Book  (1838)  Page(s) 331.  
 
IX. HYBRID BENGAL ROSES...D. FLOWERS OF A RED MORE OR LESS VIVID....4. The African, Boulotte, La Spandonck, Duke of Wellington. Branches, pretty thick. Thorns, mingled with glandulous bristles. Flowerstalks, usually glandulous below the floral leaves. Flowers, middle-sized, very double, demi-globular ; of a red-purple, shaded with dark purple.

Book  (1837)  Page(s) 133.  
 
Hybrides de Bengale. 1^ère Série...
( R. Boulotte, Cartier
(L'africaine, de quelques amateurs
(Velington, Calvert
(Nouvelle Victorine, Ang. Biz. [Bizard]
(Sublime de Tours, Nantes
(La Sublime, Mons. 
[synonyms]

Book  (1837)  Page(s) Sect. III, p. 52.  
 
Hybrid Chinas....L'Africaine, alias Boulotte, very beautiful, some fragrance. Purple-red, shaded dark purple-violet, 2 inches wide, double, semi-globular. The blooms closes up in the evenings like a sphere.

Book  (1837)  Page(s) 877.  
 
Rosa bengalensis. Roses du Bengale.
Hybrides qui ne fleurissent ordinairement qu'une fois par an.
85. l'Africaine. fleur pourpre nuancé.

Book  (1836)  Page(s) 283.  
 
9. Hybrides de Bengales... D. Fleurs d’un rouge plus au moins vif. .. L’Africaine; Vibert. Boulotte; Laffay. La Spaendonck; Cels. Duc de Wellington; Calvert. Rameoux assez gros; aiguillons entremélès de soies glanduleuses; peduncules ordinairement glanduleux au-dessous des bractées. fleurs moyennes, très doubles, demi-globuleuses, d’un rouge pourpre nuancé de pourpre violet foncé.

Magazine  (Jun 1834)  Page(s) 84.  
 
Among the 700 roses known to me...the most beautiful can be assumed as....
among the hybrids...Wellington, violet-red...

Website/Catalog  (1833)  Page(s) 56.  
 
Hybrid China Roses
835 Die Afrikanerin. Medium size, semi-globular, double, purple shaded with dark violet-purple. The bloom contracts in the evening like a sphere. ....20 Silbergroschen

Book  (1832)  Page(s) tab 189.  Includes photo(s).
 
Duke of Wellington Rose. Rosa Wellingtoni.
Stem much branched; branches rather slender, smooth, green, and glossy, bearing numerous strong prickles, that are slightly recurved, with small straight ones intermixed. Leaves generally producing 5 leaflets, or sometimes increased to 7: leaflets ovate, acute, sometimes slightly acuminate, sharply serrate at the edges, of a bright glossy green, and smooth on the upper side, underneath of a pale greyish colour, feather-nerved, and reticulately veined, the midrib armed with short rigid prickles, and the veins hairy, teeth sharp and spreading, tipped with a small brown rigid point: upper one on a long footstalk, the side ones on shorter ones. Petioles long and slender, prickly, and clothed with pedicellated glands, furrowed on the upper side, which is of a reddish purple, rounded underneath. Stipules attached to the base of the petioles, the points distinct, lanceolate, acute, neatly fringed with glands seated on pedicles. Flowers terminating the branch by 3 or 4, more or less, of a rich dark red, changing to a darker hue by age. Peduncles glandular, the terminal one bearing ‘no bractes: side ones generally bearing two a little above the base, sometimes one of them is a small leaf, producing three leaflets. Tube of the Calyx ovate, smooth and glossy, neither pubescentorglandular, except a very few glands at the very base: segments 5, ovate, keeled, tapering to a slender point, spreading or somewhat reflexed when in bloom, entire or sometimes more or less divided, glandular, and slightly pubescent on the outer side, densely woolly on the inside. Petals numerous, obovate, rounded at the ends, more or less cupped, becoming flatter by expansion : outer ones broadest, and most perfect, becoming gradually narrower and more imperfect inwards.
This beautiful hybrid Rose was raised from the seed of Rosa indica that had been fertilized by the pollen of Rosa damascena; there is scarcely a more splendid Rose grown, and its abundance of flowers all through the Spring and Summer is scarcely to be equalled, by which it takes most after the female parent, that flowers all the year through.
Our drawing was taken from a fine standard plant last Summer at the Nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, where it was, with numerous other hybrid varieties, and others of the same sort, growing luxuriantly and covered with flowers for months; the plants had been budded standard high, which caused their great luxuriance; the best stocks to work them on is Rosa tomentosa, as it is a very free strong growing sort; numerous plants ofitgrow the other side of Putney Heath, on the road to Kingston, by the side of the hedges; and in the hedges, and also in Coombe Wood, where there are numerous other species, with which it might be confused, if particular attention is not paid to its strength.
As we have nearly finished our Florist's Guide, we will try to persuade our esteemed friend, Mrs. Kearse, (late Miss Lawrance) to begin publishing the Roses again, as there are numerous very distinct new varieties and hybrid species that are well worth figuring; and would, on quarto size, make one of the finest works imaginable. Mr. Smith, of Coombe Wood, will have several very distinct and curious hybrids flower this season; amongst the rest, he has a seedling from Rosa odorata ß flavescens, with leaves like the yellow Austrian Rose; this must certainly be fine, and will doubtless be a beautiful yellow Rose.

 

Website/Catalog  (1831)  Page(s) 45.  
 
Hybrides de Bengale
605 L'Africaine ...2 francs , Diamètre 3, Pourpre violet

Magazine  (1831)  Page(s) 479.  
 
Duke of Wellington Rose. This beautiful hybrid was raised from a seed of the Rosa indica, which had been impregnated with the pollen of Rosa Damascena. There is scarcely a more splendid rose grown, and it is almost unequalled for the abundance of its flowers: these are of a rich dark red colour, and produced all through spring and summer. In its productiveness of blossoms it most resembles the female parent, Rosa indica; the common China, or as it is frequently called "monthly" rose, now happily a prevalent ornament to the fronts of houses all over England...The Wellington rose is published from Whitney's nursery.