It was one of the Dickson nursery's early commercial successes and was a popular rose with the public.

Flowers are cupped and cabbage-like when they first open, but later disintegrate into a mass of petals.

Grant' (1892) and this popular rose was followed by the dark red hybrid teas, 'Liberty' (1902) and 'George Dickson (1912).

The family nursery continued until 2018, when the business stopped commercially breeding roses.

A. Meilland', was developed from a multiple cross between ('George Dickson' x 'Souvenir de Claudius Pernet') x ('Joanna Hill' x 'Charles P. Kilham')) x 'Margaret McGredy'[5]