqueminot'. Its flowers are of a soft shade of pale rose, and although it is not strictly speaking a Rambler Rose, yet it is sufficiently vigorous to make a good hedge or to plant as isolated bushes.

Magazine  (13 Jan 1906)  Page(s) 23.  
 
The sixth and last variety recommended is Dawson Rambler, and a very excellent Rose it is. Few of the multiflora hybrids excel it in beauty and freedom, and Euphrosyne is quite surpassed by it. With me it is always one of the first to begin flowering, and the season has to be a very backward one if some of its flowers are not open before May is out. Then, again, it is superior to many of the multifloras because the plants flower when quite young, and one does not have to wait, as in the case of Aglaia and others., for three or four years before getting a good display. I have never tried it against a tree, but should imagine that it would be quite a success in such a position.

Book  (1906)  Page(s) 160.  
 
10.341. The Dawson Rose, Hybride de Multiflore ou Polyantha, Jackson D. 1900 cramoisi brillant

Book  (1906)  Page(s) 170.  
 
Mr. Jackson Dawson, Arnold Arboretum, Boston, Mass., has also produced some splendid varieties, raised from the Wichuraiana, among them the Dawson, vigorous grower, branches covered with double pink flowers.

Book  (1906)  Page(s) 60.  
 
The Dawson Rose (CIimbing Polyantha), Dawson, 1898.— Pale rose. — Vigorous climber. — Pillar, arch, pergola. — Summer-flowering.

Magazine  (13 Sep 1902)  Page(s) 591.  
 
"The Multiflora Rose"
We have frequently had occasion to speak of the very great decorative value of the multiflora Rose and its hybrids, and also to urge its still greater employment in garden effects. Those who have visited the Arnold Arboretum and have taken the opportunity to see the multiflora Roses there in their beauty and also the showy original plant of the Dawson Rose as it grows on a trellis near Mr. Dawson's house, will need no urging to appreciate the multiflora group of Roses.

Magazine  (5 Jul 1902)  Page(s) 430.  
 
"The Crimson Rambler Rose and its Mission"
Mr. Jackson Dawson, of the Arnold Arboretum, has been very busy for some years now with the production of multiflora hybrid Roses. One or two of these (be it said to his credit that he has distributed only one or two good ones out of many hundreds) are distinctly meritorious and are destined to fill a particular niche in garden decoration in the future. He has given us in the Dawson a charming pink rambler and in the new Farquhar, not yet distributed, we have the Wichuraiana habit and rampant growth with flowers of rich rose color and large size.

Website/Catalog  (1898)  
 
THE DAWSON ROSE. A very pretty pink rambler of rapid growth; bears perfect
wreaths of flowers in clusters, semi-double, color a deep pink on the outer
half of petals, center of the flower white, with bright yellow stamens; flowers
are followed by bright red berries. A very lovely rose. Plants 15 cts., 25 cts.,
and 50 cts. each.