(May 1849)  Page(s) 76.  
 
Boursault....Amadis, or Crimson - Deep purplish crimson, large and semi-double, cup-shaped flowers.
 

(13 Nov 1852)  Page(s) 98.  
 
The following Bourbon Roses are strong growers, not well adapted for beds, or standards in beds, but excellent sorts for pillars and low walls, or for filling up the bottom of a rose wall, where stronger climbers are apt to get naked:— Amenaide,....

(1851)  Page(s) 382.  
 
Archduke Charles, Cramoisie Superieure, Prince Charles and Abbé Mioland have four shades of crimson which assist each other very much in a bed, and I would rather have the four mixed than any one of them...but the four have the bad habit of making one or two strong shoots from the bottom if they have their own way. This should never be allowed in a bed of China roses, otherwise the symmetry of the bed is all gone. Stop the strong shoots when they are under four inches, so as to keep them close and bushy to the ground, as they never look rich or well managed if you can push a walking stick into any part of the bed without touching a shoot.

(May 1849)  Page(s) Vol. II, p 77.  
 
Ayrshire Roses...Ayrshire Queen - Dark purple-crimson, large and semi-double, cup-shaped.

(Jul 1849)  Page(s) 209.  
 
Ayrshire splendens, a fine example of a pillar of roses; immense clusters of white, edged with red, myrrh-scented roses; the branches, hanging gracefully from the pillar, gave to this specimen such a lovely appearance that wo could have stood for hours to admire it.

(1852)  Page(s) 212.  
 
In an article on Pillar Roses by D. Beaton: "It is well known that I prefer all the strongest of the hybrid perpetuals - those that do for pillars on their own roots - but for pillars all my Bourbons would be budded on Manetti rose...There are, however, comparatively, but few roses in each section of perpetuals that are really fitted to be made into pillars, whereas more than two-thirds of the hybrid Chinas and hybrid Bourbons...are naturally better adapted...To begin with the Hybrid Perpetuals: ...Baronne Prevost, a true rose colour, and the largest of roses.

(23 May 1850)  Page(s) 114.  
 
Beauty of Billiard, crimson; hybrid China.

(1854)  Page(s) 23.  
 
...let us now suppose a case in which a gentleman has bought or built a new house, the garden, and all the rest of the land being also new to planting, and that he read of the splendid Pillar Roses at Bank Grove, in The Cottage Gardener; if he has any taste at all for gardening, and if he has not, let us hope he is not married, he would surely wish to have one Pillar Rose, if only one, but having heard that Blairii No. 2, one of the finest for pillars, is so apt to get bare below, and turn shabby, after a few years....
Here The Cottage Gardener steps in, and thinks, if he can make it out, as plain as can be, that Blairii No. 2 can be so managed, that nothing but sheer inattention to the simplest rule can cause any one to fail with it, all other Pillar Roses may be taken in hand with a certainty. It is more than likely, that any of the large growers can supply plants of this Rose from cuttings, as it comes from cuttings in the spring as easily as a Verbena, that is, if the old plant is forced, and cuttings made of the young shoots; at all events, wo must have a good, healthy, young plant of it, on its own roots, to begin the pillar, and good fresh loam, with a spadeful or two of solid rotten dung to plant it in, und then we must prune it on the close system, down to three or four eyes, and water it occasionally through the first summer.
all the pruning in tbe world will not save a few Roses from ultimate failure, if they are first brought up with only one strong shoot in the centre, and Blairii No. 2 is one of them....
And now, as to how to deal with the bare Pillar Rose, Blairii No. 2. There are only two ways to deal effectually with such an extreme case. I have seen palliatives enough tried and fail with such instances. It is of no use to boat about the bush in such cases; the first of the two remedies is the most effective, but goes hardest against the grain—it is to cut down the whole pillar to within one foot of the ground, to renew the bed, and to water frequently with strong manure-water for the next half-dozen years, when this very pillar would be ten feet high, and in the highest possible health, providing the roots are good. The second plan is, to bend "down the pillar very carefully, as low as possible, next February: to keep it down in that position, tied to stakes, for a season, and perhaps two seasons, until suckers were forced from the bottom, then to cover the naked parts with them, and ultimately, the old rose to be only a mere centre piece to the renewed pillar.

(1849)  Page(s) Vol. II, p.76.  
 
Boursault....Blush or De L'Isle _ Blush, rose centre, very large and full, globular.

(1852)  Page(s) 99.  
 
Donald Beaton. "Bougere is the hardiest of them all [Tea-scented China Roses], and as good as any against a wall. On a dry sultry morning, it is as sweet as a fresh opened tea-caddy, but it must have a wall to support its immense blooms; the colour I cannot tell, and I never yet saw it rightly described in any book or catalogue; pale rosy bronze they call it, but, like the countryman, they might as well say that its huge blossoms were as big as a piece of chalk."