Book  (Nov 1994)  Page(s) 99.  Includes photo(s).
 
virginiana ...'Alba'. A beautiful white-flowered rose, having less shiny leaves than Rosa virginiana. The whole bush reveals its albinoid derivation, even carried as far as the stems, which are green instead of brown; the foliage is also light green. So far it has remained compact with me, but that is no doubt because I have it only as a budded plant on a rootsdtock of R. canina. The heps, in common with those of the species, lose their calyces, but are surmounted by a tiny tuft of grey-white hairs. The foliage does not colour much in autumn. Its various characters suggest that it may be a hybrid with R. carolina. Willmott, Plate 198.

Article (magazine)  (1956)  Page(s) 123.  
 
Rosa virginiana was one of the American rose species that I used many years ago with rather indifferent results; however in the spring of 1950 I had in bloom, in pots, plants of R. damascena Celsiana, R. d. rubrotincta and a double white form of R. alba as well as a plant of R. virginiana alba. The flowers of the latter were fertilized with the pollen of the three old roses and from the seed secured about twenty seedlings germinated in 1952. Two of these seedlings that flowered for the first time this year had double flowers, one had white flowers resembling R. alba while the other had clear pink flowers like Celsiana in form and only slightly smaller; the foliage of all these R. virginiana alba hybrids is clean looking and nice. Pollen from these hybrids was used this summer on some of the old roses with apparently satisfactory results

Magazine  (1941)  Page(s) 89.  
 
The white blossoms of Rosa virginiana var. alba are carried on red branches and the hips are vase shaped. In Winter the canes, without thorns, turn a brilliant magenta over carmine, a brighter hue even than the red twigs of bloodtwig,...

Magazine  (1939)  Page(s) 98.  
 
Rosa virginiana alba Willmott, Ge. Rosa, 1:t. opp. p. 198 (1911)

Book  (1922)  Page(s) 48.  
 
Another of these dwarf wild roses is R. lucida alba, or R. virginiana alba, with shining leaves and lovely white flowers, followed by decorative and enduring red fruits or pips.

Book  (1919)  Page(s) 447.  
 
Rosa virginiana Miller...Var. ALBA has white flowers, and differs also from the type in the more numerous flowers and more glandular flower-stalks and calyx ; leaflets paler green, with leaflets and midribs downy. Said to have been discovered in the United States about 1868, but believed by Prof. Sargent to be an escape from cultivation and a hybrid of garden origin.

Magazine  (1897)  Page(s) 306.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa lucida is the well-known dwarf wild rose. The rare and beautiful white form, the flower of which we now illustrate, was found more than thirty years ago at Cherryfield, Me. There was but a single plant, which the finder transferred to his garden in the vicinity, where it grew vigorously and from which it was more or less disseminated in the immediate neighborhood. As far as known the only plants in existence are one at Miss Ellen Holway's, Machias, Me., three at W. H. Cowing's, West Roxbury, Mass., and a batch of little cuttings and grafts in the possession of Jackson Dawson at the Arnold Arboretum, Boston

Magazine  (1896)  Page(s) 173.  
 
On this date also, Walter H. Cowing exhibited Rosa lucida alba, a pure white and very fragrant variety of our ordinary Rosa lucida, and for this a First Class Certificate of Merit was awarded.

Book  (1847)  Page(s) 160.  
 
Semi-double white. Medium size, fragrant. Rosa virginiana alba.

Book  (1765)  Page(s) 80.  
 
Il y a la rose foncée; l’obscure que quelques - uns appellent violette , la blanche éclatante , celle qui est d’un blanc sale, appellée de Virginie :