"The prize-winners of the shows are glorious things; one delights in seeing them, in watching year by year for some new advance in form, habit, colour and fragrance, and one renders grateful tribute to the skill and patience of the growers, for in these qualities, and especially in colour, the recent developments have been surprising and admirable. Still, if one is a painter one does not want to paint them, whereas the kinds that the florist would disdain are just those chosen by such a consummate flower painter as Fantin Latour, to be made imortal on canvas. They are some of the oldest of the garden Roses, that will grow happily almost anywhere, and they have that quality of inimate charm that one is less aware of in the prouder blooms."
---Miss Gertrude Jekyll in Rose Annual for 1922 of the National Rose Society (UK)