Newsletter  (Oct 2009)  Page(s) 27.  
 
The Queen Mother, was originally named August Seebauer in 1944. A problem arose in 1951, when the fine pink floribunda August Seebauer, raised by Kordes and introduced in Germany in 1944, won an award in the Society’s trials. The agents for Kordes, Henry Morse & Sons of Norfolk, planned to introduce it as ‘The Queen Mother’. The Society persuaded them not to, on the grounds that using a royal title as a second choice for an existing rose was not appropriate. Later in the 1950’s, during a tour of the Sandringham Show by the Queen Mother, she approached an exhibit staged by Stedman’s Roses of Peterborough. They showed her a newly discovered sport of Nymph, and asked if they could call it ‘The Queen Mother’. The rose was duly introduced under that name in 1959. The National Rose Society could do nothing about this, but felt it was too direct an approach.

Book  (2000)  Page(s) 94.  Includes photo(s).
 
‘August Seebauer’/’The Queen Mother’ = Floribunda… Ernest Morse, qui aurait souhaité la dédier à la reine mère, mais les autorités firent entendre qu’il aurait fallu la nommer ainsi d’emblée. Rose clair en bouton, elle s’épanouit rose intense, en bouquets parfois immenses et bien remontants jusqu’en automne. Le rosier est à port dressé, bien buissonnant, de taille moyenne; son feuillage vernissé craint un peu l’oïdium. Kordes, Allemagne, 1944. RNRS Trial Ground Certificate 1951.

Book  (1997)  Page(s) 305.  
 
August Seebauer ('Queen Mother') Floribunda. Kordes (Germany) 1944. Description... Large, double, clear pink and high-centred blooms...

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 32.  
 
August Seebauer Floribunda, deep rose-pink, 1944, ('The Queen Mother'); 'Break o' Day (HT) x 'Else Poulsen'; Kordes. Description.

Book  (Feb 1993)  Page(s) 220.  Includes photo(s).
 
August Seebauer Cluster-flowered floribunda. Parentage: 'Break o' Day' x 'Else Poulsen'. (aka 'The Queen Mother') Germany 1944. Description and cultivation... Large clusters of shapely pink, double blooms with prominent centres...

Book  (May 1992)  Page(s) 261-262.  Includes photo(s).
 
August Seebauer ('The Queen Mother'. Description... Large, double, clear pink and high-centred blooms... in sizeable clusters...

Article (website)  (1982)  Page(s) 9.  
 
August Seebauer​ (Floribunda)​ Clusters of "substantial" flowers of rich rose pink on a vigorous, healthy plant.​ Very free flowering.​ 1944.​(C)​ 3 x 2’

Book  (1974)  Page(s) 52.  
 
David Ruston, South Australia. Roses of Distinction. 
I must mention one other pink and that is the old (1944) rose, pink 'August Seebauer'—overlooked by most people but a really good variety which produces an abundance of flowers that are beautiful when fully opened to show their quartered centres.

Book  (1958)  Page(s) 19.  
 
August Seebauer. F. (Kordes, '44.) Break o'Day X Else Poulsen. Bud long pointed, light red; fl. large, dbl., high centered, fragrant, deep rose-pink; cluster. Fol. glossy. Very vig.; profuse bloom.

Book  (1956)  Page(s) 16.  
 
Dr. A. S. Thomas.  New Roses Since 1948.  
The novelties in 1952 were more numerous than ever, and now, only four years later, many are forgotten already. This is not always fully justified.  For instance, August Seebauer, Betty Morse, Gertrude Westphal and Herzblut, all Floribundas, appear to have been passed over without due trial. I do not know of any of them in any garden, and yet overseas they are all regarded highly.