"The Garden" 21 October 1916, says "Rosa rugosa repens alba - This is a delightful variety for clothing a sloping bank. It also makes a grand weeping standard, as may be judged by the accompanying illusrationof a rather low-spreading standard on the lawn in Mr. E. A. Bowles' garden at Myddelton House, Waltham Cross. So freely are its starry White flowers produced that it has the effect of a snowstorm in June. Messrs. Paul and Son, Cheshunt, who have long made a feature of this Rose, recommend it to be grown as a half-standard on a 3-foot stem..."