Book  (2 Jan 1984)  Page(s) 25.  Includes photo(s).

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 33.  
 

Rosa hugonis This graceful shrub with fern-like leaves beats large quantities of small cup-shaped primrose-yellow flowers very early in June.  W.  Shade tolerant. (S) 8 x 6’.

Book  (1981)  Page(s) 252.  
 
R. hugonis Hemsl. Shrub, 2-2.5 m./6.6-8.3 ft. high, branches deep brown, straight or arching, prickles flattened, straight, on shoots mixed with bristles, at least at base of shoots; leaflets 7-13, obovate to elliptic, 8-20 mm./0.3-0.8 in. long, above bald and serrate, hairy beneath at least on the youngest leaves; flowers solitary on short branchlets, bright yellow, 5 cm./2 in. across, May-June; pedicels and calyx bald; fruits broadly obovate, to 1.5 cm./0.6 in. across; deep red to blackish-red. 2n = 14. Central China; grows on dry, stony ground in its native country. 1899. Named after "Father Hugo" (the Rev. Hugh Scallon).

Book  (1981)  Page(s) 103-105.  
 
R. hugonis Hemsl. A bush up to 8 ft high and more in diameter; branches slender, sometimes gracefully arching, armed with straight, flattened spines of varying length...on the barren shoot with numerous bristles...sometimes...triangular prickles, red and translucent, very like ...pteracantha though not so large. Leaves 1 to 4 in. long. Leaflets five to eleven, elliptic...¼ to ¾ in. long, finely tooth, deep grass green, perfectly glabrous on both sides. Flowers 2 in....cup-shaped, bright yellow, solitary on short lateral twigs...Fruits globose, blackish red when ripe, the calyx persisting....native of N.W. China; described in 1905 from a plant raised ...from seeds sent to England by Father Hugh Scallan...R. hugonis is closely allied to R. xanthina in which it is included by Boulenger without distinction....[it differs from R. xanthina in having] bristles on the strong shoots and more finely toothed, more numerous, perfectly glabrous leaflets....early to flower...luxuriant, feathery masses of foliage. It is perfectly hardy....The armature...is very variable....The existence of pteracanthous forms of R. hugonis suggests the possiblity at least that some roses in cultivation which combine translucent wing-prickles with yellow flowers are forms of R. hugonis and not hybrids between it and R. sericea var. pteracantha as usually supposed. Such plants are usually grouped together under the heading R. x pteragonis, this being the name given to a plant raised in Germany and supposed to be R. sericiea var. pteracantha x R. hugonis. One of the roses in question is 'Hidcote Gold', of which the original plant grew at Hidcote Manor.

Magazine  (Aug 1970)  Page(s) 22-23.  Includes photo(s).
 
"à propos de Rosa Hugonis" by Charlotte Testu
....Peut-on ignorer ce feuillage léger, celui en miniature d'un acacia, et affiné, ciselé de petites dents ? et ces branches à la souplesse mouvante... et ces larges fleurs simples dont le jaune vif éclate déjà en mai, alors que d'autres arbustes à roses font encore attendre leurs couleurs ? Ceux qui n'ont jamais vu ce Rosa Hugonis peuvent s'imaginer un Rosa pimpinellifolia (synonyme, rappelons-le de Rosa spinosissima) qu'on aurait agrandi en le faisant encore plus léger, et qui porterait des fleurs d'un Rosa lutea, heureusement dépouillées de leur odeur déplaisante. J'aimerais que ce Rosa Hugonis, de temps en temps, perdît sa qualité de pièce de collection, et que sa forme, si libre, prît sa juste part des scènes favorites des jardins de nos jours, où les plantes semblent être venues, par hasard, se rencontrer avec harmonie....

Book  (1966)  Page(s) 46, plate 60.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa Hugonis Shrub rose
This very beautiful shrub rose was brought to Europe about the turn of the century by the missionary Hugo Scollan. At the beginning of June - or even in late May - the whole bush is covered with a mass of pale sulphur-yellow, single flowers which look particularly attractive against its delicate fern-like foliage. The bush, which is only slightly thorny, reaces a good 6 ft and should be grown free-standing to show its elegant and graceful shape. The old shoots should be pruned right down to the ground once a year.

Website/Catalog  (1966)  Page(s) 30.  
 
ROSA HUGONIS — Fleurs simples, moyennes, jaune dore.

[no longer listed in 1970]

Book  (1962)  Page(s) 12-13.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa hugonis Hemsl. - A botanical rose from Middle China. The shrub requires no pruning, only a thinning out of dry branches. She is best planted free-standing and attains then a height of two meters. The fine foliage gives decorative value to this otherwise somewhat peasant-like bush.Already in spring, ca. end of may, the single, small, soft golden-yellow roses expand. They cover the branches of the past year in their full length. The hips are flat-globular, scarlet-red.

Website/Catalog  (1961)  Page(s) 22.  
 
ROSA HUGONIS (Pimprenelle Hemsley 1899.). Rameaux pourpres, feuillage très fin vert mat, fleurs simples jaune canari en Mai.

Book  (1959)  Page(s) 207.  
 
Hugh’s Rose. Of the numerous species of wild roses introduced to the garden from China in recent years, perhaps the choicest is the “Hugh’s rose,” Rosa hugonis, a graceful shrub with long arching sprays wreathed with primrose-yellow flowers, up to two and a half inches across. It is a handsome, free-flowering rose and is very hardy. The yellow color is a delightful shade not found in any other rose. Its early blooming season in April is another valuable feature of Rosa hugonis (Hemsley, 1905). This hardy yellow rose is apparently a close relative of the Chinese yellow rose, Rosa xanthina, long known and cultivated in garden of northern China. It may represent one of the wild progenies of that cultivated plant. Rosa hugonis was discovered by Rev. Hugh Scallen in 1904, somewhere in northern China, most probably in Shansi Province. He collected seeds of the rose and sent them back to England. Hence, the species was named for him and the popular primrose-yellow rose was subsequently propagated from plants raised from these seeds at Kew Gardens in England.