Magazine  (Dec 2021)  Page(s) 17. Vol 43, No. 4.  Includes photo(s).
 
Billy West.  "Toronto" and Improved Cecile Brunner 
Some years ago, Di Durston received a rose with the study name “Toronto” from David Clark in NSW. David had collected it from a mid-century suburban garden in the suburb of Toronto on the shores of Lake Macquarie. Di arranged for a local Perth nursery to propagate extra plants on Fortuneana rootstock and shared them around. Lynne Chapman added “Toronto” to the Pinjarra Heritage Rose Garden and Hillary Merrifield and I added the plant to our respective pot forests.....

.This rose has buds that are rich mid-pink with a suggestion of salmon - a colour Harry Hazlewood described as ‘deep imperial pink’. The inner face of the petals is lighter in colour making the fully open blooms much lighter than the buds, with warmer, deeper pink shadows at their heart. As the blooms open, the contrast between the face and reverse of the petals makes an interesting play of colour and the deeper centres are further enhanced by glimpses of red stamens. When partly open the buds are high- centred, opening to small rosettes. As they expand more fully, the petals curve, twist and quill, giving the blooms a delightful informality. Like the flowers, the foliage is scaled down in size, but covers the plant well with attractive and healthy leaves that have a dull sheen. The stems are well-armed. There is only a light fragrance but it is warm and sweet with a suggestion of carnations. “Toronto” is a healthy, highly decorative garden plant that is rarely without blooms......

Magazine  (2021)  Page(s) 15. Vol 43, No. 4.  
 
Deane Ross. Mlle Cecile Brunner and her Entourage.....
Maureen Ross' post script 2021:  
More confusion – a rose called Improved Cécile Brunner is found in a few gardens but it is a floribunda initially named Rosy Morn

Newsletter  (May 2012)  Page(s) 21-22.  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "Faux Kin", by Jim Delahanty, pp. 19-25]
‘Improved Cecile Brunner’ was originally and alternatively named ‘Rosy Morn.’ At the time of the publication of Modern Roses III (1947), a Improved Cecile Brunner dispute over the proper rose to be accorded the name of ‘Rosy Morn’ was settled in favor of the ‘Rosy Morn’ produced by Alister Clark in 1914; the Burbage ‘Rosy Morn’ of 1930 was the alternative claimant. (At that time, ‘Rosy Morn,’ an 1878 Bennett offering, was not included in Modern Roses and would not be until Modern Roses IV (1952). By MR IV the question of which roses deserved the name ‘Rosy Morn’ had been muted by removing the statement that the name belonged to the Clark entry and the then four roses with the name ‘Rosy Morn’ were just listed in order of year of introduction with the last being that of the 1948 introduction with the injunction to look at ‘Improved Cecile Brunner.’ Improved Cecile Brunner' was a cross by Carl Duehrsen of Oregon of ‘Dainty Bess’ X Rosa Gigantea Collette ex Crepin.....
‘Improved Cecile Brunner’ is comparable in height to the original ‘Mlle Cecile Brunner’, both rising to about three feet. The blooms of the improved version are an orange salmon or an orange pink but without the candelabra effect of the original. The blooms are double, opening widely to an almost quilled effect, but do not seem to replicate the nearly tea rosebud and opening of the original rose. Fragrance does not seem to be a strong point of either rose. References are made of the resemblance to the original rose, but a side by side comparison does not necessarily produce that comment, as the improved version exhibits more vigor, but the original rose seems more graceful in growth habits. While the bush form of ‘Mlle Cecile Brunner’ is virtually thornless, ‘Improved Cecile Brunner’ possesses ample armature equal to the barbs thrown at it. The Vintage Gardens online catalog suggests that the later rose was selected for the florist trade.

Magazine  (2006)  Page(s) 99. Vol 100, part 3.  
 
Jeff Wyckoff. New Rose Classification.
The following varieties, with their dates of introduction in parentheses, are now classified as Hybrid Giganteas. Improved Cecil Brunner (1948)

Book  (2006)  Page(s) 141.  
 
Improved Cecile Brunner Fl. Rrr / fff / 2  Duehrsen, 1958 [provenance Huntington]  Warm satiny pink with a deeper pink reverse;  flowers in sprays.  A very lovely sweetheart type.  This flower was selected for the florist trade, and is not directly related to Cecile Brunner.

Book  (Aug 2002)  Page(s) 48.  
 
Improved Cecile Brunner
Not rated

Book  (2001)  Page(s) 52.  
 
Improved Cécile Brünner Floribunda, orange pink, 1948. Not rated.

Magazine  (1996)  Page(s) 39. Vol 18, No. 3.  
 
Peter Cox.  Mme. Cecile Brunner and Her Story.
There is another rose, which is a hybrid of ‘Mlle. Cecile Brunner’ and known as Improved Cecile Brunner.  But how can one improve a perfect rose?  It has larger flowers and deeper colouring but is certainly not an improvement.
 

Book  (Nov 1994)  Page(s) 152.  
 
Improved Cécile Brunner Duerhsen (California) 1948. ('Rosy Morn') 'Dainty Bess' x 'Double Gigantea'.Flowers 3 inches across. If breeders think this is the way to get beautiful roses, let them carry on; they may achieve victory some day. But why drag in the name of Cécile Brunner.

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 256.  
 
Improved Cécile Brünner Floribunda, salmon-pink, 1948, ('Rosy Morn'); 'Dainty Bess' x R. gigantea; Duehrsen. Description.