Newsletter  (May 2018)  Page(s) 12.  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "Roses of Walter van Fleet", by Connie Hilker, pp. 8-12]
Nick Weber offered cuttings of a rose in his garden that he believed to be ‘Bess Lovett’, collected twenty-or-more years before from the USDA blackspot trial grounds in Beltsville, Maryland. “Pink Van Fleet”, which is how the rose was listed in the facility’s records, appears to be a good match for ‘Bess Lovett’, based on old descriptions.

Book  (1958)  Page(s) 30.  
 
Bess Lovett. LR. (Van Fleet; int. J. T. Lovett, '15.) Dbl., cupped, well formed, fragrant, light red; cluster. Fol. glossy, dark. Vig. cl.; very free bloom.

Website/Catalog  (1946)  Page(s) 34.  
 
W[ichuraiana]. — BESS LEVETT. Fleurs moyennes beau rose pur.

[no longer listed in 1956]

Book  (1940)  Page(s) 19.  
 
Bess Lovett Large-flowered Climber. (Van Fleet; introduced by Lovett, 1915)... light red... profuse seasonal bloom...

Website/Catalog  (1938)  Page(s) 13.  
 
Rosa Wichurana. Bess Lovett (Dr. W. v. Fleet 05). Pure glossy red, magnificent bright colouring, blooms large in enormous trusses, late-blooming, lasting, healthy.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 430.  
 
Lovett, Bess (hybrid wichurana) Dr. van Fleet 1905 (Lovett 1915), glossy carmine-red, medium size, double, cup form, fine form, lasting, fragrance 7/10, floriferous, long-blooming, growth 8/10, climbing, 3 m. Sangerhausen

Website/Catalog  (1929)  Page(s) 47.  
 
Hardy Climbing Roses
Bess Lovett. Hybrid Wichuraiana. (Dr. W. Van Fleet, 1905.) Large, fairly full flowers of light crimson-red, cup-shaped, and borne in long-stemmed clusters suitable for cutting; sweetly fragrant. Plant very strong, exceedingly free flowering, with fine, glossy foliage almost immune to diseases.
Midseason. Probably the best of the red climbers, with flowers of Hybrid Tea size. Better habits than Climbing American Beauty but totally unlike it in color and form. 75 cts. each.

Website/Catalog  (1928)  Page(s) 26.  
 
Climbers.
Bess Lovett. Hybrid Wichuraiana. (Dr. W. Van Fleet, 1905.) One of the best Roses by Dr. W. Van Fleet. Produces many large and fragrant flowers of clear, bright crimson, double, full, cupped, and of lasting quality. Though resembling Climbing American Beauty, it is much superior to that variety by reason of its brighter color and its habit of not holding its dead blooms.

Book  (1926)  Page(s) v.  
 
According to an advertisement for Lovett's Nursery, this rose was one of three named for the Remarkable Lovett Sisters, Alida, Bess, and Mary... the color of the bloom is described as a warm-hearted red...

Book  (1925)  Page(s) 152.  Includes photo(s).
 
Plate XIII. the Van Fleet Wichuraiana Hybrid 'Bess Lovett', as growing at 'Breeze Hill', the Editor's garden.