Article (newsletter)  (Nov 2017)  Page(s) 10.  
 
Wilson also chanced across a “pink to rose” form, R. moyesii var. rosea, “very distinct from the type,” also known as R. moyesii fargesii. The leaves are also larger than those of the red. In fact, when grown from seed, the flowers most often are pink. A shrub six to ten feet in height, it grows abundantly in thickets and on the edges of woods. It was named for Reverend J. Moyes, a missionary in Western China

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 160.  
 
location 133/1, R. moyesii Hemsl. & Wils. 'Fargesii Rolfe, CINNAMOMEAE, 1900 (?), bright carmine-red, single, large, cluster-flowered, vigorous, upright, arching, broad, to 3 m, many prickles, light-medium green small-medium matte foliagered canes, 9-11 leaflets, dark orange-red very large matte-glossy glandular bottle-shaped fruit, upright persistent sepals

Website/Catalog  (1986)  Page(s) 34.  
 
Rosa fargesii* Single flowers in the mould of Rosa moyesii.  Clear pink with prominent stamens.  Fruit large, orangey-red and flagon-shaped.  Growth dense and bushy.  1913. P. W. F. Pot (S) 8 x 5’.  

Book  (1971)  Page(s) 127.  
 
[In a discussion of 'Nevada'] It has been suggested that instead of the normal R. moyesii, Dot may have used its tetraploid variety, R. moyesii fargesii; but while this would account for [Nevada's] tetraploid character, it still cannot account for its remontance.

Book  (1947)  Page(s) 198.  
 
Moyesii var. Fargesii (species) China, has flowers somewhat smaller [than R. moyesii], of deeper red, is less tall, has rounded leaflets of dark green, larger fruits of coral-red, and is equally beautiful. Hesse 1917..Tall growth. Without scent...June-July. Hardy.

Book  (1939)  Page(s) 59.  
 
Frank Mason,  NZ.  Species and Hybrids
Rosa Moyesii and Rosa Fargesii are evidently from the same parentage, and R. Highdownensis may be the same. These three are beautiful at all times, and when in fruit it would be hard to find anything finer. I have grown Moyesii from seed repeatedly and nearly always get the same results in colour-light pink to red-but on two occasions the colour has been better than the imported plant, and one of them berries more freely. Fargesii has repeated itself from seed, but has never given a Moyesii. Highdownensis from seed has never been as bright as the parent.

Book  (1939)  Page(s) 59.  
 
Rosa Moyesii and Rosa Fargesii are evidently from the same parentage, and R. Highdownensis may be the same. These three are beautiful at all times, and when in fruit it would be hard to find anything finer. I have grown Moyesii from seed repeatedly and nearly always get the same results in colour—light pink to red—but on two occasions the colour had been better than the imported plant, and one of them berries more freely. Fargesii has repeated itself from seed, but has never given a Moyesii. Highdownensis from seed has never been as bright as the parent.

Book  (1929)  Page(s) 32.  
 
Fargesii. — A Chinese Rose with large rose-pink flowers and numberless bright red fruits; bushes 6 feet or more high.

Magazine  (1925)  Page(s) 334.  
 
Rosa Fargesii
In The Gardeners' Chronicle for January 3, 1925, page 8, an unnamed correspondent calls attention to the misleading character of the name Rosa Fargesii, the binomial Latin form of which conveys the impression that this is a species of Rose new to science, when in fact it is merely one of the pink-flowered forms of Rosa Moyesii.

Magazine  (1923)  Page(s) liii.  
 
Mr. J. C. Allgrove, Langley: Rosa Fargesii, a deep-rose species from China.