(Jul 2005)  
 
[From "Fruit with Potential for Wisconsin Farms", Dale Secher, Carandale Farm, and University of Wisconsin Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems]
Fruiting Rose (Rosa rugosa) is an overlooked fruit with excellent health value. Rose hips have long been recognized as a good source of vitamin C. Rugosa produces large, edible hips on vigorous, winter hardy and virtually pest free plants.
In the test plot is Jubilee, a Russian cultivar with an exceptionally high vitamin C content. It is supposed to be bigger and better tasting than more common Rugosa cultivars. This variety is supposed to reach a mature height of 4 to 6 feet. and be hardy to at least minus 40 degrees F. Plants in the test site are vigorous and appear to be pest-free. They produced red-purple, single flowers followed by bright red fruit that was one to one and a half inches in diameter. There was too little mature fruit to evaluate in 2004.
Rose hips can be dried for tea or used in jam, jelly, syrup, sauces, wine, vinegar, rose honey/sugar and rose water. It can also be used in oil for aromatic and cosmetic uses. It appears that fruiting rose is adaptable and can be grown sustainably.
 

(1975)  Page(s) 18.  
 
[From "Селśкое хозяйство России"]
Наибольшее значение в лечебном садоводстве имеет крупноплодный шиповник (Роза ругоза), с плодами размером с грецкий орех, сортов Юбилейный, Крупноплодный, Урожайный, а также Витаминный.

Translation:
The largest rose hips (Rosa rugosa) have the greatest value in therapeutic gardening with walnut-sized hips, sorts Jubilejnij, Krupnoplodnij [Large-fruited], Urozhajnij [Yielding], and Vitaminij.