Website/Catalog  (1917)  Page(s) 11.  
 
Rosa Wichuraiana, Memorial Rose single white, 3 to 4 ft....$ .15

Website/Catalog  (1917)  Page(s) 13.  
 
Rosa Wichuraiana Memorial Rose single white, 3 to 4 ft., extra heavy...10 $ 1.50, 100 $ 12.00

Magazine  (1916)  Page(s) 34-35, 42.  
 
p. 34: Assemblée générale du Dimanche 16 juillet 1916 .... — M. F. Morel, pépiniériste à Lyon-Yaise, continue toujours avec succès la série de ses présentations mensuelles.....  R. Wichuraiana type. —- M. Lavenir, en présentant ce Rosier, fait remarquer que son introduction ne remonte qu’à une vingtaine d’années. Il a été le point de départ de toutes les nombreuses variétés cultivées. Ses rameaux peuvent atteindre 4 à 5 mètres de hauteur, ils sont rampants, les fleurs sont blanches, simples, disposées en grappes le long des tiges. Arbuste à utiliser pour garnir les talus, rochers et autres emplacements accidentés.

p. 42: Assemblée générale du Dimanche 15 octobre 1916 ...— C’est le tour de M. Monachon, pépiniériste à Sathonay (Ain), de présenter un certain nombre de tiges d’arbustes, parmi lesquels nous remarquons ... Rosa Wichuraiana type et un de ses hybrides bien connu, R. W. Dorothy Perkins, variété très florifère, sarmenteuse, très vigoureuse, fleur rose, moyenne, pleine et odorante. Greffé sur des tiges très hautes, on obtient avec cette variété des Rosiers pleureurs, propres à isoler dans les pelouses.

Website/Catalog  (1914)  Page(s) 43.  
 
Wichuraiana and its Hybrids.
The varieties comprising this class are of unique and charming beauty, and form lovely objects in the garden while in bloom. They are suitable for rockery, sloping banks, pillars, pergolas, arches, &c. They are very lovely grown as standards.
Weeping Standards, 4 to 5 feet, 5/- each; 5 to 6 feet, 7/6 to 10/6 each; 6 feet and over, 10/6 to 15/- each.
Wichuraiana... Dawson, 1893, creeper. Pure white, single, and borne in clusters; small, very glossy foliage, most useful for rock work. The original of this class.

Website/Catalog  (1914)  Page(s) 5.  
 
Rosa Wichurana Wichurana, white, single, golden-yellow stamens, good for festoon; late-blooming

Book  (1913)  Page(s) 100.  Includes photo(s).
 
Wichuraiana Ramblers. By Dr. A. H. Williams, Vice-President N.R.S.
The wichuraiana Ramblers fall naturally into two well defined groups:
II. The Late, composed of those whose main flowering season lies in the month of July. They mostly have a strain of multiflora in their parentage. The trusses are usually very large, consisting often of an immense number of small flowers, which may be either singles or double rosettes.
Late Flowering Single Varieties.
Wichuraiana (type).—Of rampant, flexible, prostrate growth. The foliage is very beautiful, of pale glossy green. Single flowers in moderate trusses towards end of July or beginning of August. Colour is purest white, with fine golden stamens. Fragrant.

Magazine  (Nov 1912)  Page(s) 438-439.  
 
Quand on eut introduit dans les cultures le Rosa Wichuræ, actuellement Wichuraïana, qui, au point de vue des caractères botaniques, est apparenté de très près aux Rosiers multiflores, il fut d’abord croisé en Amérique, par Manda, puis en France par M. Barbier, qui en obtinrent de très jolies variétés, à rameaux sarmenteux, mais non remontantes. On les emploie beaucoup aujourd’hui, greffées sur haute tige, comme Rosiers « pleureurs ».
Or, l’hybridation du Rosier de Wichuræ a fait apparaître un caractère physiologique que Crépin ne pouvait pas deviner quand il en a donné la description. Ce caractère est le suivant. Le Rosa Wichuraïana, croisé par les Rosiers de jardins (Thés, Bengales et autres), ne semble pas pouvoir produire des variétés analogues aux Polyanthas nains.
Viviand-Morel.

Book  (14 Dec 1911)  Page(s) Vol. 1, Part IV, p. 59-60.  Includes photo(s).
 
19 — ROSA WICHURAIANA Crép.
Rosa Wichuraiana : caule longe repente, ad nodos saepe radicante ; aculeis sparsis, conformibus, modice robustis, leviter falcatis; foliolis 5-7, oblongis, obtusis, parvis, subcoriaceis, simpliciter serratis, utrinque viridibus, glabris, facie nitidulis ; stipulis adnatis, laciniatis, apice libero ovato ; rhachi glabra ; floribus multis, paniculatis ; pedicellis nudis vel parce setosis ; bracteis lanceolatis, laciniatis, parvis ; calycis tubo globoso, nudo ; lobis ovatis, acuminatis, simplicibus, dorso glabris ; petalis albis, parvis, cuneatis, apice emarginatis ; stylis villosis, coalitis, distincte protrusis ; fructu globoso, parvo, nudo, rubro, serotino ; sepalis deciduis.
R. Wichuraiana Crépin in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. vol. xxv. pt. 2, p. 189 (1886). — Sargent in Garden and Forest , vol. iv. p. 570, fig. 89, p. 569 (1891). — Bean in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, vol. xxii. p. 99, fig. 28 (1897). — Mottet in Rev. Hort. 1898, p. 104, figs. 45, 46. — Rehder in Bailey, Cycl. Am. Hort. vol. iv. p. 1550 (1902).
R. Luciae Franchet & Savatier, Enum. FI. Jap. vol. i. p. 135 (ex parte) (1875) ; vol. ii. p. 344 (ex parte) (1876). — Hooker f. in Bot. Mag. vol. cxxi. t. 7421 (1895).

