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'Mrs. A. Carnegie' rose References
Book (1985) Page(s) 152. Mrs. Andrew Carnegie It was white, a weak grower with paper petals, opening with difficulty in England; how the flowers managed to open at all in Aberdeen is a wonder.
Book (1936) Page(s) 130. Carnegie, Mrs. Andrew (HT) Cocker 1913; Druschki X Niphetos; white, shaded salmon, very large, double, fine form, high-centered, floriferous, growth 6/10. Sangerhausen
Website/Catalog (1929) Page(s) 26. Everblooming Roses The so-called Everblooming Roses include the Hybrid Tea and Pernetiana groups. They do not bloom all the time, but if kept healthy and growing steadily, one crop of flowers succeeds another at brief intervals. Mrs. Andrew Carnwgie. Hybrid Tea. (Cocker & Sons, 1913.) Large, creamy white flowers of good form and slightly fragrant. Plant fairly strong and a moderate bloomer. A beautiful but not always vigorous Rose, usually at its best in the autumn if there is not much rainy weather.
Website/Catalog (1924) Page(s) 24. Mrs Andrew F.-Carnegie.- Fl. blanc pur, bouton très long.
[no longer listed in the 1926 catalogue]
Website/Catalog (1921) Page(s) 28. Roses. Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, lemon tinted white; class: Hybrid Tea; habit of growth: vigorous.
Magazine (Jun 1920) Page(s) 139. Mrs ANDREW CARNEGIE. - (J. Cocker et Sons), une rose blanche qui semble être une hybridation de « Frau Karl Druschki », très florifère, mais d'un épanouissement souvent défectueux.
Book (1918) Page(s) 39. A. M. Ateur. Rose Growing on Chalk Soil. Mrs Andrew Carnegie is another Rose which must be shaded from rain or heavy dew from its bud stage upwards; and more than once I have got up at 1:30 am and gone to see if my shades were all right, when I had thought it possibly meant rain and there was a show to go to.
Book (1918) Page(s) 75. H. R. Darlington. A Study of Form in the Rose The type of white flower beginning with the comport Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, we may carry through Perle von Godesberg, Mrs. David McKee, Mabel Drew (a good Rose), White Killarney, Mrs. Andrew Carnegie and Florence Forrester;
Website/Catalog (1914) Page(s) 9. New Roses of other Raisers, 1913. The descriptions are those of the Raisers. Hybrid Tea. Mrs. Andrew Carnegie (Cocker). -- White, occasionally comes beautiful lemon tinted. Flowers very large, beautiful form, with every flower coming perfect shape with high centre and much superior in every way to "Frau Karl Druschki". The habit of growth is robust. Gold Medal, N.R.S. 5/-- each.
Website/Catalog (1914) Page(s) New Roses, p. 4. Hybrid Tea Mrs. Andrew Carnegie (J. Cocker & Sons). Fragrant and improved Druschki. Gold medal of N.R.S. (Druschki X ?)
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