"So, in planning for the future--and despite the present turmoil there will be a future for the Rose--let us revert here and there to the simple life, to the simplicity of Nature's art in the nude, and enjoy the beauty and unaffected dignity of those five symmetrical little petals surrounding the mysterious and alluring centrepiece of stamens and anthers, and so shall we assuredly find fresh joy in our gardens and peace in our thoughts."

F.S. Harvey-Cant in The Rose Annual for 1942 for the National Rose Society, Great Britain.