Website/Catalog  (1826)  Page(s) 69.  
 
ROSA sulphurea major.

Book  (1826)  Page(s) 706-707.  
 
R. jaune de soufre. R. sulphurea. Ait. Du Levant. Il n'y a rien de commun entre l'églantier jaune el celui-ci, quoique bien des personne; le prennent pour une variété du premier. Rameaux, longs et faibles , couverts d'aiguillons aciculaires ; folioles d'un vert jaunâtre ; en juin-juillet, fleurs grandes , très-doubles , inodores. La variété naine, Pompon Jaune , est très-hispide dans toutes ses parties, les feuilles sont plus rapprochées, mais el!e fleurit rarement dans le climat de Paris, à moins d'être greffée sur un sujet très-élevé. La 1re veut être soutenue. Terrain frais.

Magazine  (1825)  Page(s) 174-175.  
 
Various Horticultural Notices Communicated by Mr. Murray, Lecturer on Chemistry, &c. to the Secretary,

1. Remarks regarding the Yellow Rose.
Perhaps a remark on the Yellow Rose (Rosa lutea, fl. pl.) may not be altogether uninteresting to the Caledonian Horticultural Society. It unfolds its petals irregularly in this country ; and there is nothing more rare, than to see a perfect evolution. It is even so in France, and equivocal in Italy itself; of which country I believe it indigenous.
The Yellow Rose, I was informed by a florist of central Italy, is generally imperfect even there, and is especially remarkable when kept insulated in the centre of a garden, but when placed close to a low wall, with an aspect to tlie east, it then succeeds well enough.
Some have attributed the failure to a too fertile soil ; others to other causes ; all equally hypothetical. In Italy, the rose-bud, when mature, is not unfrequently transferred to a caraffe of water, where it expands regularly.
I have made several experiments on the effects of a copious supply of water on the expansion of the flower-buds of the China Rose, (Rosa semperflorens), and have no hesitation in saying, that this will cause a prompt evolution of the petals, and in regular order ; in cases where, reasoning from analogy, the rose-bud would not have bloomed, or would have exhibited only an imperfectly expanded corolla.
The experiment in question, we may reasonably infer, will apply with success in the case of the Yellow Rose, and to other plants equally shy in the display of their blossom ; and the very circumstance of the bud freely expanding in water, offers a striking corroboration of the fact.

Book  (1824)  Page(s) 946-947.  
 
. R. JAUNE SOUFRÉ. R. sulphurea. WILLD. Du Le vant. Tiges, branches et pétioles , armés d'aiguillons nombreux et géininés; rameaux longs et faibles ; foli les glabres , vert pâle : en mai et juin , fleurs inodores, soufre, 18 lignes de diamètre ; ovaires gros et épineux. Variétés LE GRAND ROSIER JAUNE ; en juin et juillet , fleurs doubles , avortant presque toujours quand l'arbrisseau n'est point près d'un mur qui l'abrite des pluies..

Book  (1823)  Page(s) Vol. I, p. 74.  
 
ROSA sulphùrea Ait.

R. urceolis hemisphaericis glandulosis , laciniis calycis inaequalibus, pedunculis glabris , foliolis obovatis, obtusis, stipulis apice laceris. T.

Rosa sulphurea Ait. h. k. ed. 1. II. 201. Ej. ed. 2. III. 258. Wind, Sp. pl. II. 1065. Pers. Syn. II. 47. Poiret Encycl. VI. 289. Miss. Lawr. Ros. t. 77. Red. Ros. I, p. 29. c. ic, Andr. Ros. fasc. 17.
Rosa glaucophylla. Ehrh. Beitr. II. 69.

Caulis 4-6 pedalis (vidi 10 pedalem et ultra), ramesissimus. Aculei numerosi, ihaequales, majores uncinati. Folia 3-4 juga, foliolis plerisque obovatis, ceteris ovalibus, apice obtusis, simpli citer serra lis , eglandulosis, pubescentibus, glauco-viridescentibus, subparvis. Petioli tenuissime aculeolati. Stipulae antice irregulariter incisae s.lacerae et nonnunquam in foliola infima notabili metamorphosi transeuntes. Flores (nonnisi plenissimi habentur in hortis !) solitarii, inodori, lacte flavi, nutantes, breviter pedunculati. Urceoli magni, semiglobosi , familiam primo adspectu indicantes. Laciniae calycis glabrae, aliae simplices, aliae inciso-dentatae vel pinnatifidae. Fructus ob plenitudinem florum nunquam edit. Imo in plerisque hortis raro flores perfecte explicantur, sed vel monstrosi et corrupti apparent vel praematura decidunt. Sed semel vidi in borto rustico sub altis arboribus pomaceis in valle subhumido fruticem plusquam 10-pedalem, qui simul et semel ultra millenos flores optime explicatos protulit.
Habitare dicitur in Oriente. Affinis R. turbinatae, rapae, inermi et sim. Foliolis R. kamtschaticam imitat. Flores forma R.
centifoliae persimiles, colore nunquam degenerantes. Datur varietas pumila (sec. Thory in Red. Ros. T. II. p. 8.) nisi forte per errorem varietas R, borealis ab eodem pro tali habebatur? T.

