Magazine  (2019)  Page(s) 49. Vol 41, No. 1.  
 
Margaret Furness.  Tea, Noisette and China Mislabels in Australia.
Roses distributed here as Mistress Bosanquet or “Dunoon” are Homère.

Book  (Sep 1993)  Page(s) 218.  Includes photo(s).
 
Homère ('The Cape Buttonhole Rose') Tea. Moreau & Robert 1858. Description... the hardiest of the Teas.. blends of cream and rose-pink, ruffled petals, fine fragrance...

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 248.  
 
Homère Tea, pink, center flesh-white, 1858, Robert et Moreau. Description.

Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 47.  
 
Homère Tea. Robert et Moreau, 1858. Possibly a seedling of 'David Pradel'. [Author cites information from different sources.]

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 20.  
 

Homere (Tea) One of the more hardy early tea roses. Shapely, cupped, soft pink flowers with white centres. “Rare”. 1858. (C) 3 x 3’.

Magazine  (1973)  Page(s) 31.  
 
An outstanding example of an old rose is the plant of the Tea rose 'Homere', growing on a wall of Staplefield Church, Sussex (just off the Handcross-Cuckfield Road). This was fully described in the 1940 Rose Annual, with photographs. The circumference of the main stem at the junction with the stock was 26 in, and it is understood that the specimen is still flourishing. As it was planted about 1862, it must now be 111 years old.

Book  (1962)  Page(s) 82-3.  Includes photo(s).
 
A chance perusal of the Rose Annual for 1940 drew my attention to an article "An Old Rose" which appears there with four photographic illustrations. It is the tea rose 'Homere' growing up the wall of the church of St. Mark at Staplefield in Sussex. As it happened, I was in Sussex at the time—last September (1960)—and I decided to make a pilgrimage to see this remarkable rose which, according to the information given in that article, must now be a hundred years old. I was well rewarded because, although there is perhaps a little less of it now than is indicated by the pictures of twenty years ago, it still seems in good heart and was blooming profusely. So much so, in fact, that I was tempted to suggest that a dozen blooms or so might form a special exhibit at the Autumn Show! However, there hardly seemed time to arrange that and, in any case, perhaps it would make an even more impressive display in June.
The day on which I visited this gnarled old tree of 'Homere' was rather cold and dreary, like so many last summer, and I missed a good deal of the tea fragrance I expected to sense. No doubt a warm day would have brought that out. But the delicate pink of the bloom with its darker pink frilly edging, certainly give this rose a delightful old-world atmosphere. The anonymous writer in the 1940 Annual gives the date 1859 for the introduction of 'Homere' by Robert et Moreau and thinks the Staplefield tree may have been planted about 1862. Later authorities, however, date the introduction 1858.
On a later visit to Staplefield, when the photograph facing page 28 was taken, I got the impression that the old tree is somewhat in decline. The writer of the article in the 1940 Annual said that at one time the rose reached "right up to the guttering", but his picture already shows a considerable retreat from these heights. A comparison with the present photograph and the one taken in 1939 shows considerable further shrinkage, and another photograph showing the union of rose with stock at that time makes it clear that, here too, 'Homere' is now in a much more vulnerable state. The vicar (the Rev. E. F. Hollobon), to whom I am grateful for allowing me to photograph the tree, showed concern about the rate at which rotting was taking place just above ground-level. Probably the best one hundredth birthday tribute to this particular ‘Homere' would be to start another century by budding on fresh stock. It would surely be a pity if a severe winter were to deprive Staplefield of its 'Homere' altogether.
From Two Old Rose Trees by Stewart Deas.

The photograph accompanying this article can be seen in the photo gallery -  uploaded by Patricia Routley in July 2011.
 

Article (misc)  (1960)  Page(s) 109.  
 
Homere No hips. Triploid.

Article (misc)  (1954)  Page(s) 38.  
 
Homère 21 chromosomes.

Book  (1944)  Page(s) 71-5.  
 
from article: THE GOOD FORGOTTEN TEA ROSES By FRANCIS E. LESTER, Watsonville, California

In the high Sierras, where winter temperatures may go to zero or below, I have found many an old Tea rose flourishing in bold defiance of the claim that it is tender. James Sprunt and Hermosa, Marie van Houtte, Catherine Mermet, Belle Siebrecht, Old Blush and Homere were among these, and that radiant red Climber, Reine Marie Henriette.