Excerpt from Robert Simonet's December 27/1962 letter to Percy Wright.

"Skinners 'Applebloosom' rose is a fairly hardy everbloomer with pink, semi-double blooms. Not very showy, it has few thorns. It is nearly seed sterile, but its pollen is effective."

"By crossing Wm. Godfrey with another of my hybrids I secured four nice roses. One of these, now named "Appleblossom," keeps flowering throughout the summer and is now being tested in Europe where it has already created some interest."

Horticultural Horizons, Frank Leith Skinner, pg. 101

Excerpt from a Robert Simonet letter to Percy Wright, December 27/1962.

"Skinner's 'Appleblossom' rose is a fairly hardy everbloomer with pink, semi-double blooms. Not very showy, it has few thorns. It is nearly seed sterile, but its pollen is efective."