[From an advertisement in the
American Rose Annual 1926, p. x-xi:] Bobbink & Atkins grew hundreds of thousands of plants of more than a thousand varieties of roses. Their ad features
'Star of Persia' and Seven Irish Single Roses which are pictured and numbered but not identified...
[From the American Rose Annual 1945, pp. 225-226:] Bobbink & Atkins Company, East Rutherford, New Jersey.
[From the American Rose Annual 1950, p. 187:] Bobbink & Atkins, East Rutherford, New Jersey. Abbreviation = B&A
[From the American Rose Annual 1951, photo and text opposite page 8:] Lambertus C. Bobbink (1886-1950). Nationally known Nurseryman and Rosarian. Came to the United States from The Netherlands, 1895, and established with Frederick L. Atkins the firm of Bobbink & Atkins, 1898. Awarded the American Rose Society Gold Honor Medal for Achievement and Service to the Rose, 1945.
Also listed in the American Rose Annual 1952.
