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There is a picture of 'Peggy Ann Landon' in Crockett, James Underwood, Roses, published by Time Life Books in 1971. This book has its' virtues, but photography throughout is quite untrue to color. The photo is a full page plate opposite page 43. The color shown is a kind of strawberry red with either white or pale yellow centers, rather like an improved 'American Pillar'. The bush is shown growing on a white fence and is clearly a vigorous climber; judging by the amount of flowers, I would have supposed it a rambler.
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The picture in Crockett's book is clearly not 'Peggy Ann Landon'. Looks like another photo of 'American Pillar'' of which there are several in this volume.
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It's 'Atomic White' (1948). The green buds were said to look like glowing nuclear plutonium.
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Can't say I've seen nuclear plutonium. Don't want to, either.
Lots of similes are out of date. Boot-button eyes. Pipe-cleaner. Snuff-coloured.
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Looks much more like 'Little Compton Creeper'
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Those tips are not soft blush pink as in the old references. What do you suggest we do please NEroseman and AmiRoses?
We could mark AmiRoses photo as incorrect (and why)
or make another file named perhaps "South Orange Perfection - ex Rhode Island [or France?]"
or give the photograhed rose another "study name" entirely.
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I've seen a surviving specimen of the correct variety. Blooms are quite small, dbl, opening soft pink fading white, fragrant. Matches descriptions collected in Dickerson's book "The Old Rose Adventurer", p.324.
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