Newsletter  (Nov 2013)  Page(s) 12.  
 
[From "California's oldest surviving roses", by Darrell Schramm]
Gill’s work with roses did not stop with Sarah Isabella Gill. In 1889, he introduced California’s fi rst hybrid perpetual rose, Mrs. Cleveland, named for the First Lady at the time. A short plant with rich, velvety red blooms, Gill extolled the new rose in his 1889–90 catalog, describing it as similar to the famous General Jacqueminot rose “but of a more pronounced color.” The Gill nursery was still off ering Mrs. Cleveland in 1916, so it was available for at least a quarter of a century.

Book  (1920)  Page(s) 179.  
 
Mrs. Cleveland HP (Gill, 1897)

Magazine  (1903)  Page(s) 446.  
 
Four hundred varieties are to be found there, among them a few of Mr. Gill's own, notably the Mrs. Cleveland, a rich red of the Jacqueminot type, and Sarah Elisabeth Gill.

Book  (1899)  Page(s) 130.  
 
Mistress Cleveland, HR, Gill, 1897, rouge vif

Magazine  (1898)  Page(s) 24.  
 
Mrs. Cleveland, very floriferous, fire-red, Jacqueminot-style

Magazine  (1890)  Page(s) 171.  
 
This bears a large truss of white flowers with brown spots, and being very beautiful it has been honored with the name of Mrs. Cleveland...