Book  (11 Jun 1993)  Page(s) 67.  
 
R. rugosa x R. x harisonii. Carmen (USA) 1898. Description... the hybridizer was probably hoping for a yellow rugosa... but instead created a double, bright crimson rose with profuse blossoms borne in clusters. Somewhat recurrent.

Book  (1940)  Page(s) 4.  
 
Agnes Emily Carman Hybrid Rugosa. (Carman, 1898.) R. rugosa x 'Harison's Yellow'... bright crimson... profuse June bloom, then scattering

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 128.  
 
Carman, Agnes Emily (hybrid rugosa) Carman 1895 (1929); R. rug. X Harison's Yellow; glossy crimson, large, double, cluster-flowered, floriferous, many prickles, growth 7/10, climbing, 1.50 m., hardy.

Website/Catalog  (1927)  Page(s) 50.  
 
Ironclad Rugosa Roses
Agnes Emily Carman. The most brilliant red Hybrid Rugosa—as red as General Jacqueminot. Flowers are large, cupped and delightfully fragrant. Recurrent in bloom. It is vigorous and bushy but shows little of the Rugosa influence in the foliage. $1 each.

Book  (1918)  Page(s) Vol. IV, p. 332.  
 
...With the assistance of his wife, Mr. Carman hybridized the Rosa rugosa...with the Harrison's yellow, a rose of great fragrance and a delicate foliage. The resulting flower he named in honor of his wife, Agnes Emily Carman. Out of six hundred plants from this crossing the Agnes Emily Carman was the only one worth preserving. It has the strong, healthy, vigorous foliage of the Rosa Rugosa and a very fragrant flower like a semi-double Jacqueminot rose.

Book  (1906)  Page(s) 152.  
 
Mabel Osgood Wright 
Agnes Emily Carman. Flowers in clusters, "Jacqueminot" red, with long-fringed golden stamens. Continuous bloomer. Hardy and perfect.

Magazine  (4 May 1901)  Page(s) 326.  
 
The late Mr. Carman, of the Rural New-Yorker, next produced the popular Agnes Emily Carman, by crossing the common pink Rugosa with Harrison's Yellow. The unexpected result was a large double brilliant crimson bloom of much the shade of Gen. Jacqueminot. The plant is particularly rugged and hardy, and the foliage really exceeds the typical Rugosa in beauty. It blooms very freely, and continues almost all Summer. --W. V. F. [Walter Van Fleet]

Magazine  (1896)  Page(s) 2.  
 
Rosa rugosa AGNES EMILY CORMAN, — Le Gardening nous rapporte qu'un nouvel hybride de Rosa Rugosa, vient d'être obtenu à Chicago. Le fleur de ce rosier qui est désigné sous la nom de Agnes Emily Corman, est demi-pleine, rouge vif absolument comme le Général Jacqueminot. Le bouton est très beau, allongé, mais perd un peu de son éclat lors du complet épanouissement. Le feuillage et le mode de végétation sont les mêmes que ceux du Rugosa. L'arbuste est très rustique et a supporté très bien un hiver assez rigoureux.

Magazine  (2 Nov 1895)  Page(s) 731.  
 
The Agnes Emily Carman Rose.— Next year, we shall hope to hear from many of our subscribers regarding the general deportment of this rose. Here is the opinion of Mr. E. G. Fowler, one of the editors of the Orange County Farmer : Specimens of this new rose received from the Storrs & Harrison Co., of Painesville, O., planted last spring, have given us great satisfaction. The roses, of which we had quite a number, are very pretty, indeed, but to us the foliage is equally attractive, vivid green, hardy in texture, and seeming able to resist all sorts of weather, and to repel all insect attacks. When our other roses were calling for all our vigilance to save them from perishing from the ravages of the aphis, not one was seen on the Agnes Emily Carman. It is, withal, a vigorous grower. It is, as most of our readers doubtless know, a cross between the Japanese Rosa rugosa and the old Harison’s Yellow, and is the handiwork of the lady whose name it bears. If Mr. Fowler had occasion to admire the foliage of plants “received last spring,” he will have more occasion to do so next summer, and still more the summer thereafter, as the leaflets do not grow to their largest size until the third season. The hardiness of this variety may be judged when we say that, though the mercury fell last winter to 24 degrees below zero, not a bud on either of our plants was harmed. The stems of the Georges Bruant, reported as hardy in Rochester, were killed nearly to the ground.

Magazine  (13 Jul 1895)  Page(s) 475.  
 
"Agnes Emily Carman Rose. — We have two nice bushes of it in full bloom, and they are distinct and pretty. It is a rugosa hybrid, with strong rugosa marks as regards foliage and earliness ; the blossoms are semi-double, Jacqueminot crimson and pretty in the bud, but not so attractive when open. It must be a very hardy rose, for it survived last winter entirely unprotected, and without the least injury so far as we can see.”