Star Roses – The Conard-Pyle Co. (1935) p. 20
VIRGINIA. New. (Conard-Pyle Co., fall, 1934.) Hybridized here by J. H. Nicolas. C. Flame-color. Flowers enormous, equal to Spanish Beauty in form and shape, with perfume like red raspberries. Scarlet-rose or flame-color does not do justice to its brilliance. G. A. Stevens, Secretary of The American Rose Society, and Author of “Climbing Roses,” said, “This is the most magnificent Climbing Rose I have found anywhere.” $1.50 each.

A Rose Odyssey (1937) J. H. Nicolas
Some of us old timers may remember an early Van Fleet Hybrid Tea, Magnafrano (1900). For years it was sold on its own roots and it remained a typical Hybrid Tea. I budded it on Multiflora for breeding purposes and I got plants of Druschki exuberance, thus emphasizing its seed parent, Magna Charta. It is from one of these plants that I bred the climber Virginia.