Article (magazine)  (2023)  
 
‘Harison’s Yellow’ has a citrus-like sour-sweet scent, and almost no R. foetida-like unpleasant odor in its flowers. The major scent component of ‘Harison’s Yellow’ is geranyl acetate. A trace amount of (Z)- jasmone, a characteristic scent component of R. foetida, was detected in this cultivar

Article (magazine)  (Feb 2013)  Page(s) 3-4.  
 
Around 1830 on his family estate in then-rural Manhattan, a quiet lawyer, George Folliott Harison, kept a greenhouse where he bred a fully double, darkly yellow rose that came to be called ‘Harison’s Yellow’. It was the first yellow rose developed in the United States. Propagated by William Prince, it was introduced in 1835. Another New York nurseryman, Thomas Hogg, also sold the rose, some of which a partner sent to England under the name of ’Hogg’s Yellow’; hence, its other— less common—name. The rose became quickly popular and spread through the developing nation. When it reached Texas, it became known as “The Yellow Rose of Texas.” ‘Harison’s Yellow’ has been found along the Oregon Trail and through California’s gold rush country. The rosarian Frances E. Lester found it growing in ghost towns and other deserted places there in the 1940s. Still available in some nurseries today, it is the third oldest surviving rose in the United States.

Newsletter  (Nov 2011)  Page(s) 2.  
 
“The Logtown Rose.” When Maryum and John McKee left Missouri for Oregon in 1853, Maryum included—along with some kitchenware, flour, and sugar—the cutting of a yellow rose from her yard. Settling in southern Oregon near Jacksonville, an area that became known as Logtown, Maryum planted the rose beside the front gate as a welcome to visitors. In 1959 for Oregon’s centennial, the Applegate Garden Club planted sixty cuttings from this original rosebush along the front fence of the Logtown Cemetery. Signs and plaques were posted to honor Maryum’s legacy of the rose, which is ‘Harison’s Yellow’.
(Retold and compiled from Mary Drain Albro by Kathleen McMullen of Northwest Rose Historians.)

Website/Catalog  (27 Jul 2011)  
 
Rosa ‘Harrisonii’
‘Harrisonii’ is a shrubby, spring flowering rose, very fragrant, bearing its cupped, semi-double yellow flowers on a neat, upright bush, more robust than ‘William’s Yellow’.  [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903), Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863)].
 
 Horticultural & Botanical History
Bred in New York in 1836 from a cross between R. spinosissima, the Scotch rose and R. foetida, the Austrian Briar.
 
 History at Camden Park
Arrived from Veitch’s Nursery, Chelsea on Dec, 31st, 1859 on board the ‘Hollinside’ but dead on arrival.  For more detail see Rosa ‘Ducher’.

Book  (Aug 2002)  Page(s) 46.  
 
Harison's Yellow
Hybrid Foetida 1830
Rated 8.2

Book  (2001)  Page(s) 48.  
 
Harison's Yellow Hybrid Foetida, deep yellow, 1830. Rating: 8.2

Book  (Apr 1999)  Page(s) 170-171.  
 
Harison's Yellow ('Harisonii', 'Hogg's Yellow') Hybrid foetida. Harison, ca. 1824. Parentage: conjecturally from Rosa foetida x R. pimpinellifolia. The author cites information from different sources... Flower soft gold and yellow, semi-double... Golden yellow... Do not prune it, except to take out dead canes... This very beautiful yellow, and in fact the only yellow rose of this character that I have seen worth cultivating, was grown by a Mr. Harrison [sic], near New York, about twenty years ago, and is evidently a seedling from the Yellow Austrian... Raised from seed by the late Geo. Harrison [sic, Esq., of New-York, from whom I [William Prince] received the first plant he parted with, in exchange for a Camellia Aitoni... Numerous seedlings have been raised from this variety, but all that have come under my notice have proved very similar, or inferior to it...

Website/Catalog  (4 Jan 1999)  Page(s) 126.  Includes photo(s).

Article (newsletter)  (Oct 1998)  Page(s) 28.  Includes photo(s).
 
[This article previously appeared in the Detroit Rose Society's "Rose Lore" and is an excellent source for a great deal of information abuot this rose.] Bred around 1830 in the Lower West Side of Manhattan by George Folliott Harison, or possibly his father Richard, (both wealthy New York lawyers with a strong interest in gardening)...

Book  (1997)  Page(s) 23.  Includes photo(s).