Stem trailing widely, often rooting at the nodes ; prickles scattered, uniform, moderately robust, slightly hooked. Leaflets 5-7, small, oblong, obtuse, rather firm, bright green, shining above, glabrous on both surfaces, simply toothed; petioles glabrous; stipules adnate, laciniated, with small, ovate, free tips. Flowers many, panicled ; pedicels naked or slightly setose; bracts small, lanceolate, laciniated. Calyx-tube small, globose, naked; lobes ovate-acuminate, ½ in. long, simple, glabrous on the back. Petals small, pure white, cuneate at the base, emarginate at the apex. Styles villous, united in a distinctly protruded column. Fruit small, globose, naked, bright red, not ripening till late autumn ; sepals deciduous.

Rosa Wichuraiana was named after the German botanist Wichura, who accompanied the German expedition to China and Japan in 1859-61. He died in 1866. The Rose came to England about 1890 by way of the United States, where it had already become popular and was largely grown, notably in the Franklin Park, Boston, where it was employed with great success in covering banks and rocky slopes. It had been sent from Berlin by Louis Spath in 1888 to the Arnold Arboretum as Rosa bracteata , but proved to be Rosa Wichuraiana of Crépin, who first called attention to its distinctive characters in 1886. At that date it was already in cultivation at Munich and Brussels. It had previously been confounded with Rosa Luciae Franch. & Rochebr., and still earlier with Rosa sempervirens L. Although in a dried state it is difficult to distinguish Rosa Wichuraiana from some multiflora varieties, from a horticultural point of view it exhibits some very marked differences, such as its decumbent habit and the late period of its flowering, which is prolonged long after the Rose season has passed. It is one of the most valuable of our recent introductions, for its prostrate growth, its bright, glistening, box-like foliage and its abundant small white flowers with delicious wild-rose fragrance. In the type the branches, which lie closely upon the ground, often extend to fifteen feet or more ; but hitherto this distinctive characteristic has not been transmitted to the hybrids, which are inclined to be more rampant and to throw up strong erect or arching branches instead of the creeping and trailing growths of the type ; the box-like leaflets have likewise disappeared. The aim now should be to retain these good qualities, and with a Rose which hybridises so freely this ought not to be an insurmountable difficulty. Although none of the hybrids have preserved the main Wichuraiana features, they form nevertheless a very beautiful race of Roses, which has been a great addition to our gardens. Among the most notable of them is Jersey Beauty , raised in New Jersey by Manda in 1899, with almost persistent foliage and large, single flowers, which in the bud state are pale chrome in colour and change to cream white in the expanded flower. René André resulted from a cross with L'Idéal, and has inherited something of the soft sunset colouring together with the tea scent of its parent. Perhaps the greatest favourite of all the Wichuraiana hybrids is the charming Dorothy Perkins, whose beautiful pure pink flowers resemble a clustered Rose de Meaux . It is impossible here to enumerate all the hybrids of this Rose which are deserving of notice, and many of which are extremely beautiful, although we are now only at the beginning of what may be accomplished in this direction by judicious hybridising. There is a great future for Wichuraiana hybrids, and we may confidently hope to see a glorified race retaining the foliage, habit and constitution of the type together with variety of colour and the true Rose scent. In the type we have the wild-rose odour, and René André is tea-scented, but in no hybrid so far have we the exquisite fragrance of the Provence Roses.
Roses vary as much in perfume as they do in colour ; each has its own distinctive scent, except in the instances, sad to say far too frequent among the newer Roses, where the flowers are absolutely devoid of any fragrance whatever.

Magazine  (Sep 1911)  Page(s) 336.  
 
Le Rosa Wichuraïana Crép. fait partie du groupe des Synstylées; il a pour habitat la Chine et le Japon. Il montre une inflorescence pyramidale. Ses fleurs sont simples. M. Crépin fait remarquer que ses tiges sont couchées sur la terre et atteignent jusqu’à a mètres de longueur. Le Garden and Forest a appelé autrefois l'attention des jardiniers sur le parti qu'on peut tirer de ce Rosier en raison de ce mode de croissance. Ses tiges couvrent le sol, dit-il, comme le ferait un gros paillasson. La direction du Parc de l’emploie abondamment pour les roches et les talus qu’il faut rapidement de verdure et on en un bon résultat. Le Rosa Wichuraïana Crép. comprend les variétés suivantes: fimbriata, poteriifolia adenophora, cratægicarpa et yokoscensis.

Book  (1911)  Page(s) 70.  
 
The Wichuraiana Hybrids.
The following list includes most of the best Wichuraiana Roses to date (1910):
Wichuraiana. — This is the parent of all the Hybrids, and was imported from Japan in about 1873. It has clear white single flowers, with beautiful conspicuous golden stamens. These are borne in clusters very freely from the end of July to the end of October. The stems are more trailing than those of its descendants, and its leaves are smaller.