From Gardening Illustrated, vol. 24, 1902, p. 501, where I am happy to report we learn its parentage at last: "This, which was awarded the Gold Medal of the National Rose Society at the Temple Show in 1901, is said to be a seedling from ‘Papa Gontier’ crossed with ‘Isabella Sprunt’. It somewhat resembles the former in smoothness of petal, and there is a yellow shade at the base of the deep coloured petals that it probably takes from the other parent."
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From Gardening Illustrated, vol. 24, 1902, p. 501, where I am happy to report we learn its parentage at last: "This, which was awarded the Gold Medal of the National Rose Society at the Temple Show in 1901, is said to be a seedling from ‘Papa Gontier’ crossed with ‘Isabella Sprunt’. It somewhat resembles the former in smoothness of petal, and there is a yellow shade at the base of the deep coloured petals that it probably takes from the other parent."