(23 Feb 1895)  Page(s) 118.  
 
The Storrs & Harrison Company, Painesville, O. ...general catalogue ....An illustration is given of the Hybrid Rosa Rugosa rose, Agnes Emily Carman. 

(29 Jun 1895)  Page(s) 443.  
 
About four years ago, Storrs & Harrison, Painesville, O., who were propagating it for introduction, sent us a strong plant of the Agnes Emily Carman hybrid Rugosa rose. The bush is now, June 10, about five feet high, and about the same in diameter, bearing, as well as we could estimate, 200 roses in more or less full bloom, and not less than 600 buds. The fully opened flowers are three inches in diameter, so that the bush was a mass of brilliant crimson and dark green. The odor from these flowers perfumed the air for at least 25 feet about the bush. Never, that we have seen, has a twig of this exceedingly hardy rose been harmed during the dormant season. We do not suppose that florists will ever praise it. or even know of it. The rose is not for them. The stems are too short and thorny, and the buds are borne in clusters. But, we dare say that, in due time, it will be fairly appreciated by those who do not care to fuss with tender, or unreliably hardy roses.

(13 Jul 1895)  Page(s) 475.  
 
"Agnes Emily Carman Rose. — We have two nice bushes of it in full bloom, and they are distinct and pretty. It is a rugosa hybrid, with strong rugosa marks as regards foliage and earliness ; the blossoms are semi-double, Jacqueminot crimson and pretty in the bud, but not so attractive when open. It must be a very hardy rose, for it survived last winter entirely unprotected, and without the least injury so far as we can see.” 

(2 Nov 1895)  Page(s) 731.  
 
The Agnes Emily Carman Rose.— Next year, we shall hope to hear from many of our subscribers regarding the general deportment of this rose. Here is the opinion of Mr. E. G. Fowler, one of the editors of the Orange County Farmer : Specimens of this new rose received from the Storrs & Harrison Co., of Painesville, O., planted last spring, have given us great satisfaction. The roses, of which we had quite a number, are very pretty, indeed, but to us the foliage is equally attractive, vivid green, hardy in texture, and seeming able to resist all sorts of weather, and to repel all insect attacks. When our other roses were calling for all our vigilance to save them from perishing from the ravages of the aphis, not one was seen on the Agnes Emily Carman. It is, withal, a vigorous grower. It is, as most of our readers doubtless know, a cross between the Japanese Rosa rugosa and the old Harison’s Yellow, and is the handiwork of the lady whose name it bears. If Mr. Fowler had occasion to admire the foliage of plants “received last spring,” he will have more occasion to do so next summer, and still more the summer thereafter, as the leaflets do not grow to their largest size until the third season. The hardiness of this variety may be judged when we say that, though the mercury fell last winter to 24 degrees below zero, not a bud on either of our plants was harmed. The stems of the Georges Bruant, reported as hardy in Rochester, were killed nearly to the ground.

(3 Mar 1894)  Page(s) 129.  
 
The Storrs & Harrison Co. .... The Agnes Emily Carman Rugosa hybrid is offered—field-grown plants—for 50 cents each

(10 Mar 1894)  Page(s) 154.  
 
In the excellent catalogue of Ellwanger & Barry, briefiy noticed last week, we find the Agnes Emily Carman rose offered. The description says that it is “very hardy.” In another part the Georges Bruant is described as “exceptionally hardy,” by which it may be assumed that the latter is hardier than the former. The reverse is true if we may take our own experience as a guide, as the two roses have been growing at the Rural Grounds within 50 feet of each other for three years. The foliage of either variety is simply superb, but that of Bruant mildews more or less every year. Last winter was severe upon all roses. The canes of Bruant were killed nearly to the ground. Those of the Carman were not harmed in the least. The foliage does not mildew. In the interests of authentic rose history, we are in hopes that it will be stated that the A. E. Carman was the first Rugosa hybrid, of which a printed, illustrated account has been given. The cross was made, according to these printed reports, during the summer of 1886. The seeds were started during the winter of 1887, and it bloomed (this was the first of the lot to bloom) in the fall of the same year, and an illustration appeared shortly after in these columns. This was before the G. Bruant rose was heard of. Its introduction was announced nearly, if not quite one year afterward, and we learn that very few plants were then sold. —the one a pure white, the other a brilliant crimson.

(30 Jul 1892)  Page(s) 495.  
 
...the first lot of these hybrids, raised some six years ago from seeds of Rugosa crossed with Harrison's Yellow, will be offered to the public in a few months....

(3 Nov 1894)  Page(s) 699.  
 
Mr. E. G. Grindrod, Ellensburgh, Wash., has this to say of the R. N.-Y. Rugosa hybrid : “ I am very much pleased with the Carman rose sent by you last fall. It has made a good growth and commenced to bloom the early part of August, and has continued in bloom most of the time since. The buds are borne, always, three in a cluster and blossom one at a time, followed in a few days by another, so that by the time the first bloom is falling the second is opening, followed at about the same interval by the third. The color is-well, not pink, as one of your subscribers reported. Its fragrance is delightful ” The color may best be described by saying that it is the color of Jacqueminot - a purplish crimson, as nearly as we can describe it. We would again remind our friends that the fine foliage of this rose does not fully show itself until the second or third season after transplanting.

(13 May 1893)  Page(s) 334.  
 
The Emily Agnes Carman Rose. —We are sorry to see that the beautiful Georges Bruant has been seriously injured by the past winter. This rose, it will be remembered, is half Tea (Sombreuil) and half Rosa rugosa. Fifty feet away and in a less favorable exposure, the Agnes Emily Carman rose has not been injured in the least, which may be said of few other roses in The Rural's little collection. The female parent of the latter, as has often been stated, was Rosa rugosa, the male parent Harrison’s Yellow. This hybrid originated at the Rural Grounds two years before the Georges Bruant was introduced, and might have been introduced before the Bruant had the difficulty of propagating it been known at the start. The R. N.-Y. has no pecuniary interest in the Carman rose whatever, and we speak of it now as we would of any other tested novelty of remarkable merit. What are its merits? First, exceeding hardiness. Second, the foliage resembles that of the female parent, Rosa rugosa, while the leaflets are much larger. Third, the color and odor of the flower are similar to those of Gen. Jacqueminot, and, last, it has more than one period of bloom during the season. The rose is now offered for sale by the Storrs & Harrison Co., of Painesville, O., who control the entire stock. A life-size picture of the leaves and buds and flowers is promised. The R. N.-Y., and faithful engravings will appear in these columns in due time.

(29 Oct 1892)  Page(s) 703.  
 
It was in 1886 that E. S. Carman, the Editor of The Rural New-Yorker, first crossed the pink variety, using pollen of the Austrian hardy yellow rose, Harison’s Yellow, as the pollen parent. The next year pollen from Hybrid Perpetuals was used and in following seasons from Hybrid Teas, upon both the pink and white Rugosa. From these crosses hundreds of plants have been raised, most of them worthless— except as curiosities —but some of them of rare and remarkable beauty, unlike any other roses known to the world. It is not assumed that any of these hybrids will ever be prized by florists. The stems are too short and spiny and they are too difficult to propagate. They will be duly prized, however, by all who love hardy garden roses, that, with ordinary care, will thrive from year to year for a life-time. They will be prized because they differ from all other roses, as well in their buds and flowers as in their form and exquisite foliage. They will be prized as the roses for the million.