(2005)  Page(s) 137.  
 
Reprinted from Heritage Roses NZ Journal 12(2): 24-25 (1991)
For many years now I have been raising seedling roses as well as sundry fruit trees. First of all I tried to raise some good roses free of thorns, and worked with a smooth stem rose, a Hybrid Tea / Floribunda named Royal Flush from Florida, U.S.A. This rose had Turkey red-orange blooms.

(2005)  Page(s) 133.  
 
Reprinted from Heritage Roses NZ Journal 8(3): 18-20 (1987)
I happen to have had a dozen bushes of such a rose named Royal Flush. None of these bushes have any thorns at all, but I detect an odd thorn on one bush. What's more, the petioles of the leaves are also smooth and thorn-free. So far no single offspring from this rose has been 100 percent thorn-free, though generally speaking thorns are hard to find on the seedling rose bushes. 'Royal Flush' is a bicolour - turkey-red and orange - very bright and attractive and the bush is healthy.

(2005)  Page(s) 127.  
 
Reprinted from Heritage Roses NZ Journal 11(1): 21-22 (1990)
I have grown batches of seedlings from the only smooth stemmed Hybrid Tea/Floribunda I have ever seen, a bi-colour turkey red-orange rose known as Royal Flush, but this capacity to produce smooth stemmed seedlings is misleading. The first year a plant may be without thorns, but by the third year thorns develop, sometimes to excess, in spite of its smooth-stemmed parent.

(2005)  Page(s) 115.  
 
Reprinted from Heritage Roses NZ Journal 8(1): 5-11 (1987)
....I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the hips which form in great numbers on a 100 per cent thorn-free modern Floribunda rose named Royal Flush the seeds of which I have used in rose breeding.....

(2005)  
 
p20. ....'Slater's Crimson China'....was one of the earliest roses introduced into new Zealand - indeed there is a tradition that it was, with the 'Sweet Briar', among the first roses planted by Samuel Marsden's C.M.S. missionary families.

[see also p28, p32, p37, p38 & p42]