Book  (1936)  Page(s) 88.  
 
Double Scots Roses. Rose [coloured]
True Double Red Semi-double, rose pink fading to edge of petals, which are reflexed. Claws yellow, back of petals paler. Tall, early, very floriferous.

Magazine  (24 Dec 1881)  Page(s) 612.  
 
Catalogue of Trees and Shrubs Cultivated in the Garden of Bitton Vicarage, December, 1830.
Rosa spinosissima
red

Book  (1833)  Page(s) 119.  
 
Icosandria Polygynia.
Rosa, Rose.
New garden varieties of the Spinosissima, in the Rosarium Scoticum
Double Red.

Book  (1832)  Page(s) 568.  
 
The following are the names of the Garden varieties of the Scotch Rose.
Double Scotch Roses.
true double red.

Website/Catalog  (1832)  Page(s) 28.  
 
HARDY ROSES. Scotch.
171. Double Red. 50 cts.

Magazine  (1822)  Page(s) 285, 295-296.  
 
[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: they [Dickson and Brown] 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...
p. 295: The first I consider as the True Double Red. It has its peduncles short, sometimes smooth, sometimes slightly hispid; the germen is small, and semi-globose; the leaves of the calyx are small; the bud has but little colour; the flowers are middle sized; expand well; and the petals, which are much notched, are somewhat reflexed, a circumstance which gives additional beauty to the flower; the inside of the petals is a fine rose-colour, sometimes slightly mottled, becoming gradually paler as it approaches the edges, where it is nearly white; the claws shew much yellow, and the outside of the petals is very pale. This is a very beautiful Rose; it grows tall, flowers plentifully, and opens early. The fruits are abundant, large, black, and compressed. The aculei on the branches are rather stronger than usual in Scotch Roses, they are much expanded as well as flattened at their bases; but I have another plant which produces flowers similar to those here described, in which the aculei are not so strong.
.....edges of the petals ultimately blanched, as in the two others.

Website/Catalog  (1816)  Page(s) 36.  
 
Trees and Shrubs.
ROSA, ROSE
[blooms from May through August]
spinosissima... Double Red Scotch

Website/Catalog  (1812)  Page(s) 65.  
 
ROSES.
Scotch
—Double Red

Book  (1808)  Page(s) fasc. 13, tab. 125.  Includes photo(s).
 
ROSA spinosissima, rubra; Var. flore pleno.
Red Thorny Rose; Double-flowered Variety.

Specific Character. Rose with nearly round seed-buds, smooth. Peduncles hispid. Flowers semi-double, and flesh-coloured. Leaves spreading. Leaflets ovate, ribbed, and notched at the edges. Stem and petioles very prickly.

This fine semi-double Rose is generally known by the appellation of the Double Red Scotch. It is evidently a thorny Rose, and powerfully resembles the spinosissima in most particulars except the flowers, whose pale delicate character reminds us so much of the Indica, that, were a flower detached from the plant, and compared with that ever-blooming species in a confined mode of culture, the resemblance would be found considerable. How or by whom it was first cultivated, we have not been able to learn with any degree of certainty; it must, therefore, with several other unavoidable deficiencies of the same description, pass on till the conclusion of the work, when we shall be better enabled to fill up these little chasms—at the same time that we give a Dissertation on the Genus.
Our figure was made from fine plants in the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Brames.