Book  (1752)  Page(s) 604.  
 
The Provence Rose...
There are at least three Varieties of this Rose, which are promiscuously sold by the Nursery-men, under this Title; one of which is a low Shrub, seldom growing above three Feet high: the Flowers are much smaller, and the Buds rounder and even; so that before the Flowers open, they appear as if they had been clipp'd with Scissors. This Mr. Rea calls the dwarf red Rose; there are few Thorns on the Branches.

Book  (1724)  
 
...the red Belgick Rose, which is much taller than the common Dwarf, Red or Gilly Flower Rose, which grows lower than the ordinary Rose...

Book  (1665)  Page(s) 27.  
 
Rosa rubra humilis. The dwarf red Rose, by some called the Gilliflower Rose, groweth low, never riseth so high as the ordinary red Rose, like unto it, but with fewer thorns: the flowers are but small, yet thick and double, which in the bud before they open stand round and eaven, as if they had been clipt off with a pair of Cisers, but when they are fully blown, are fine round double Roses, of a pleasant Carnation colour, and of the sent of the ordinary red Rose.

Book  (1629)  Page(s) 414.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa rubra humilis sive pumilio. The dwarfe red Rose, or Gilloflower Rose. This Rose groweth alwayes low and small, otherwise in most respects like unto the ordinary redde Rose, and with few or no thornes upon it : the Flowers or Roses are double, thicke, small and close, not so much spread open as the ordinary red, but somewhat like unto the firft double white Rose before expressed ; yet in some places I have seene them more layde open then these, as they grew in my garden, being so even at the toppes of the leaves, as if they had been dipt off with a paire of sheeres, and are not fully of so red a colour as the red Province Rose, and of as small or weak sent as the ordinary red Rose, or not so much.