Magazine  (5 Jun 1880)  Page(s) vol 17, p. 503.  
 
As your great Rosarian has said, we now make our bow, not to Catherine Mermet, but to an American lady who has earned a wide reputation for her grand productions. This was Mrs. N. Herbemont, of Columbia, S.C., who raised, about 1830, the once famous Herbemont Musk Cluster and Herbemont's Grandiflora, the parents on one side of Mr. Feast's and Mr. Pierce's Prairies, and without which, perhaps, we should never have had those grand acquisitions. They were, up to within a few years, most extensively cultivated at the South, where they grew 8 ft. to 10 ft. high, and often produced seventy-five or more flowers in one cluster, deliciously fragrant. This lady also raised a very large white Rose, very double, tall grower, and perpetual bloomer, but it could not be propagated, so it was said. 

Magazine  (1837)  Page(s) 248.  
 
They were raised from seed by a much respected lady of South Carolina, now deceased, who did me the great favor of sending them to me, and for which favor I cannot be sufficiently grateful to her memory. One is the Herbemonti grandiflora, a very tall growing plant, deep rich pink flowers, double, and exquisitely beautiful. The only fault with it is the simultaneous opening of nearly all the buds, thus producing a mass of bloom, covering the plant from top to bottom, (it is seven feet high,) and thus making the time of its flowering short, only about ten days: it is evidently a hybrid.