Newsletter  (Aug 2014)  Page(s) 7.  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "Nevada City’s Pine Grove Cemetery: Revisiting Old Survivors", by Kathy Hammes, Joy Feller and Kathy Granlund, pp. 6-10]
“Leonard’s Noisette” (Tower Plot Noisette): Mary V. Tower is the only burial in this plot, having passed in July 1866, no birth date given. This rose more than any other in the entire cemetery stops you with the powerful fragrance. Did Mary know the fragrance of this rose while she lived? I am convinced that this rose truly likes me as it is the only one I have successfully propagated, and its child resides on another plot in the cemetery behaving exactly like its parent.

Book  (2009)  Page(s) 43.  Includes photo(s).
 
"St. Leonard" Found in Maryland, USA, in the garden of a friend of Ethelyn Emery Keays by Rev. Douglas T. Seidel, circa 1970.
Found over a wide area from Maryland to Ohio and brought to California in the 1970s, this rose was given its mystery name by old rose writer Ethelyn Emery Keays, who discovered it at the St. Leonard post office in Maryland. Rev. Douglas Seidel rediscovered "St. Leonard" at the home of a friend of Mrs. Keays after her death. Large, blowsy flowers of near white with bold, ribbon-like petals can measure more than 2 inches wide. They form clusters of broad, drooping flower stalks. The plant is robust, arching and trailing. with deep green foliage. Misidentified as 'Jeanne d'Arc', this rose is still sold as such.

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Book  (1936)  Page(s) 640.  
 
St. Leonards (?) in America ca. 1860? ; pure white.

Book  (1935)  Page(s) 126.  
 
St. Leonard Found Rose. Description... white, blooming in great clusters, often coming with a sharp small spot of deep rose-color in the center... [found] near St. Leonard post office...

Book  (1933)  Page(s) 71.  
 
Mrs. Frederick L. Keays. Last year we called a Noisette we had found, "St. Leonards" for the post office near which we got cuttings from an old bush. During the past summer the roses we grew spread out into diffuse plants about 4 feet high, with clusters of 40 to 60 pure white flowers. Whether this variety be 'Aimee Vibert' or not, it has an 'Aimee Vibert' complex! It is very hard to grow from cuttings, a fact noted by Ellwanger about that variety.

Book  (1932)  Page(s) 105.  
 
Mrs. Frederick L. Keays. Old Roses in Calvert County, Maryland.
We have one with white flowers coming in great clusters, pure white under the sun but often opening with a deep rose-colored, small sharply marked center made by the rosy shanks of the petals. The books say 'Aimee Vibert' is pure white. so be it. We are calling the white rose "St. Leonards" as we got it near the St. Leonards post office.