E. Veyrat Hermanos, cl T. The rose evidently does very well indeed on a wall at the Heritage rose firm in California. Mine was rather slow at the start but after 3 years has occupied the top of an arbor in my garden, and now is being led from there to a tree. Growth is fine, flowering is not. It balls constantly, only exceptionally opening very fine golden yellow flowers with cerise or other pink touches. Some have been reasonably large, others of middle-size. It scarcely blooms the rest of the year at all. This reticence to open has me puzzled, since it is hot but humid here in Richmond Va. during the summer. However, somehow I picked up a small book of 131 pages titled "The National Rose Society. The Society's Official Catalogue of Roses. 1913 edition. Compiled by a committee of the Society, Proof copy for notes and corrections," Croyden 1913. Roses are given name, class, breeder, year, and disappointingly few notes on culture. This copy belonged to the English breeder and nurseryman of roses George Paul the younger in Cheshunt, England; each page is faced by a blank page for editors' comments; its owner made none, unfortunately. Paul's father of the same name had died in mid-19th cent., and the sad thing about this edition of 1913 is that in the next year England plunged into an avoidable WWI in which she saw a generation of Englishmen massacred.
The rose is vigorous and trouble free, though it blackspots somewhat; it seems winter-hardy here, where temperatures seldom drop below 32 degrees F. My trouble with Hermanos was explained the on p. 31: "Best against a wall." Mine isn't. Full sun and growth in good air-circulation is not enough. I'll leave it until fall, then give it away (2011) if it doesn't perform in the interim. Unfortunately I have no convenient wall where it might thrive in the future.

"Princesse de Sagan": My plant here in Richmond Va. from Heritage in Ca. does not look like the plate reproduced by Cass amid the HMF photos. Heritage sells two roses under this name, allowing that one or the other may be the real plant; and I've lost track which of the two mine is.
Temperatures over the last 5 years or so average 101 F at worst for a week or two, low 30's and even a few high 20's F in winter, but this is a terraced garden open to the Winter wind. Rain in spring is generous, the summer is a drought, and rain begins slowly in Aug., with a very few violent Summer storms. Yes the world has been growing warmer gradually.
The Tea I grow is very much like all the photos in HMF. It's about 15 years old, is a modest 5' tall, and unfortunately has a sideways growth to 10', which obstructs a path here. I seldom water and never spray.
Flowers are of medium size, not quite full, plant almost disease free, thorns are smaller and fewer than usual on a Tea. There are a great many in Spring, another in Fall, and the coloring is very attractive indeed, which the HMF photos fail to reproduce. Looking at the plant, in full sun, from a window 50' above, the petals are a dark cerise within, followed by a much lighter pink, and white core that in sum makes me think of strawberries & cream; I can honestly say that the flower seems to glow in the sun like no other in the garden. They seldom open completely but keep a V-shape, and probably are not good for exhibition. Their continual adolescent (not totally open) appearance, not a 'bud', is also very attractive, but they can be coaxed open & then resemble a kind of spiral of color down to a white interior. Since I don't normally like pink flowers, you can trust that this is an acceptable mix. Unfortunatley in Summer the RIchmond heat darkens the rose to a kind of burnt red, and it's then rather ugly, & stems as usual with Teas are always short, so that they're not the best for cut display.
Early this spring I made a mistake & fed 'blossom food', perhaps too strong. The flowers are many but too small & their best coloring not very clear. Not the rose's fault. But in general, taking into account the plant's outward spread, this is a fine bargain for a dependable, carefree rose.