Article (newsletter)  (Aug 2013)  Page(s) 5.  
 
In 1888 Jackson Thornton Dawson (1841-1916) produced the first Rosa multiflora hybrid rose in the United States. He would become the second rose breeder in the world to use another species, R. wichurana. That multiflora, named ‘Dawson’, is a strong climber with clusters of fragrant, double, dainty, pink blossoms still grown today. Not cold, nor disease, nor neglect trouble this plant

Book  (2000)  Page(s) 194.  
 
‘Dawson’/’The Dawson Rose’ = …petites fleurs rose vif, odorantes et doubles, réunies en bouquets de 10 à 20 corolles, sur de longs rameaux flexibles. Capable de s’élever à 8m, de survivre aux pires gelées et à toutes les négligences, ce rosier peut fleurir un grand arbre… Dawson, US, 1888. General Jacqueminot x Rosa multiflora.

Book  (Dec 1998)  Page(s) 194.  
 
Dawson ('The Dawson Rose') Rambler. Jackson Dawson (USA) 1888. 'Général Jacqueminot' x Rosa multiflora... [Jackson Dawson] was attempting to create hardiness in ramblers, and this was his greatest success;it was the first multiflora hybrid produced in the USA... impervious to frost and neglect...

Book  (1994)  Page(s) 4.  
 
[One of the 65 climbing roses Stephen Scanniello describes in detail in his book and that grows in the Cranford Rose Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. There are several pages devoted to this rose, including its history, cultivation, and a photograph. Here are some highlights, but please refer to the book for more details.]

The first multiflora hybrid produced in the United States… created in 1888 by Jackson Dawson at the Arnold Arboretum in Massachusetts.

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 125.  
 
Hybrid multiflora, medium pink, 1888, R. multiflora x 'Général Jacqueminot'; Dawson; Strong. Flowers bright rose-pink, double, small blooms in clusters of 10-20; vigorous (10-25 ft.) growth.

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

Book  (1937)  Page(s) 69.  
 
Dawsoniana Hort. (multiflora x borboniana) [ploidy] 14

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 195.  
 
Dawson Rose (multiflora) Dawson 1888; R. multiflora X Gén. Jacqueminot; bright light pink, golden stamens, small, double, in clusters of 10-20, floriferous, free-blooming, June-bloom, glossy green finely feathered foliage, growth 7/10, climbing. = R. Dawsoniana hort. Sangerhausen

Book  (1930)  Page(s) 394.  
 
Dawson. (Dawson 1893.) Bloome 4 cm across, weakly semi-double, vivid pink, in abundant trusses. Vigorous shrub, extraordinarily floriferous in June-July.

Book  (1928)  Page(s) 128-129.  
 
Jackson Dawson, for a lifetime and until his death the gardener and propagator at the famous Arnold Arboretum, near Boston, first considered the value of Rosa multiflora and R. wichuraiana as parents... [he] successfully produced (in 1888) the yet [McFarland was writing in 1929] greatly admired 'Dawson' climber. He sent out 'Lady Duncan' as probably the first Wichuraiana hybrid, and his lovely 'Wm. C. Egan' in the same year united Wichuraiana and 'General Jacqueminot'. His little-known 'Sargent' rose, described by those who have it as a glorified apple-blossom, united both multiflora and Wichuraiana with the Hybrid Perpetual blood.