Book  (2002)  Page(s) 32.  
 
Rated 6.6

Book  (2000)  Page(s) 157.  
 
‘Charlotte Armstrong’ = Hybride de Thé… gros boutons pointus… rose intense, odorantes… buisson robuste et compact, au feuillage vert sombre et coriace. Lammerts US 1940.

Book  (Sep 1993)  Page(s) 116.  Includes photo(s).
 
Charlotte Armstrong Large-flowered. Parentage: 'Soeur Thérèse' x 'Crimson Glory'. Dr. Walter Lammerts 1940. Description... There is scarcely an American rose in our gardens today that does not descent from 'Charlotte Armstrong'... big ruffled flowers, stained brilliant cerise... lacks scent... named for the mother of the founder of Armstrong Nurseries...

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 87.  
 
Hybrid Tea, deep pink, 1940, 'Soeur Thérèse' x 'Crimson Glory'; Lammerts; Armstrong Nursery. Bud long, pointed, blood-red; flowers deep pink, double (35 petals), large (3-4 in.); fragrant; foliage dark, leathery; vigorous, compact growth.

Book  (1993)  Page(s) 19.  
 
Charlotte Armstrong [was named for breeder, John S. Armstrong's wife...] It is still considered among the top roses of our time, selling millions of bushes since its introduction in 1940 and being in the background of many top roses...

Book  (1981)  Page(s) 118.  
 
Dr. A. S. Thomas, Victoria.  Some New Ones.
'Century Two' .....Can be described best as an "Improved 'Charlottte Armstrong' ". The medium pink colouring, the long petals, and the strong growth are similar, but this rose has more petals and more classical form.

Article (misc)  (1980)  Page(s) 23.  
 
[Patrick Dickson wrote in 1980:] As far as we in Europe are concerned, we would be please to see you [Americans] remove 'Charlotte Armstrong' varieties from your breeding programme.

Book  (1978)  Page(s) 92.  
 
Charlotte Armstrong Medium. Rose red. Remontant. P2. H2. *.  
This rose significantly influenced Hybrid Teas in the 1950s, and transmitted Its long and graceful shape to the future. It is surely the most important American contribution to modern roses. If you remember it, the petals were long, the heart perfectly regular, each petal around it slightly parted in an expectant way; a very handsome Hybrid Tea flower, in that typical but not very popular rose colour which maybe deep pink or light red at the speakers whim.  If 'Peace' was husky, 'Charlotte Armstrong' was refined; and those qualities may be seen in some of their children; compare for example, 'Eden Rose' and 'Karl Herbst' of the 'Peace' family with 'First Love' and 'Sutter's Gold' from 'Charlotte's.   Her good points were given to the Floribunda's via 'Pink Parfait', and she also has the credit of the seed which grew into 'Queen Elizabeth'
'Charlotte Armstrong was introduced in 1940 by Armstrong Nurseries of Ontario, California. That date ensured that Europeans did not know her well until nearly 1950;  and it reserved her breeding capacity almost exclusively to Americans. One may ask what was lost through this failure to mix a valuable stud rose into the strains of European breeders. The breeder was Dr W. E. Lammerts of Livermore, California, who was a serious student of the science, endeavouring to ascertain the course of heredity by careful observation. The parents were 'Soeur Therese' x 'Crimson Glory', and these two brought together two classic Hybrid Tea lines, 'Souvenir de Claudius Pernet' on the one side, and 'Mme Caroline Testout on the other. Dr. Lammerts won practically every Gold Medal in the United States, and eventually, in 1950, one from the National Rose Society too. My firm had the pleasure of showing it for its Gold in Wolverhampton, an unusual venue for the Provincial show. We had accepted the task of introducing Armstrong's roses in Britain.

Book  (8 Mar 1970)  Page(s) 24-26.  
 
Queen Elizabeth... raised by Dr. Walter E. Lammerts, of Livermore, California... He had begun work on it just after the war, crossing 'Charlotte Armstrong', a tall-growing blood-red hybrid tea of his own breeding, with 'Floradora', a red floribunda raised by the Tantaus in Germany... the American plants of 'Queen Elizabeth' were all much bigger than anything [Wheatcroft himself had] ever seen the variety achieve in [England]... budded on multiflora stocks, which always produce an outsize root system, they were three or four times the size of [the plants in England] in every way... fragrance is all that it lacks...

Website/Catalog  (1970)  Page(s) 7.  
 
CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG. — Rose foncé avec onglet jaune. Bouton allongé.

[no longer listed in 1971]