The Rose Fancier’s Manual, p. 4 (1838)
Mrs. Gore

Quitting the borders of streams and marshy savannahs, we find in the forests and stony districts the Rosa diffusa, of which the pink flowers blossom in pairs early in the summer. On the rising grounds of Pennsylvania, grows the Rosa parviflora, a diminutive shrub, of which the small, half-blown, elegant double-flowers, slightly tinged with the most delicate pink, constitute one of the most beautiful species of North America, but extremely difficult of culture and propagation. On the outskirts of the Pennsylvanian forests, grows the *Rosa stricta*, with flowers of a pale red; the Rosa rubifolia, the flowers small, pale red, and flowering in clusters of three; and, in South Carolina, the Rosa setigera, the petals of whose red blossoms are shaped like a reversed heart. The Creoles of Georgia adorn their hair with the large white blossoms of the Rosa laevigata, a climbing plant, whose long tendrils are found interlaced among the most majestic forest trees.