Magazine  (Sep 2020)  Page(s) 30. Vol 42, No. 3.  Includes photo(s).
 
Editor.  More HTs with Pernetiana Features. 
Mevrouw G. A. van Rossem, 1929 
 

Book  (Dec 1998)  Page(s) 409.  Includes photo(s).
 
Mevrouw G. A. Van Rossem. Syn: ‘Mrs. G. A. van Rossem’. Modern. Large-flowered Hybrid Tea. Orange blend. Repeat-flowering. This rose was much sought after in its heyday due to the rich color of the blooms. They are a beautiful orange with much reddish veining with the undersides of the petals often darker or even bronze. The flowers are of medium size, full of rather short petals, open cupped with a rounded outline and have a good fruity scent. They appear freely through summer and autumn, and fifty years ago they were noted for continuing in bloom after other garden roses of the time had ceased. In a rosarium, this is a good Large-flowered Rose to grow as a worthy representative of its period. The plant is upright and bushy, growing a little below average height, and has dark green leaves that look sparse by the standards of today. Van Rossem. The Netherlands 1929. ‘Souvenir de Claudius Pernet’ x ‘ Gorgeous’. National Rose Society Certificate of Merit 1928.

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 376.  
 
Mevrouw G.A. van Rossem Hybrid tea, orange and apricot on golden yellow, veined red, reverse often dark bronze, 1929, ('Mrs. G.A. van Rossem'); 'Souv. de Claudius Pernet' x 'Gorgeous'; Van Rossem. Description.

Book  (1978)  Page(s) 85.  
 
Mev. G. A. van Rossem.  One of the most beautiful roses of the 1920s, the orange-yellow petals run through by red veins.  It was a rose one knew at once, there being none so similar as to be confused with it.  'Mrs. G. A.'  as we invariably called her, had excellent firm flower stems.  When I began to work in the 1930s, it was our practice before leaving for a rose show, to support every Hybrid Tea flower by a piece of stub wire pushed into its ovary, and wound two or three times around the stem about a handsbreadth below.  If there was one variety in those days which did not need its wire, it was ''Mrs. G. A.'   Thirty years later, by which time more and more varieties had been excused wiring, I discontinued it completely, and to me that proved the progress made in breeding firm flower stems over the period.  We are now far removed from the nodding heads of the Teas.  
The veining of 'Mrs. G. A.' was potentially a very beautiful feature. Something of the same character was shown by 'Signora Piero Puricelli' (usually known as 'Signora') and it's pollen child, 'Mojave'.  'Mrs. G. A. van Rossem' does not appear to have been used to breed those two.  Her parentage is given as 'Souvenir de Claudius Pernet' x 'Gorgeous'.  The veining could well have come from 'Gorgeous'. The breeder was at G. A. van Rosssem of Naarden, Holland, and the rose was introduced in 1926 (1929 in USA).

Book  (1960)  Page(s) 16.  
 
Dr. A. S. Thomas: 'Bettina'..... better than Mevrouw 'G. A. van Rossem', though smaller.

Website/Catalog  (1960)  Page(s) 12.  
 
MEVROW C.A. VAN ROSSEM (Van Rossem 1927). Orange cuivré, veiné plus foncé.  FL [feuillage luisant].  LO  [légèrement odorantes].

[no longer listed in 1975]

Book  (1958)  Page(s) 234.  
 
Mevrouw G. A. van Rossem (Mrs. G. A. van Rossem). HT. (van Rossem; int. C-P, '29.) Souv. de Claudius Pernet X Gorgeous. Large, dbl., very fragrant, orange and apricot on golden yellow ground veined red, reverse often dark bronze. Fol. very large, dark, bronzy, leathery. Vig.

Article (misc)  (1954)  Page(s) 42.  
 
Mevrouw G.A. van Rossem 28 chromosomes.

Magazine  (Mar 1952)  Page(s) 1. trimester, p. 7.  
 
Le pédoncule d'aspect épineux de « Mewrouw van Rossen » ne peut être confondu avec celui, pourtant soyeux, de « Ville de Paris ».

Book  (1951)  Page(s) 17.  
 
Harry H. Hazlewood.  'Mme. Kriloff' has been described as a greatly improved Mevrouw G. A. Van Rossem.