Book  (1880)  Page(s) Annex, p. 61.  
 
sulphurea, Jaune double de Hollande, beautiful yellow, large, very double, susceptible when expanding.

Magazine  (1880)  Page(s) 79.  
 
Rosa hemispherica Herrm. - Described for the first time in 1762, this rose subsequently received the names of R. glaucophylla Ehrh. and R. sulfurea Ait. For a very long time, it was known in its horticultural form with full flowers. Its spontaneous type, discovered in Persia and Asia Minor, was described for the first time in 1859, by Messieurs Boissier and Balansa, under the name of R. Rapini.

Magazine  (19 Jul 1877)  Page(s) 59.  
 
The Burghley Yellow Rose.
I shall only feel too happy to tell your correspondent 'South Lincoln' the best way I know to flower the 'Burghley Rose'. If your correspondent grows fruit trees on the wall of his garden, I would advise him to procure good layers of this Rose and plant them between the trees, but not to forget the larder. When established this Rose grows something like 'Marechal Niel' from 10 to 15 feet in a summer. Grow up a single stem between the trees, and when it reaches to the top of the wall train it along it, and when the dark days of winter set in take the Rose away from the wall and tie it to the Pear or Plum spurs. This will effectually preserve it from the frost. When the fruit trees are in flower the Roses will be showing and the fruit blossoms keep it warm and comfortable. In due time you will see the yellow buds of the Rose peering through the green leaves, which add the necessary shade and all comes perfect.

Book  (1872)  Page(s) Pl. 26.  Includes photo(s).
 
Sulphurea Plena Double Yellow

Book  (1864)  Page(s) 175.  
 
Choix des Belles Variétés de Roses.
Rosiers Jaunes.
Rosier jaune double, rosa sulphurea, vigoureux, fleurs non remontant, fleurs s'épanouissant à l'extrémité du bois de l'année précédente; elles sont grandes, globuleuses, très-pleines, mais s'ouvrent difficilement sous notre climat, à moins que le rosier ne soit taillé fort long, à mi-soleil; plus florifère étant greffé, non remontant.

Choice of Beautiful Rose Varieties.
Yellow Roses.
Rose jaune double, rosa sulphurea, a vigorous rose which is once-blooming, the flowers open at the tips of canes from the previous year; they are large, globular and very full, often opening with difficulty in our climate unless the bush is long-pruned and in part sun, more free-flowering if grafted, blooms only once in the season. 

Book  (1860)  Page(s) 112.  
 
R. sulphurea Ait....Jaune double Ancienne (Sulphurea plena, Double Yellow), the original double golden-yellow Rose, large, very full, brilliant yellow, globular, expands seldom fully.

Magazine  (Jul 1848)  Page(s) 179.  
 
Royal Botanic Society's Exhibition.
The second for the season was held in the garden at the Inner Circle, Regent’s Park, on June 14th. [...]
For the best collection of Yellow Roses: 1st, to Messrs. Lane and Son, for La Pactole, Clara Wendell, Eliza Sauvage, Vicomtesse de Cazes, Ne Plus Ultra, Smith’s Yellow, Comte d’Osmont, Sulphurea Superb, Barbot, and Persian Yellow.

Magazine  (May 1848)  Page(s) 53-54.  
 
Rosa sulphurea, Ait. dubbelde geele roos, oorspronkelijk uit de Levant, van waar de Engelschen haar in het laatst der zestiende eeuw invoerden. Bij de oudere volkeren schijnt zij niet bekend geweest te zijn, althans geen hunner schrijvers maakt er gewag van; het eerst vindt men er melding van gemaakt, door den Arabischen of Moorschen schrijver Ebn-el-Awam, die in de 12de eeuw leefde, tijdens de overheersching van Spanje door de Mooren. Velen klagen dat deze anders zoo schoone roos zelden goed geopende en welgevormde bloemen voortbrengt, doch dit gebrek is gemakkelijk te voorkomen, door dezelve in het geheel niet te snoeijen; het beste doet men door haar tegen eenen muur of eene schutting te planten en daar vrijelijk te laten opschieten; eigenlijk is het voldoende haar geheel op zichzelve staande te planten, mits dat men er eenen langen, stevigen staak bijzet, waartegen zij kan opgroeijen; zoo als ik reeds gezegd heb, in het geheel niet snoeijen; ten einde den struik een goed fatsoen te doen houden, vergenoege men zich, door nu en dan de topjes der langste scheuten er uit te knijpen. Het is mij voorgekomen dat deze roos op de Rosa bifera geënt, veel beter slaagde en meer voldeed, dan op de Rosa canina. Er bestaat in deze soort eene verscheidenheid met kleine zwaar gevulde geele bloemen, welker oorsprong mij niet geble-boom. ken, doch die bijzonder fraai is.

