(1902)  Page(s) 773.  
 
As to varieties, American Beauty stands first on the list. Its cerise color is too well known to need anything more than a passing mention here. ..For special purposes, flowers with stems eight feet have been cut...This Rose may be bought all the way from one dollar to twenty-five dollars per dozen...The origin of American Beauty Rose is in doubt. A claim is made that it was discovered in the garden of the late historian George Bancroft, at Washington, D.C....It was the gardener for Mr. Bancoft who discovered it first, but whether he thought he could see.that it possessed a possible forcing quality or whether by accident it was found out, has not to my knolwedge been placed on record. ..more area under glass is devoted to its culture for the large cities, as Philadelphia, New York, Chicago and Boston, than all the other varieties of winter forcing varieties combined...Rose houses 750 feet long and 25 feet wide have beeen built within the past two year, in which...only American Beauty Roses are grown.

When the American Beauty received so much attention in the American horticultural magainzes, the European horticulturalist naturally became interested...In due course these plants flowered, and thereupon a French nurseryman recognized in it an old variety by the name of Mme. Ferdinand Jamin and duly spread the information broadcast in all languages where advanced horticulture is known. This, as a consequence, temporarily at least, gave American nurserymen a bad name--that of renaming an old variety and redisseminating the same, thus causing much confusion in Rose nomenclature....it was purely unintentional. Besides, if it is in any way consoling, the European distributors of novelties have been guilty of the same kind of "slips"...

(1902)  Page(s) 776.  
 
From the "Perls" [Perle des Jardins] quite a number of sports have originated. The first was "Sunset".....Another sport came from Canada, but this i am inclined to think sported from Sunset and was called Lady Dorothea; the coloring was more intense in [Lady Dorothea] than in [Sunset.]

(1907)  Page(s) 295. Issue 13. (1908).  
 
Report of the Committee on Floriculture
Edwin Lonsdale, Chairman
Still another seedling rose raised in Pennsylvania that promises to make good, and which first saw and flourished in the bright sunlight in the good city of Philadelphia has been honored by the name of the Superintendent of the United States Botanic Gardens at Washington, D. C, namely William R. Smith. This is the result of a Cross between Maman Cochet and Madame Hosbe.[sic] The latter, which I believe was the pollen parent, was grown quite largely for the production of cut blooms in winter, and is grown to some extent at the present time, as it is a free bloomer and possesses the ideal shape in the bud form, and by liberal treatment the flowers may be grown to quite a large size, but its coloring was not considered sufficiently decided to become popular as a commercial cut flower; it is a creamy white; had it been a bright yellow similar to the Marechal Neil or Perle des Jardins, it would be grown quite extensively to-day. While the seed or pistilate parent, Maman Cochet, is recognized for growing outdoors as the Queen of pink garden roses, and where the tea scented roses are hardy, this variety is found to be the hardiest of the hardy. The progeny of this good pair of roses, the William R. Smith, was discarded by its raiser for winter blooming as not being bright enough in coloring during the dull winter months, but a firm of florists in the State of Indiana claim to be very much encouraged with some experiments they are making with it and are hopeful that they will succeed in developing it into a valuable winter bloomer. It has already proven its worth as a garden rose. Should it prove to be valuable for winter forcing, it will be another lesson taught, which is: not to be too hasty in condemnation, for it is a well-known fact that at the present time the very popular Irish rose, Killarney, when it first came out was by more than one firm of rose growers in the vicinity of Philadelphia, put aside as being too flimsy in its petalage. It is now very largely grown, being a very beautiful shade of delicate pink in color, and the buds are exquisitely graceful in form.