Book  (Jul 1996)  Page(s) 24.  Includes photo(s).
 
Dearest Cluster-flowered bush (Floribunda) Dickson (Northern Ireland) 1960. Description.

Book  (1996)  Page(s) 29.  
 
Dearest Cluster-Flowered (Floribunda)... big clusters of camellia-shaped double light rose pink blooms... 'Spartan' seedling. Alex Dickson (Northern Ireland) 1960, named this for his wife Maud.

Book  (Sep 1993)  Page(s) 141.  Includes photo(s).
 
Dearest Cluster-flowered. Parentage: Unnamed seedling x 'Spartan'. Dickson 1960. Description... the most popular pink Cluster-flowered Rose for years...

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 126.  
 
Dearest Floribunda, rosy salmon-pink, gold stamens, 1960, Seedling x 'Spartan'; Dickson, A. Description.

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 48.  
 
Dearest.  A lovely, soft salmon with a distinct perfume. A tidy rose, free flowering and healthy. ShortIsh. Dickson 1960.

Book  (1968)  Page(s) 60.  
 
Mrs. Heather Rumsey.  The Best Of The Floribundas.   
Pinks in all shadings are plentiful, and most of them are very good. Dearest is one of them. It is a good strong grower with plenty of bloom and the colour is clear and decisive. It has shapely flowers and is good for picking, and is a very useful variety. 

Book  (1966)  Page(s) 23.  
 
Roy and Heather Rumsey: 
.....'Geisha' is paler than 'Dearest', but deeper than 'Pink Chiffon'

Book  (1962)  
 
p14. Roy and Heather Rumsey, NSW. New Roses 
Dearest Floribunda. A charming variety with trusses of smallish perfectly shaped roses of a soft salmon pink. Fragrant and most floriferous. Very good shiny foliage and erect-strong growth.

p20. Dr. A. S. Thomas.   New Roses in Victoria. 
Dearest Florib. (Dickson, 1959) A strong grower with excellent panicles of well-formed, medium sized, soft pink florets. The best of its colour, in my opinion, and well within the best twelve Floribundas - a real advance.

p143.  Hazlewood Nurseries Pty. Ltd. advertisement.  New Roses 1962. 
Dearest (Hyb. poly.) Clear soft rosy salmon.

Book  (1962)  Includes photo(s).
 

p32.  Photo Dearest

p157. Trial Ground Awards 1961
Gold  Medal to Dearest (Flori.). Trial Ground No. 1938. Reg. No. 609. Raiser and Distributor: Alex. Dickson & Sons Ltd., N. Ireland. Seedling x 'Spartan'. Vigour of growth 8.  Habit of growth  bushy with  abundant dark  green foliage, 9. Freedom from disease, 14. Blooms double  (3o petals), 3 1/2 inches across when open, 8. Colour pale geranium lake to pale warm pink, 9. Freedom of flowering 16. General effect, 8. Fragrance, 6. 

Book  (1961)  Page(s) 153.  
 
T. G. Stewart. Victoria. advertisement. 
Roses for 1961.  Dearest