Book  (1823)  Page(s) 189-190 vol. 2.  
 
The Yellow Rose - Lutea and Sulphurea The single yellow brier rose, lutea, is said to be a native of Germany, the south of France, and Italy; the single orange-coloured rose, bicolor, is an Austrian rose. That it was through these countries we first became acquainted with the yellow rose, there can be no hesitation in stating; but that they were originally brought from more eastern climates seems equally certain, since no ancient author that we have consulted mentions a yellow rose....Ludovico Verthema tells us in 1503 that he saw great quantities of yellow roses at Calicut from whence we have no doubt, both the single and double varieties were brought into Europe by the Turks, as Parkinson tells us in a work which he dedicated to Henrietta...that the double yellow rose "was first procured to be brought into England, by Master Nicholas Lete, a worthy merchant of London, and a great lover of flowers, from Constantinople, which (as we hear) was first brought thither from Syria, but perished quickly both with him....yet, afterwards it was sent to Master John de Franqueville, a merchant also of London...from which is sprung the greatest store that is now flourishing in this kingdom."
The double yellow rose, sulphurea, was unknown to us in 1597, but the single yellow brier was then common, as we find by Gerald. The single yellow rose, lutea, blossoms freely in most situations, excepting in the vicinity of London or other confined spots. the double yellow rose, where it blossoms freely, is one of the most elegant flowers that any country has produced....

Book  (1822)  Page(s) 183-184.  
 
May 14—After passing Fouzay and Demazan, two little villages, adorned each à la Provençal, with a ruined castle, we turned out of the road to Nismes at Remoulin, where the features of the country somewhat improved. Another mile and a half brought us to an indifferent inn within a ten minutes' walk of the Point du Gard. It is adapted for nothing more than a baiting-place for a few hours, and not at all of that description which so well-known a ruin would be in most cases capable of maintaining. The landlord, however, "a sallow, sublime sort of Werter-faced man," was civil, and inclined to do his best, and gathered us some double yellow roses, of a sort we had never seen before, to season his bad fare.

Book  (1821)  Page(s) 800.  
 
Rosier jaune soufré. (R. sulphurea Willd.) Du Levant. Tiges, branches et pétioles, armés d'aiguillons nombreux et géminés; rameaux longs et faibles, folioles galbres, vert pâle; en mai et juin, fleurs inodores jaune-soufre, 18 lignes de diamétre; ovaires gros et épineux. Variétés: le grand rosier jaune; en juin et juillet, fleurs doubles avortant presque toujours quand l'arbrisseau n'est point près d'un mur qui l'abrite des pluies...

Book  (1821)  Page(s) 285-286.  
 
Die gelbe Rose (Rosa sulphurea) kommt zwar sehr leicht fort, ist aber nicht besonders beliebt. Ihre Blumen haben das Unangenehme, daß sie gern auseinander schlitzen, und zuweilen gleichsam in zwey hälften blühen. Man hat vorgeschlagen, diese, um sie vor dem Zerplatzen zu sichern, mit einem leichten Tuche zu bedecken; allein, dieses scheint auch nicht viel zu helfen.

Translation:
The yellow rose (Rosa sulphurea) is easy to grow, but is not particularly popular. Their flowers have the unpleasant fact that they like to slit apart, and sometimes bloom in two halves, as it were. It has been proposed to cover these with a light cloth to keep them from bursting; alone, this doesn't seem to help much either.
 

Book  (1820)  Page(s) 46-47.  
 
ROSA sulphurea
[long list of synonyms: R. flava pleno flora, R. lutea maxima flore plena, R. lutea multiplex, R. hemisphaerica, R. lutea]

About four or five feet high, chiefly leafy at the extremeties. Branches yellowish green, or brownish, beset with unequal, scattered, pale prickles...Leaves of a dull glaucous green; leaflets 7...Flowers very large, of an exquisitely delicate, transparent yellow colour, always double...
This is by far the most splendid of the genus, has never been heard of in the single state, nor even near it....and its native country is still unknown. The earliest information we have of it is from Clusius [15th century Dutch botanist Carolus Clusius], who was first acquainted with its existence from the inspection of little, artificial, paper gardens, ornamented with shrubs of different sorts, among which were double yellow Roses. These, he ascertained, were brought from Constantinople....
Considerable difficulty is always experienced in making this expand or even produce its magnificent blossoms....