Newsletter  (2017)  Page(s) Summer issue, p. 18.  
 
[From "Old Tales from an Old Rose Collector", by Pamela Ashworth Puryear (reprint from Summer 1987 issue), pp. 17-19]
Cousin Jane Lott introduced me to what we now call “Morton-Gorce.” Her neighbor Mrs. Morton, got it from Mrs. Gorce (the dentist’s wife) when she married fifty years ago, perhaps. “Morton-Gorce” is a thin foliaged, woody bush, reminiscent of Hume’s, an early Tea. I realize now that it was the same as another we found in o yards in Bellville. Bellville was our first real bonanza, and I still regret “the ones that got away.” These were in a wonderful yard at 405 N. Cochran, belonging to Raymond Fisher. Mr. Fisher was descended from early Austin County settlers and had inherited the roses he grew. On his walk, he had Cramoisie Superieur, and a small flowered polyantha (like Lindee, in the Antique Rose Emporium catalogue), Paul’s Scarlet o the back fence, “Morton-Gorce” on the west fence, and a peach colored Tea on his vegetable garden fence. No telling what I missed! He died about two years later and the whole lot was bulldozed.