Website/Catalog  (2006)  Page(s) 57.  
 
Rosa spinosissima var. nana Andr.

Book  (1997)  Page(s) 124.  
 
R. pimpinellifolia 'Nana' (R. spinosissima nana) Pre-1805... A delightful dwarf form of the Scotch rose...

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 166.  
 
location 112/4, R. pimpinellifolia L. var. nana Andr., PIMPINELLIFOLIAE, cream-white, double, solitary, late-blooming, vigorous, bushy, 1.2-1.5 m, medium-dark green small matte foliage, 7-9 leaflets, black-red medium size matte flat-rounded fruit, upright persistent sepals, ripe early

Book  (1823)  Page(s) 141.  
 
ROSA boreàlis. T.

R. urceolis subglobosis, pedunculis brevibus, segmentisque lanceolatis integerrimis glabris , foliolis ovatis, crenatis glabris, caule humili, ramulisque aculeatissimis , aculeis inaequalibus , rectis, albidis. T.

Rosa spinosissima пaпа. Аndr. Ros. fasc. 24.
Rosa spinosissima β. Ciphiana. Smith. Fl. britt. II. 5З7.
Rosa spinosissima var. flore marmoreo. Andr. 1. с. fasc. 9.
Rosa pimpinellifolia ti floribus variegatis. Thory; apud Redout. in Ros. T. I. p. 84.
Rosa spinosissima nana rubra. Andr. Ros. f. 40.

Magazine  (1822)  Page(s) 285, 288.  
 
From "Descriptions and Account of the Varieties of Double Scotch Roses, cultivated in the Gardens of England. By Joseph Sabine, Esq. F. R. S. &c. Secretary, p. 281-305]
p. 285: The first appearance of the Double Scotch Roses was in the nursery of Messrs. Dickson and Brown (now Dickson and Turnbull) of Perth, between twenty and thirty years since. I am indebted to Mr. Robert Brown, one of the partners of the firm at the above period, for the following account of their origin. In the year 1793, he and his brother transplanted some of the wild Scotch Roses from the Hill of Kinnoul, in the neighbourhood of Perth, into their nursery garden: one of these bore flowers slightly tinged with red, from which a plant was raised, whose flowers exhibited a monstrosity, appearing as if one or two flowers came from one bud, which was a little tinged with red; these produced seed, from whence some semi-double flowering plants were obtained; and by continuing a selection of seed, and thus raising new plants, they in 1802 and 1803 had eight (*As nearly I have been able to ascertain, the eight sorts were the small white, the small yellow, the lady's blush, another lady's blush with smooth footstalks, the red, the light red, the dark marbled, and the large two-coloured.) good double varieties to dispose of; of these they subsequently increased the number, and from the stock in the Perth garden the nurseries both of Scotland and England were first supplied.....

p. 288: The Small Double White is a plant of moderate size. In its flowers the peduncles are small and thin, the germen semi-globose, and the sepals narrow; the bus shews itself of a greenish white colour, with a slight crimson tinge; the expanded flower is not large, more than semi-double, with small petals in the centre, the claws of which being yellow, they give a tinge of that colour to the middle of the flower. As the flower decays, the petals lose their arrangement, and become apparently broken. The fruits, when ripe, are black and globose, but not abundant. This is rather an indifferent variety as to beauty, but it blossoms freely, the flowers opening about the middle of the season of the Scotch Roses. A bad representation of it is given in Andrew's Roses, under the name of R. spinosissima nana, or Dwarf Thorny Rose.

Book  (1812)  Page(s) fasc. 24, tab. 122.  Includes photo(s).
 
ROSA spinosissima, nana
Dwarf Thorn Rose.

Specific Character. Rose with round seed-buds, flattened, smooth, and large; peduncles smooth; the leaflets are
egg-shaped, notched, and smooth; flowers white and spreading; the stem and branches very prickly; the prickles straight, and nearly white.

This humble shrub is known by the appellation of the Dwarf Scotch Rose, but is very different from the spinosissima already delineated.
Our figure represents, what we frequently meet with, single and semi-double on the same plant. There is also another variety with completely double flowers, but in no other particular different from the single. They are cultivated as three distinct Roses, and flower early in the season. The blossoms are of short duration, but the succession is quick and abundant.