Especially pre-1970, description writers had a lot of imagination as to what constituted a correct color lol.
Here is a quick example of descriptive images versus a real photograph for “deep golden yellow”, as described by one 1936 reference:
Not so deep golden yellow at all. Closer to pastel primrose yellow.
That was the way of roses in those days. “Cerise” was “dazzling scarlet”. Many "brilliant yellow "roses were little better than “old floor wax”. I’m sure that has been one of the many issues using old descriptions to identify found roses. Nineteenth and Twentieth Century eyes see very different colors for the same names. But, then, “old floor wax” WAS much more yellow than many candidates in the early days and when various shades of pinks and purples are the entire available repertoire, something approaching a real “red” was just as exciting as anything more yellow than all others.
And then there are the “red” Rugosas that are actually fluorescent magenta….