This b&w photo was "Photographed on the trial grounds of E., D., Smith & Sons, Winona, Ont., Canada" and is from the book Rose Garden Primer,1930.

Other references about 'Agnes':

1. Rose Garden Primer,1930. "Considered the best of all the hybrid Rugosas. It is amber-yellow in color, fragrant to a marked degree and of ironclad hardiness." "Yellow, double, fragrant."
   
   
2. Roses of the World in Color, 1947. "Truly American was the union that gave us in Agnes, HRug. (Saunders; int. Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Can., 1922), a combination of Rugosa and Persian Yellow. Beautiful in bud and flower, and introducing a new color in the Rugosas, this fragrant deep amber rose, coming on a tall and vigorous plant in June and July, was given the Van Fleet Gold Medal in 1926. Wrinkled, grayish foliage distinguishes it."
   
   
3. Roses of Yesterday and Today, 1960 catalog. "Agnes. H. Rugosa. (1900) 4 - 6 feet. A husky six-footer with R. Rugosa and Persian Yellow as its parents. Its rough, ribbed leaflets are smaller and a darker green that true rugosa roses. Double, 3 inch, pale amber blooms...deeper at the center... borne on short stems along the arching canes. Hardy and lavish with sweetly fragrant flowers for a long spring period... then occasional blooms in the summer."
   
   
4. The Companion to Roses, 1986. "There are some excellent R. rugosa hybrid pillar roses- for example, 'Agnes', coming from a cross between R. rugosa and R. foetida persiana, carried out in Canada and introduced in 1900. It has double, mid-yellow, fragrant floweres."
   

5. New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Gardening, 1967. "Agnes. One of the few Rugosa Roses having golden yellow double flowers. Sweetly fragrant. 6 ft."
   

6. The Charm of Old Roses, 1986. "Rugosa Roses generally retain the magenta tones of the original types, with the exception of a few white forms, and one or two pale pink ones. Yellow tones were unknow until this century; when first in France and later in Canada, yellow-flowered Rugosas appeared. M. Jules Gravereaux bread 'Daniel Lesuer' by using the old yellow Tea Rose, 'Safrano', as one parent: and produced a rose with nankeen-yellow blooms. Later, a Canadian grower successfully crossed Harison's Yellow and Persian Yellow with R. rugosa. Two more yellow-flowered Hybrid Rugosas resulted from these experiments: 'Grace' and 'Agnes'. The former is not known out here, but 'Agnes' we grow in our own garden. Its clear green foliage and small leaflets are an inheritance from its Persian parent, and also its yellow-toned flowers, but whereas the blooms of Persian Yellow are a rich chrome-yellow, those of the hybrid 'Agnes' are a much softer shade, though still very lovely. We grow this rose at one end of a blue and silver garden, near a yellow and white border."
   
   
7. Anyone Can Grow Roses, 1960  "Light yellow. (Saunders, 1900; int. Central Exp. Farm, 1922.)
   Hybrid rugosa shrub, 6 feer or more, covered with coppery yellow buds and cream to amber double flowers; fragrant; profuse bloom for 2 weeks, starting just before hybrid teas; foliage light, wrinkled, pestfree except for aphids; very hardy."