(1895)  Page(s) 118.  
 
Large Flowers, Brilliant Pink Color, Fragrant and Prolific Bloomer.
MESSRS. SIEBRECHT & WADLEY;;
Sirs._ After careful examination and observation of your new Rose, "Belle Siebrecht," I consider it the best all around pink Rose ever introduced. It is not only a grand forcing Rose, but is also a capital ever-blooming hardy Rose: I consider it as hardy as a Jack, and I think it is certainly the Rose for the millions.
(Signed) DONALD MATHESON, Head Gardener, William Walter Phelps' Est., Englewood, N. J.

(13 Oct 1897)  Page(s) 408.  
 
A few specimens of the new rose, Dean Hole, have been on exhibition in the show-window of W. H. Brower & Sons, on Broadway, within the past week. These partly-opened firm buds suggest flowers of large size when fully grown. The Dean Hole rose differs from the cream-tinted President Carnot, which pales under gaslight, in that its rich shell-pink petals are particularly beautiful in artificial light. For this reason it is likely to be in special demand for dinner decorations, and it is expected that the supply will be large enough this winter to provide some of the smaller flowers for this use. The stems are strong and the foliage is luxuriant and pleasing. This rose was first shown two years ago at the dinner given in honor of Dean Hole in this city.

(21 Jan 1891)  Page(s) 32.  
 
Dr. GRILL (TEA).—This is a comparatively new Rose (1888, I believe), and must be classed among tender Teas until a more complete trial out-of-doors shall entitle it to a better position. For the conservatory it is a most beautiful variety, the color being coppery yellow, with rosy reverse shadings. The outer petals are large and shell-shaped, and enclose a full double centre of short petals of a very brilliant colour. It is a strong, free grower.
E. G. Hill. Richmond, Ind. 

(19 Aug 1891)  Page(s) 391. Vol 4.  
 
Among the newer Roses we find still another Duchess that is very highly recommended, namely, 'Duchess of Leeds', a Hybrid Perpetual, described as a "highly colored La France", but said to be quite distinct from Duchess of Albany.

(19 Aug 1891)  Page(s) 391, Vol 4.  
 
Among the newer Roses we find still another Duchess that is very highly recommended, namely, Duchess of Leeds, a Hybrid Perpetual, described as a "highly colored La France", but said to be quite distinct from 'Duchess of Albany'. It is claimed for this Rose, too, that it lasts well when cut; but as this new-comer has not yet been tested to any extent in this country it is too soon to pass upon its merits.

(17 Jul 1889)  Page(s) 347.  
 
It was my good fortune to be one of a small party who visited these well-appointed grounds last week upon the invitation of Mr. Dana ....The Rose season was over, but the pink, ever-blooming Bourbon Rose, Mrs. Degraw, was loaded with flowers, and it was pronounced by both Mr. Dana and Mr. Falconer the best garden Rose in the entire collection. 

(1897)  Page(s) 260.  
 
The latest of Mr. W. A. Manda's hybrid Roses to bloom is a seedling from Rosa Wichuraiana fertilized with the crimson Tea Rose Meteor. The flower is a light pink, very double, and the plant is a strong grower, prostrate in habit and with foliage which remained green all winter and stood out-of-doors without any protection.

(13 Feb 1889)  
 
