(1849)  Page(s) 225.  
 
New Plants, etc. from the Society's garden....
23. Paeonia Moutan: atrosanguinea.
Received from Mr. Fortune in May, 1846, marked "dark-purple," from Hong Kong, and from Shanghae as "very dark, nearly black."
Flowers, a good double, dark crimson; outer petals large and mostly entire; inner ones much smaller and lobed; foliage like that of the old P. papaveracea, but rather narrow and more pointed.
This is a very handsome, deep-blood coloured variety, the darkest in colour of all the Tree-paeonies yet in cultivation. [bloomed] May 18, 1849.

(1850)  Page(s) 73.  
 
"Rose Stocks" by John Saul, Durdham Down Nursery, Bristol.
(Communicated November 24, 1849.)
Blush and other Boursaults I notice merely to caution growers against using them: they are at all times extremely subject to mildew, and when worked are liable to decay; indeed they but seldom grow well.

(1903)  Page(s) 479.  
 
'Brighton Beauty,' 1891 , a bright red free - flowering Hybrid Tea , originating with Richard Bagg .

(1850)  Page(s) 72-3.  
 
"Rose Stocks" by John Saul, Durdham Down Nursery, Bristol.
(Communicated November 24, 1849.)
Celine is a very vigorous growing Hybrid China. Mr. Rivers considers it to be the best stock for the Cloth of Gold, and it suits many others equally well. In a general way it may be used for the same purposes and the same classes of roses as the Crimson Boursault and Manetti; it is very inferior to the latter, which must take precedence of all.

(1850)  Page(s) 72, 73.  
 
"Rose Stocks" by John Saul, Durdham Down Nursery, Bristol.
(Communicated November 24, 1849.)
p. 72) Many delicate Teas and chinas, which will live only a year or two on Crimson Boursault and Celine, will thrive pretty well upon the Manetti; but they are much better worked upon the Rosa indica (common Monthly), or grown upon their own roots.

p. 73) Rosa indica, or Monthly, I have already noticed. This is suitable for delicate Teas, Chinas, &c.; and if they were more extensively cultivated on this or on their own roots, amateurs would not have so frequently to lament their losses.

(1850)  Page(s) 71.  
 
"Rose Stocks" by John Saul, Durdham Down Nursery, Bristol.
(Communicated November 24, 1849.)
The Dog-rose (Rosa canina) is the kind of stock which is so extensively employed for roses in the nurseries of this country. It is almost exclusively used for standards and half-standards, and to an unlimited extent for dwarfs. All things considered, it is greatly superior to every other stock: with the exception of a few, which shall be hereafter noticed, most classes will grow well upon it. Provins, Gallica, Moss, Hybrid Provins, Alba, Hybrid China, Hybrid Bourbon, Damask, Austrian, Damask Perpetual, Hybrid Perpetual, with many of the free-growing Bourbon and Noisette kinds, will grow vigorously upon it. Many of the delicate varieties in the two latter classes, as well as a few sorts scattered through the others, will, however, not succeed upon this stock; but they are scarcely worth mentioning.

(1850)  Page(s) 73.  
 
"Rose Stocks" by John Saul, Durdham Down Nursery, Bristol.
(Communicated November 24, 1849.)
Duc Decazes is a vigorous growing Hybrid Bourbon, having many good qualities to recommend it, namely, free growth, firmness, and solidity of wood. I have seen Bourbons, Chinas, and many Teas and Noisettes succeed admirably on it.

(1846)  Page(s) 217-218.  
 
Sketch of a Visit to China, in Search of New Plants. By Mr. R. Fortune, Superintendent in the Hothouse Department in the Garden of the Society...
The gardens of the Mandarins [of Ningpo], although small, were extremely gay, particularly during the early months of the year; and, what was of more importance to me, contained a number of new plants of great beauty and interest. On entering one of the gardens on a fine morning in May [1844], I was struck with a mass of yellow flowers which completely covered a distant part of the wall; the colour was not a common yellow, but had something of buff in it, which gave the flowers a striking and uncommon appearance. I immediately ran up to the place, and to my surprise and delight found that I had discovered a most beautiful new yellow climbing rose. I have no doubt, from what I afterwards learned, that this rose is from the more northern districts of the Chinese empire, and will prove perfectly hardy in Europe. Another rose, which the Chinese call the “five-coloured,” was found in one of these gardens at this time; it belongs to the section commonly called China roses in this country, but sports in a very strange and beautiful manner. Sometimes it produces selfcoloured blooms—being either red or French white, and frequently having flowers of both on one plant at the same time—while at other times the flowers are striped with the colours already mentioned. This will also be as hardy as our common China rose.

(1846)  Page(s) 221.  
 
Sketch of a Visit to China, in Search of New Plants. By Mr. R. Fortune, Superintendent in the Hothouse Department in the Garden of the Society...
The Chinese five-coloured rose
Rosa sp. (a curious anemone flowered kind)

(1846)  Page(s) 217-218.  
 
The gardens of the Mandarins, although small, were extremely gay, particularly during the early months of the year; and, what was of more importance to me, contained a number of new plants of great beauty and interest. On entering one of the gardens on a fine morning in May [1844], I was struck with a mass of yellow flowers which completely covered a distant part of the wall; the colour was not a common yellow, but had something of buff in it, which gave the flowers a striking and uncommon appearance. I immediately ran up to the place, and to my surprise and delight found that I had discovered a most beautiful new yellow climbing rose. I have no doubt, from what I afterwards learned, that this rose is from the more northern districts of the Chinese empire, and will prove perfectly hardy in Europe. Another rose, which the Chinese call the “five-coloured,” was found in one of these gardens at this time; it belongs to the section commonly called China roses in this country, but sports in a very strange and beautiful manner. Sometimes it produces selfcoloured blooms—being either red or French white, and frequently having flowers of both on one plant at the same time—while at other times the flowers are striped with the colours already mentioned. This will also be as hardy as our common China rose.