Article (newsletter)  (Nov 2017)  Page(s) 9.  
 
In China he [E. H. Wilson] came across R. hugonis on a narrow arm of the Min Valley, a rose recently sent to England in 1899 by Father Hugo Scallon, the only non-fading yellow rose Wilson saw there. (It produces black hips that drop early.) 

Article (misc)  (2005)  Page(s) 110, Table 5.1.  
 
R. hugonis : diploid

Book  (1 May 2003)  Page(s) 352.  
 
Rosa hugonis Hemsley. Bot. Mag. 131: t. 8004. 1905.
huang qiang wei
Shrubs small, ca. 2.5 m tall, robust when old; prickles scattered, straight, to 1.2 cm, stout, flat, gradually tapering to a broad, elliptic base, base often ca. as long as prickle, intermixed with smaller prickles and bristles. Leaves including petiole 4–8 cm; stipules elongate, mostly adnate to petiole, free parts short, auriculate, glabrous, margin sparsely glandular-pubescent; rachis and petiole glandular when young; leaflets 5–13, ovate, elliptic, or obovate, 8–20 × 5–12 mm, glabrous, abaxially with prominent midvein, adaxially concave, margin entire or acutely serrate, apex acuminate. Hypanthium subglobose, abaxially glabrous. Sepals 5, lanceolate, ca. 2 × as long as hypanthium, abaxially glabrous, adaxially slightly pubescent. Petals 5, light yellow, broadly obovate, base broadly cuneate, apex emarginate. Styles free, shorter than stamens, slightly exserted, white villous. Hip purple-red or black-brown, depressed-globose, 1.2–1.5 cm in diam., glabrous, shiny, with persistent, reflexed sepals; pedicel 1–2 cm, glabrous. Fl. May–Jun, fr. Jul–Aug.
Scrub at forest margins, thickets, open slopes; 600--2300 m. Gansu, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan.

Book  (2002)  Page(s) 84.  
 
R. hugonis Rated 8.5

Website/Catalog  (31 Dec 1998)  Page(s) 29.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (Dec 1998)  Page(s) 53.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa hugonis . syns ‘Father Hugo’s Rose’, ‘Golden Rose of China’.
John Mattock believes that this rose is much older than the given date. It is a tallish and upright, branching shrub to 7 ft (2.2m) tall, and made up of brown stems with many sharp, flattish thorns. The fern-like leaves are composed of seven to thirteen leaflets. The flowers are single, bright yellow and borne singly all along the young, wiry lateral branches in late spring and early summer; their texture is silky and sometimes they appear slightly crumpled, Approximately 2 in (5 cm) across, they are followed by small purple-colored hips later in late summer and autumn. This species has much to commend it; it is more refined than most of the other single yellow roses. It does not seem to mind impoverished soil and is quite hardy in most climates. Zones 4-10. Circa 1899. Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.

Book  (Mar 1998)  Page(s) 7.  
 
Rosa hugonis means "Father Hugo's rose," from the name of the missionary who discovered it in China in 1899.

Magazine  (1998)  Page(s) 26. Vol 92, Part 1.  
 
Peter Harkness: In the Christmas 1997 issue, John Mattock questioned whether 1899 was the right introduction date for R. hugonis. Mr. H. R. Darlington, later the Society's President, wrote in the 1917 Annual that 'It was raised from seeds sent to Kew from North Central China about the year 1899'. In The Botanical Magazine in 1905, when it received a description and specific rank, W. Botting Hemsley wrote that the seeds came from Father Hugo Scallan, a Roman Catholic missionary in West China and that plants were raised from the seeds in 1899 at Kew where they proved to be fairly hardy. The name given to the rose is in his honour. The N.R.S. Official Catalogue of Roses for 1914 states that it was introduced by the firm of James Veitch (of King's Road, Chelsea) in 1908. Trees & Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles (1981 reprint) states 'The ... plants at Kew ... are the originals from the seeds sent by Father Hugh Scallan'. This last source mentions that seeds were also collected by a fellow missionary, Giraldi, and sent to Germany where plants were raised. One wonders whether the rose was growing in the wild or in someone's garden when Fathers Hugh and Giraldi came across it, and, if the latter, whether it already had a Chinese garden name. It acquired one, of a sort, a few years later, being launched with a great fanfare by American nurseries as 'The Golden Rose of China'. Peter Harkness

Book  (1997)  Page(s) 122, 123.  Includes photo(s).
 
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Page 123: R. hugonis, Golen Rose of China China 1899... Large quantities of medium-sized, primrose-yellow flowers...

Book  (1997)  Page(s) 11, 16, 17.  Includes photo(s).
 
Page 11: [Photo]
Page 16: 'Father Hugo's Rose' ... one of the first species roses to bloom. Complementary planting: 'Johnson's Blue' geraniums, which create a complementary carpet of sky blue flowers ... the 'Golden Rose of China' admired for its lemon yellow blooms and exquisite fern-leaf foliage.
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