Book  (2007)  Page(s) 404.  
 
President Boone, HT, dr, 1936, [seedling x Miss Rowena Thom], Howard, F. H. ... description

Book  (1952)  Page(s) 56.  
 
Dr. A. S. Thomas.  Red Roses.
Gloria di Roma, President Boone and Mirandy are all too big for decorative uses, but are wonderful show roses in favourable weather; they open slowly and so need several calm warm days for red roses do not tolerate protection by covering.They seldom produce good blooms in Melbourne except at intervals in mid-Summer...President Boone always needs wiring to overcome its head-hanging, and it is not as pointed or as free with its flowers as Mirandy...Nevertheless, they are all great roses in districts that suit them.

Book  (1944)  Page(s) 65.  
 
Anthony Poulsen.  Roses in Canterbury, N.Z. 
President Boone gave some first-class blooms on occasions, but cannot be considered a good bedder here.

Book  (1939)  
 
p118.  Mr C. W. Heers.  Roses in Queensland
President Boone.- This variety is capable of producing a high quality, deep crimson exhibition bloom of immense size and very full. Its definite weakness is that, unless it is well grown, its stem is incapable of holding the bloom erect.

p125.  Mr Frank Mason, N.Z.  Roses and the Dry Weather.
President Boone is another red of good quality that seems to revel in the dry, hot weather.

p134.  Grantham, Murrumbeena, Victoria.  Good and Not So Good. 
President Boone.- Erect growth, good foliage, moderately free, Flowers in spring and early summer, quite good in shape and colour, but January blooms poorer in both form and ability to open freely.

Book  (1938)  Page(s) 107.  
 
John Poulsen, NZ.  Roses in the South Island
President Boone.  Strong growth, flowering freely; the dark crimson blooms are of good size and shape and some fine flowers have been given; in hot weather the colour "blued" somewhat, but in the cooler days of autumn the colour again improved. A promising exhibition Rose.

Website/Catalog  (1938)  Page(s) 40.  
 
New Roses 1938. President Boone (HT.  Howard & Smith 1935)  Extra large, double, exhibition flower of deep velvety crimson, which keeps its colour till the last. The blooms are produced on long stems, while the growth is very vigorous. 2/6 each.
A high class exhibition and garden sort, but unless well grown shows weak stems

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 99.  
 
R. Marion Hatton.  A Good Year in America.
Other dark reds are:- Fred Howard's President Boone, a fine big crimson flower with rich fragrance on a very vigorous plant. Its fault is a weak neck, which can be at least partially overcome with a diet of wood ashes.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 92.  
 
Boone, President (HT) Howard & Smith 1935; velvety crimson, large, double, globular, lasting, fragrance 7/10, floriferous, continuous bloom, long stems, leathery foliage, long pointed buds, growth 7/10.