Rosa humilis,* var. triloba. ROSA HUMILIS, Marshall, Arbust. Amer., 136. R. lucida of Gray's Manual, Wood. etc., in part.
This pretty freak of our common low Wild Rose was detected by Miss Jennie K Whitesides, of Harmonsburg, Pennsylvania. in 1881, growing upon a sandy bank near that place, whence it was transferred to her garden. Since June, 1886, it has been in cultivation at the Botanic Garden at Cambridge, where it has for three years perpetuated the abnormal character of its petals. Aside from the interest which attaches to it on this account, the figure is also of value as illustrating very clearly the characters which distinguish Rosa humilis from other eastern species. The slender habit, the open foliation, the very slender, straight spines, the narrow stipules, and the nearly constant and often free toothing of the outer sepals, are characteristic of this species. In this form it is found in the dry, sandy or rocky localities which it prefers, from New England to the Mississippi and southward to the Gulf States. As in all the species of the group, the pedicels, hip and calyx-lobes are more or less glandular-hispid. And like every other Rose, it is subject to variation. When growing in wetter localities it may be somewhat stouter in habit, the spines thicker at base, the stipules more foliaceous, and, ot course, there may be found anywhere specimens or young shoots with enough of scattered prickles. But it never takes on the taller, stout and bushy growth, and the broadbased, recurved spines of the northern R. lucida, nor the peculiar foliage and densely prickly covering throughout of the R. nitida of New England swamps. S. W. [Rosa humilis, next to Rosa Caroliniana, is the most common Rose in the elevated mountain region of Virginia, eastern Tennessee and Carolina. Here, unlike our other Roses, which frequent open situations, it is found growing only in the shade of the forest, generally on steep slopes, and usually in very rich soil. As it appears growing in such situations it is one of the most distinct of all the American Roses, with its very slender stems, sparse, open foliage, and few long, slender spines. C. S. S.]

(1890)  Page(s) 100, 101.  Includes photo(s).
 
New or Little Known Plants. Rosa foliolosa. The Prairie Rose of the south-west is one of the more distinctly marked species of the genus as represented in America. It habit it is low, rarely more than a foot in height, spreading by running root-stocks and forming clumps. The stems are slender and leafy, often unarmed; the spines, when present, mostly slender and straight or nearly so. The leaves are nearly or quite glabrous, pale green and shining above, of seven to eleven small, narrow leaflets, which are acute at both ends...and simply toothed. The narrow stipules are usually glandular-ciliate,and the stalk of the leaf prickly. The rather large flowers are bright pink and very fragrant, almost always solitary and on quite short pedicels. The depressed-globose hip and the sepals are glandular-hispid....This little Rose was first collected by Thomas Nuttall during his early visit to Arkansas in 1818-20, but was not published until twenty years afterward, when it was described in Torrey and Gray's "Flora of North America" (vol. k., p. 460). Meantime it had been found by Berlandier and Drummond in Texas, and by other collectors. It appears to be confined to the prairie region of Arkansas, the Indian Territory, and northern and central Texas. A nearly allied species (R. Mexicana) , found by Dr. Palmer in the mountains of Coahuila, Mexico, is the only species known to be native in Mexico proper. The accompanying figure, on page 101, was drawn by Mr. Faxon from a specimen cultivated at the Arnodl Arboretum. S. W.[Sereno Watson]

(1988)  Page(s) 449-450.  Includes photo(s).
 
New or Little Known Plants. Rosa Nutkana. The most showy of our western Roses, as well as the most clearly defined, with the exception of the delicate Rosa gymnocarpa, is the Nutka Rose. It has the largest flowers and the largest fruit of any of our species, and its armature is liable to become on occasion the most formidable. It is frequent along the Pacific coast from the Alaskan peninsula to the Columbia River, where it was first collected by Menzies upon Vancouver's visit to that region, and somewhat later by Haenke at Nutka Sound. It ranges eastward from the coast through the mountains near the boundary of north-western Montana, and thence southward into Utah. It is rather stout in its habit and with rather broad foliage, very rarely nearly spineless, usually armed with broad, flat spines at the base of the leaves, and occasionally, especially the young shoots, with scattered prickles. The spines are either straight or recurved, and sometimes they become larger even than they are represented in our figure, and very numerous. As usual in our Roses, the pubescence is very variable, the leaves being either perfectly glabrous and bright green, or softly pubescent, and very frequently resinous-puberulent, in which case, as in other species, the teeth are usually also glandular-serrulate. The inflorescence is ordinarily wholly smooth , hispidness occurring but rarely on either the pedicels or any part of the flower. As in all the other species of that region, in distinction from most of those of the Rocky Mountains and the East, the sepals never have lateral appendages or lobes. The fruit is globose or somewhat depressed, of a bright scarlet, and often over half an inch in diameter. Our figure has been drawn by Mr. Faxon from a plant grown at the Arnold Arboretum. S.W. [Sereno Watson]