Magazine  (2008)  Page(s) 11. Vol 22, No. 3.  
 
Peter D. A. Boyd. Romantic Survivors.
I am not sure whether to include 'Single Cherry' with this group of typical Scots Roses or with the following group. It is one of my favourite cultivars with its rich cherry-red, single flowers with paler backs to the petals (a single Bicolor) but it is not a completely typical Scots Rose. It does have the stems and black fruits of the species but the foliage looks as if another species is involved. Also, it often bears more than one flower at the end of each shoot, which suggests a hybrid origin. It is known as 'Red Nelly' in Europe.

Book  (Nov 1994)  Page(s) 111.  
 
‘Single Cherry’. Bluish-green foliage. The bright rose-pink buds open to vivid single flowers of intense cherry red; The colour is splashed and flushed so thickly on a blush ground that it appears uniform. Probably 3 to 4 feet.

Website/Catalog  (1985)  Page(s) 45.  
 

Single Cherry (Hybrid Pimpinellifolia) A charming little rose. Fern-like foliage. Tidy growth and large, single, cherry-red flowers followed by round, purple to black hips. Date unknown. F. H. Shade tolerant. (S) 3 x 2’.

Magazine  (1982)  Page(s) 1. Vol 4, No. 1.  
 
Editor [?]  Roses Imported From New Zealand.
This year some 'new' old roses have been imported from Trevor Griffiths in New Zealand, among those that arrived in January were: 
Single Cherry -a Spinosissima hybrid with bluish-green foliage.  Bright rose pink buds open to vivid cherry red splashed and blotched on a blush base. 

Magazine  (1967)  Page(s) 14.  
 
 ' Single Cherry ' , a single with bright rose - pink flowers , cherry within , contrasting beautifully with the bluish ...

Book  (1962)  
 
‘Single Cherry’. Bluish-green foliage. The bright rose-pink buds open to vivid single flowers of intense cherry red; The colour is splashed and flushed so thickly on a blush ground that it appears uniform. Probably 3 to 4 feet.