Book  (1844)  Page(s) 40.  
 
Centifolia....Belgic, or Dutch Provins, is even larger than the cabbage, being four to five inches in diameter; colour red; buds large and very splendid, and is the most common rose in the country - called Cabbage Rose from which it differs very materially in the wood not having such strong prickles, though of more free growth; the flower also expands fully, which the cabbage never does.

Book  (1823)  Page(s) 149-150.  
 
But we now learned, that the rose-gardens of Noordwyck are distinguished for their extent chiefly, and not for the number of varieties of rose-tree cultivated. The great object of the cultivators is the collecting of the petals of the flowers, to be used in perfumery and in medicine. A profuse bloom of roses is therefore much more desirable to them than fine colours or regular shapes. In point of fact, only three or four kinds are in general cultivation. These are chiefly varieties of two of the species of rose-tree above mentioned: One variety, which we call the Dutch Hundred-leaved Rose, is regarded as belonging to the Rosa Gallica; another is our common Cabbage-rose, a third what we style the Dutch Provins, and these last are considered, by Mr Lindley, as having sprung from R. centifolia. A friend who visited the place has informed us, that the flowers are sent annually in great quantities to Amsterdam, and that they are thence exported even to Constantinople, where they are used by the Turks for making rose-water.

Book  (1785)  Page(s) 352.  
 
...the Childing Provence...flowers are at first globular, though they will afterwards open at top, and display their petals folded a little like those of the Belgic.