(1886)  Page(s) 59.  
 
"Roses in the Fortunate Islands." By Alexander Hill Gray.
On the 4th of March, I cut, in a small garden in Oratava, the richest and largest Chromotella I have as yet seen. Its depth was exactly half that of its diameter, which measured five and three-quarter inches. Three or four thumping buds were attached to the same stalk, the bloom itself just beginning slightly to show the heart.
I pictured to myself the furore which thirty six-inch Cloth of Gold Roses would have created, could they but have been exhibited in the National Rose Society's show in London.

(1899)  Page(s) 37.  
 
In 1896 we had Coolings' Single Crimson Bedder, one of the brightest single Roses, and, unlike so many singles, in flower from early till late.

(1899)  Page(s) 46.  
 
Ferdinand Jamin (Hybrid Tea) is most distinct and beautiful, and of good habit. It is a large, globular flower, rosy carmine, shaded with clear salmon

(1886)  Page(s) 56.  
 
"Roses in the Fortunate Islands." By Alexander Hill Gray.
Splendid bushes of Homére—or as the Spaniards call her Coquilla, from the shell like appearance of her flowers—were never far away, its branches weighed down with such quantities of buds as we never dream of in merry England, and though I searched everywhere for seeds of this Rose, I never succeeded in obtaining any, either of it, or of Souvenir de la Malmaison.

(1899)  Page(s) 46.  
 
In Irene Watts we have a Rose much resembling Laurette Messimy, but larger, of more substance, and far better growth.

(1889)  
 
Madame Henri Pereire (Vilin)

(1886)  Page(s) 56.  
 
"Roses in the Fortunate Islands." By Alexander Hill Gray.
In Mr. Le Brun's garden, the charms of a Maréchal Niel took me completely by storm, the deep richness of its colour also putting Cloth of Gold completely in the shade. Others may have beheld the outer petals of Maréchal Niel tinged with that blushing hue, so characteristic of Marie Van Houtte after a frosty morning, but only in Teneriffe and the Grand Canary, have I as yet had an opportunity of observing this. The great substance in the Maréchal no doubt prevents it from seeding readily, the faded blooms seeming always to rot away, and a few incipient pods all that I could ever obtain. Its very substance, however, enables this King of Roses to outlive sunshine, long after Cloth of Gold has shown her heart. This was very perceptible in the Canaries, in the month of April.
Unfortunately, not one of the cuttings of Maréchal Niel, and of other varieties which I have brought home with me have lived, one by one gradually pining away.

(1886)  Page(s) 62.  
 
"Roses in the Fortunate Islands." By Alexander Hill Gray.
Marie Guillot we also saw, though not in perfection, as 70° Fahrenheit had not sufficed to open her buds.
Drawing our Spanish friend's attention to this, he said, that in summer time Marie Guillot yielded most lovely flowers, but that during the colder weather he was in the habit of treating his cow—which he kept in an adjoining hut—to repeated doses of poor Marie Guillot herself.
The word barbarous escaped from me, but did not prevent Don Estevan from forthwith indulging his cow with a basket full of Marie Guillot branches, having a profusion of buds, all which the animal seemed very much to relish.

(1890)  Page(s) 46.  
 
....as Indica Stellulata (Miss Lowe's variety) and Pissardii, a doubtful species from Persia.

(1886)  Page(s) 62.  
 
"Roses in the Fortunate Islands." By Alexander Hill Gray.
Between the sugar cane and the trellis, a narrow strip of ground had been planted with Orange, Guava, and Plantain trees, but those uncontrollable Teas, not content with waving defiance upon their neighbours from above, had so entangled and interlaced themselves in the mass of vegetation below, as to have made locomotion no easy task.
Among the irrepressibles, Louis Philippe, Chromotella, and La Marque particularly distinguished themselves; while Homère, Comtesse de Caserta, Mad. Bravy and Souvenir de la Malmaison, unable to soar aloft as did their great rivals, were fighting for space in the jungle around them, Malmaison and wild Geraniums everywhere together, in the thickest of the fray.
I could not help thinking that if ever the Rose becomes classed as a weed, the fault will lie in no small measure with Souvenir de la Malmaison, and this notwithstanding its most delicious perfume in southern climates.
In the Fortunate Islands, Malmaison never sleeps, and never ceases from encroaching upon its neighbours' preserves, and Don Estevan assured me, that he had counted on a single branch of it no less than seventy-five blossoms.