Translation:
Rosa sulphurea, Ait. double yellow rose, originally from the Levant, from where the English imported it in the late sixteenth century. It does not seem to have been known to the older peoples, or at least none of their writers mention it; the first mention of it is found by the Arab or Moorish writer Ebn-el-Awam, who lived in the twelfth century, during the domination of Spain by the Moors. Many complain that this otherwise beautiful rose rarely produces well-opened and well-formed flowers, but this defect can easily be prevented by not pruning it at all; the best thing to do is to plant it against a wall or fence and let it grow freely there; In fact, it is sufficient to plant it completely on its own, provided that a long, sturdy stake is added against which it can grow; as I have already said, do not prune at all; In order to keep the shrub in good shape, one is contented by occasionally pinching out the tips of the longest shoots. It has happened to me that this rose, grafted onto Rosa bifera, succeeded much better and performed better than on Rosa canina. There is a variety in this species with small, heavily filled yellow flowers, whose origin I do not know. know, but which is particularly beautiful.

Book  (1848)  Page(s) Div. II, p. 16.  
 
Rosa sulphurea....Double Yellow, or Sulphurea; flowers of the deepest and brightest yellow found among roses, very large and full; rarely expand well; form, globular. Habit, branching; growth, moderate, or sometime vigorous.

Book  (1847)  Page(s) 272-3.  
 
Double Yellow Provence is the best of the two varieties which compose the species called Sulphurea. We have never seen its flowers, and English writers all speak of the great difficulty of making it bloom. Rivers recommends to bud it on strong stocks, and says that it blooms most profusely in the warm, dry climate of Florence and Genoa. The plant grows with luxuriance and produces plenty of flower-buds, which, with proper culture, would probably open in our warm climate, which is very similar to that of Florence and Genoa. Its small foliage and slender, thorny wood, place it fairly among the Briars. Its flower is so good that it is well worth the trouble of repeated experiment to obtain a good bloom. It has long been admired and exercised the skill of rose growers, as proved by the following passages from some old works, which give instructions for its proper culture:

"Whereas all other roses are best natural, this is best inoculated upon another stock. Others thrive and bear best in the sun; this, in the shade: therefore, the best way that I know to cause this rose to bring forth fair and kindly flowers, is performed after this manner. First in the stock of a Francfort Rose, near the ground, put in the bud of the single yellow rose, which will quickly shoot to a good length; then, half a yard higher than the place where the same was budded, put into it a bud of the double yellow rose, which growing, the suckers must be kept from the root, and all the buds rubbed off, except those of the kind desired, which, being grown big enough to bear (which will be in two years), it must in winter be pruned very near, cutting off all the small shoots, and only leaving the biggest, cutting off the tops of them also, as far as they are small. Then in the spring, when the buds for leaves come forth, rub off the smallest of them, leaving only some few of the biggest, which, by reason of the strength of the stock, affordeth more nourishment than any other, and the agreeable nature of the single yellow rose, from whence it is immediately nourished, the shoots will be strong and able to bear out the flowers, if they be not too many, which may be prevented by nipping off the smallest buds for flowers. The tree should stand something shadowed, and not too much in the heat of the sun, and in a standard by itself, rather than under a wall." That which follows is from a book called Systema Horticulture, dated 1688 "There is no flower-bearing tree that yields blossom so beautiful as the rose, whereof the yellow Provence Rose is the most beautiful where it brings forth fair and kindly flowers, which hath been obtained by budding a single yellow rose on the stock of a flourishing Francfort Rose near the ground: when that single yellow is well grown, in that branch inoculate your double yellow rose; then cut off all suckers and shoots from the first and second, leaving only your last, which must be pruned very near, leaving but few buds, which will have the more nourishment, and yield the fairer and more entire blossoms. This tree, or a layer from a rose of the same kind, delights most, and blows fairest, in a cold, moist, and shady place, and not against a hot wall."