Newsletter  (Feb 2017)  Page(s) 14.  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "Advancing Roses: The Reverend D'Ombrain", by Darrell g.h. Schramm, pp. 11-14]
One late summer day, Gregg Lowery presented me with a rose. The gesture was so unexpected, the rose so beautiful, its perfume so magnificent that the flower is etched into my mind. The rose was ‘Reverend H. D’Ombrain’. Bred by Jacques-Julien Margottin in 1863, a seedling of ‘Louise Odier’ crossed with ‘General Jacqueminot’, it grows on a compact bush, bearing large, double Bourbon roses. The outer rim of petals are light or silvery pink, the next circumference of petals is of a lilac or mauvish pink, and the wide central circle of petals are carmine or soft red; to me the rose conveys the overall impression of being almost lavender. The fact is that colors are not a precise description. Just as colors of the spectrum meld into one another without a clear demarcation, so too the coloration of any rose more than one solid color.

Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 102.  
 
Rev. H. d'Ombrain Bourbon. Margottin 1863. The author cites information from different sources... silvery carmine red... Bright pink, carmine center...

Book  (1985)  Page(s) 26.  
 
the Reverend H. Honywood D'Ombrain [a driving force behind the establishment of the National Rose Society, later known as the Royal National Rose Society] was [the Society's] first Secretary...

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 525.  
 
d'Ombrain, Rev. (bourbon) Margottin 1863; bright pink, center carmine, large double, growth 7/10, climbing.

Book  (1906)  Page(s) 146.  
 
9.446. Reverend d'Ombrain, Ile-Bourbon, Margottin 1863 carmin

Book  (1899)  Page(s) 155.  
 
Reverend H. Dombrain, Bourbon, Margottin, 1863, carmin

Magazine  (1 Jun 1892)  Page(s) 84.  
 
NÉCROLOGIE. Mort de Margottin, Jacques-Julien.
Margottin a obtenu les gains suivants:
Ile Bourbon. 1863. Révérend d'Ombrain.

Book  (1888)  Page(s) 188.  
 
Rev. H. Dombrain H. B. Margottin 1963 brilliant red Size 1 [relative size of the flower] vig.

Book  (1882)  Page(s) 32.  
 
Rev. H. Dombrain... Bourbon Hybride. Margottin. 1863 Rouge brillant. Fleur grande. Plante vigoureuse.

Book  (1880)  Page(s) Annex, p. 116.  
 
Bourbon. REVEREND H. DOMBRAIN (Margottin), glossy pink, center carmin, large, full, very beautiful.