Website/Catalog  (18 Feb 2016)  
 
Registered Name: 'Margaret Dickson'
ARS Approved Exhibition Name: Margaret Dickson
HP, w, 1891, Dickson, A.; flowers white, center pale flesh, well-formed, large, 65 petals, cupped, slight fragrance; occasionally recurrent bloom; foliage dark; vigorous growth
[Lady Mary Fitzwilliam × Merveille de Lyon]

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 355.  
 
Margaret Dickson Hybrid Perpetual, white, center pale flesh, 1891, 'Lady Mary Fitzwilliam' x 'Merveille de Lyon'; Dickson, A. Description.

Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 141.  
 
Margaret Dickson
Hybrid Perpetual
A. Dickson 1891
... white, with pale flesh centres... blush-white flowers... a poor autumnal... thorns... liable to mildew... should not be too closely pruned...

Book  (1974)  Page(s) 77.  
 
Through the century there have been other white roses with good selling names - there was Margaret Dickson from the Irish growers but this one would not grow away from home.

Book  (1958)  Page(s) 219.  
 
Margaret Dickson HT. (A. Dickson, 1891). 'Lady Mary Fitzwilliam' x 'Merveille de Lyon'. Large, dbl. (65 petals), well formed, cupped, slightly fragrant, white, center pale flesh. Fol. dark. very vig.; occasional recurrent bloom. (28)

[Note. This is the first time Modern Roses listed a parentage for 'Margaret Dickson']

Website/Catalog  (1938)  Page(s) 30.  
 
Bush Roses
Margaret Dickson (Hybrid Perpetual) By Dicksons of Hawlmark, 1891... White and pale flesh. Fine form. Faint perfumed. Gold Medal, N.R.S.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 209.  
 
Dickson, Margaret (HP) A. Dickson 1892; Merv. de Lyon X L. M. Fitzwilliam; white, center soft flesh-coloured, large, double, cup form, bell-form, many prickles, growth 7/10. Sangerhausen

Book  (1934)  
 
Margaret Dickson (H.P.): Flower white, with pale flesh centre, large, full. Growth vigorous, erect. A. Cut. Exh.

Website/Catalog  (1932)  Page(s) 35.  
 
Margaret Dickson (A. Dickson & Sons, 1891). White with pale rosy center, well shaped, and faintly fragrant. Plant large; foliage good. One of the best light-colored Hybrid Perpetuals, but it seldom blooms in autumn.

Book  (1932)  Page(s) 69.  
 
H. R. Darlington. The Gold Medal Roses 1883-1918
The Gold Medal Roses that followed need not detain us; they were mostly H.P.s which have disappeared except in memory. 'Sir Rowland Hill' (HP); 'Souvenir de S. A. Prince (T), a white sport from 'Souvenir d'un Ami'; 'Mrs. Paul' (a bourbon); 'Salamander' (HP); Margaret Dickson (HP), a fine grower of creamy white colour which allways seemed on the point of making a magnificent flower on its strong stems, a promise that seldom was made good....