Website/Catalog  (27 Jul 2011)  
 
Rosa ‘Lord Palmerston’
Classified by Paul as a Bourbon Perpetual.  ‘Lord Palmerston’ has medium-sized, cherry red flowers, cupped in shape on a moderate-sized shrub.  Paul describes it as a very sweet and distinct, free-flowering rose.  He reports that it was illustrated in the Rose Annual of 1858-9.  [Paul (1863, 1888), FS p.100 vol.15/1864)].
 
 Horticultural & Botanical History
Introduced by Margottin in 1857.  
  
History at Camden Park
Arrived from Veitch’s Nursery, Chelsea on Dec, 31st, 1859 on board the ‘Hollinside’ but dead on arrival.  For more detail see Rosa ‘Ducher’.

Book  (Dec 2000)  Page(s) 330.  
 
Lord Palmerston
Hybrid Perpetual
[Jacques-Julien] Margottin père 1857

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 537.  
 
Palmerston, Lord (HP) Margottin 1857; transparent pink, medium size, double, growth 8/10.

Book  (1906)  Page(s) 91.  
 
5.904. Lord Palmerston, Hybride Remontant, Margottin 1857 rose

Magazine  (1 Jun 1892)  Page(s) 84.  
 
NÉCROLOGIE. Mort de Margottin, Jacques-Julien.
Margottin a obtenu les gains suivants:
Hybrides remontants. 1857. Lord Palmerston.

Book  (1882)  Page(s) 17.  
 
Lord Palmerston... Hybride Perpétuel. Margottin. 1857 Rose carminé. Fleur moyenne. Plante moyenne.

Website/Catalog  (1880)  Page(s) 24.  
 
Rosai Ibridi Rifiorenti
43 Lord Palmerston

Website/Catalog  (1875)  Page(s) 5.  
 
76 Lord Palmerston, rouge groseille.

Book  (1874)  Page(s) 122.  
 
NOMENCLATURE DES VARIÉTÉS MODERNES.
Rosiers hybrides remontants.
Lord Palmerston, fleur moyenne, pleine, rouge écarlate.

Book  (1863)  Page(s) 105-6.  
 
The Hybrid Perpetual Rose. (Rosier Hybride Remontante.)
Carmine and Cherry-coloured.
The Duke of Cambridge, Lord Palmerston, Le Ville de St. Denis, Madame Heraud, Madame Furtado- a perfect pattern of elegance in shape- and Madame Charles Crapelet, are the 'crème de la crème' of this group, and no roses can be more charming; they all, or nearly all, have an intensity of rose colour, if the expression may be used, which is of all colours the most pleasing; for do we not say ' the rosy morn,' the rosy hues of life, and employ many other expressions, all denoting the invariable charm of this most delightful of all tints?