"Butterball. Rosa hispida hybrid, shrub to six feet with prickled arching branches that are covered with large creamy flowers in season. Small spinosissima type of foliage. Introduced 1950."

Dr Frank Leith Skinner papers
Province of Manitoba Archives

"Butterball - New single R. altaica hybrid. Large creamy yellow flowers followed by conspicuous big round reddish black fruits. Each .....$1.25"

Dropmore Hardy Plants 1951 p. 11